EVE General Discussion

From your own article:

"CCP can run all the sales they want, but unless players en masse feel there’s a need for a quick infusion of liquid isk, it won’t change players’ desire to spend their cash buying PLEX from CCP."

So no, people aren't going to buy cheaper plex because the need for plex is not there to support it at any price. The deflationary pressure of items in this game, and the lack of expensive end game goals now have led us to no longer need isk infusion.

Again, we need Content. PVP, PVE, PVB, PBJ anything, Content.

Characters, soon to be re balanced capital ships, citadels, etc.

PLEX used only for game time and not exchangable to anything else, as it was when I started playing, will not make it magically lose its value, maybe it will only slower the climb rate, but if these speculators are so clever, I dont expect even that. There will be those sell orders for 1B as long as there is less PLEX than people are willing to buy.

I think it is wrong that part of your post will be seen as irrelevant and will be ignored by most of us including CCP. All I will say that it is great that you are able to pay for a sub and remain in the game, some people may not be as fortunate. Based on the responses I have had I don't think anyone will be prepared to do anything to make it easier for people to plex 2 or more accounts.

PLEX is not a "privilege". Its a commodity that is bought into the universal game world with RLM.
Ingame, it is acquired from them with ingame money earned rightfully from the game environment.

There is nothing "privileged" about any of that.
Any and all PLEX are sourced from CCP with RLM.
This "privilege" is extended to anyone, and everyone, who pays for it, and hence is no privilege at all, as it is available to everyone.

The only difference between you and other people buying PLEX either outside of game, or within it, is they live in countries, or work jobs, that earn more or less than you in yours, or they earn more or less than you ingame.

So the privilege is vested in them living in a country in which they can earn more than you, or they have jobs which earn more than you, or they have less dependant costs than you, or they play harder ingame than you, or they play smarter ingame than you.

None of which have to do with PLEX itself being anykind of "privilege".

In anycase, since you dont buy PLEX from outside of the game, nor within it, you have nothing to do with the PLEX cycle.

He said it's not needed. He says that if he doesn't need it, then no-one else really does either.
Put another way: the price of PLEX — in or out of game — is not a problem.

No. That's part of why you missed the point.

Because you fail to take the whole into account. That's the consistent error you've made all through your continued failure to construct a coherent argument.

There is no play for free.

Many people say they can not afford PLEX at it's current price, yet it is roughly 20% more than it was last month. It's not like it is double or triple cost now. I keep wondering how did these people afford anything at all? If you were barely able to grind for PLEX when it was say, 900 mil, how did you buy ships, modules, etc.? And, since the PLEX is going to get more expensive on the long run, how will you deal with it once it hits 2 billion?

New players are in bad situation, but so was I when I began playing back in 2008. PLEX was less than 300 million, but it was way harder to earn that, so I don't see how are we in any different position today?

Think of it as being cheap right now...

If you're willing to grind for a PLEX you're welcome to do so, don't assume that other people feel the same. IMHO playing to pay is one of the fastest ways to kill the primary purpose of playing games, fun.

PCU is not subs, the relationship between them is tenuous at best when you consider the use of alt accounts for the purposes of scouting, cynos, trading etc.

Intervention by CCP in the PLEX market is something that should only be done after considerable deliberation and discussion of the ramifications of doing so by their in-house team of economists, who incidentally have a far deeper knowledge of Eve's economy than you. It is not a step they would take lightly as it goes against the idea of a player driven economy, which is a mainstay of Eve.

Online numbers are down from historical highs due an infinite number of reasons. Those reasons might include the price of PLEX, changes in the game, the state of the real world economy, real life in general, solar flare activity, alien mind rays from Alpha Centauri, the price of tinfoil haberdashery, Goons (grr) etc; there again, they might not.

The only people that are going to have anything close to a clue as to why the PCU is lower than it has been in the past are CCP. That said, the PCU appears to be fairly stable at the moment, at least for the last few months.

If and when CCP decides that PLEX prices are a problem they will look into what can be done about it, and whether or not doing anything at all would be a good idea in the first place; that's why they have a team of economists on call.

PLEX is not a "commodity," it's a series of bits in memory somewhere on a server bought into the game universe with algorithms.

Actually, since we're going to be obnoxiously literal and obtuse to idiom, PLEX is just a bunch of vibrating sub-atomic matter.