EVE General Discussion

I am not sure if you notice the same it is looking that we lost half of players playing the best game ever. My few colleague left game lately as it began to be to expensive for them to play.

Challenge I see is PLEX price few years ago it was 200M now is 1.2B but ships, weapon etc. price did not become few hundreds % more expensive. Additional PLEX/GTC for real money is twice more expensive compering to different MMO/Online games. We have now situation that players playing a lot and when do not have very good corporation just bleed trying to gather money for 1 PLEX . From second side people that are buying PLEX in real life become billionaires and can manipulate market what basically is killing this game.

We have got exactly the same situation few years ago in real life in Saudi Arabia where basically food product were so expensive that people started to starve. Then the Sheikh fix praises for same product and it is working for very long time.

I have Idea to set max price for PLEX at 500M ISK ( at Market and in Contracts) and when someone would like to sell his PLEX will go a little below this price to make his offer interested.

If you have different idea please post them here - I truly do not want this game to die. If we do not do anything next year PLEX price will be 2B and game will die.

I see you are missing pint of my post but you and I have same rights we are at opposite site - I want this game to have a lot of players for example just now you have 13k online at beginning of 2015 was 22k+ at the same time. From 2014 about 100 of my colleagues left game because of PLEX price and as player that would like to EVE I am trying to find solution. In 2014 were often we seen 30k+ online now we can just dream about it and recall god times.

I am still playing game and lvl up 2 chars in the same time but there is a lot of players that leaving game because of PLEX price.

For sure not this year but maybe next year or year after EVE Online will be like a desert and I do not what this.

PS. Cost of 1 PLEX for some people is nothing but even in same EU countries is its 2-5% of salary. And those players that pare playing EVE as F2P buying PLEX in game are leaving - if some1 is not buying PLEX for $/E it not mean that is bad player and that is not needed. Those players is more than players buying subscription and when we loos than game will slowly die.

The price CCP charges for PLEX hasn't changed in the time I have been playing the game. $19.95USD with volume discounts and occasional sales.

Every PLEX in the game was originally purchased by someone for real world money and that isn't likely to change - CCP is a business and can't afford to give their product away.

In game, the price is set by supply and demand. If more people want to use PLEX to pay for game time than want to sell PLEX for ISK, the price (measured in ISK) will increase.

You may be being optimistic. CCP have just unveiled another new use for PLEX, tailored towards the sort of players who can buy at any price. The speculators will very soon be at work pumping up PLEX price again in anticipation of this change.

So lets say CCP sets a limit of 500m for PLEX. Do you think you can play the game for free now ?

In reality, PLEX for this cheap would be sold out very soon as many people could afford it. So you sit in the station and wait infront of a dry market that someone puts up a PLEX that gets bought within seconds.

The only way that plex prices will go down is when ether less people want to buy plex from the market or more people buy a plex from CCP.

So what can you do ? Stop consuming plex and buy some from CCP.

Can I have your stuff ?

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I love how people juggle figures to support their preferred outcomes. It's absurd to claim something that at one time cost 350 million ISK, that now costs 1 billion ISK is a no harm, no foul non-event noticed only by the naive, ill-informed or lazy.

I love how people who have a virtual economic interest in prices soaring claim it's not a bad thing, or something that begs notice and for the good of the "game" everyone should just pretend it's normal and go on with your business.

I love how people often claim the amount of time it takes to obtain items with in-game currency is so insignificant if you think it is significant you must suck at the game.

BUT, what brings the most joy to my heart is for whom the game is being tailored!
https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=450957&find=unread

It's all truly inspiring!

Well for one we could stop peddling the idea that alts are mandatory. Frankly I've found that people who take this game too serious tend to burn out faster. If I had the same whinyass bittervet attitude how new players have it too easy that oozes from every other post these days I'd had quit years ago.

if plex price was 200m id need to buy 10 just to fit my panther, no thanks

Another "make EVE f2p" thread.