Market Discussions

ive been apart of the game a little over 3 years now and have seen the price for everything increase dramatically over the past year idk if its possible or if the ISK system in place for EVE is based off of what players do to the market but things are becoming too expensive its making new players not want to pursue the game any further i think that systems should be put in place that dont make everything sky rocket as easily for instance last year PLEX was around 750-800mil a piece now its well over a billion ISK thats ridiculous its just my idea to help newcomers a bit by maybe managing the market/ISK much better so its not so expensive i may not kno what im talking about but its just something that i noticed and something that bothered me plz only serious responses no trolls

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The price of PLEX purchased from CCP has remained constant for years. All that's changed is the exchange rate between PLEX and ISK. As Tipa pointed out, this is driven by supply and demand on the in-game market. For the most part this is beneficial for new players who typically want to sell PLEX for ISK to fund in-game activity and detrimental for old players who typically have lots of ISK and want to exchange it for PLEX to pay for game time.

If you look at the economic indicies in CCP Quants monthly economic report http://cdn1.eveonline.com/community/MER/Feb_2017/9d_economy.indices.png you will see that the CPI (consumer price index) has been falling steadily since 2005. Things are not getting more expensive!

Things are not getting more expensive, the value of ISK is simply going down, inflation is more or less inevitable. Also, PLEX is currently managed by in game supply, and demand. So when supply is greater than demand, the price per, goes down, and the reverse is the same, when demand is greater than supply, the value goes up. The market for PLEX is already managed by CCP, as they have PLEX sales, which often lowers the price of PLEX again. To try and actually manage either end of PLEX say, anymore than CCP already does, would throw the item out of balance and would ultimately affect CCP and the player base in the long run as PLEX is a great source of income for CCP, which fuels future expansions. That being said, given the changes that are in the pipes at the moment, i expect PLEX to come down in price, due to EVE moving to a more micro-transaction model, which is essentially going to open the floodgates for players that up until now, found the $40 per month too great to be worth it, when they just want to pew pew and log off.

If you look at "how long do i have to grind in order to afford this" then PLEX aren't really that much more expensive. If you look at the Economic Report the money supply has doubled over the last 5 years so it makes sense for PLEX prices to follow the trend. Long term I still see PLEX as the best inflation hedge.

might be aussie or nz $ or some other currency that has no value on the exchange