EVE General Discussion

Not at all, happens always after a stock split or currency change.


"old" plex was over 1b, people looked at it and said "hmm 1b, that's a lot", Now it's a few million and you have to multiply by 500 so small difference of "0.2 mil", which is hard to see, adds up.

/me shrugs.

I subscribe and the Bus only give out plex on special occasions so this is not a lake I have a boat in. Yes, things are more expensive . . . but all that triggers is a 'back when I was a kid . . . ' talk from us old players.

Inflation happens. In Eve, the economic system is a decent player driven microcosm and I would expect things to steadily grown more expensive. Thus, I am not sure what the whining is about unless it is the same whining I do when I go shopping for groceries or go to a bar and see current prices.

so I subscribe, I play, I enjoy the game

I am weird, that way

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It's not "for the moment". Those are permanent. People are stupid. They don't math "good". So the "bonus" is CCPs way of telling people how much extra they get by buying in bulk.

nope that's why I bought a bunch before the patch.

Not when they have no idea what to spend it for (read: VR and other 'funny' but 'dead right from the start' stuff).

To OP: yes, i am surprised that PLEX is skyrocketed. Actually i expected PLEX to get cheaper at least for some time: all these PLEX from nowhere (from aurum noone used)...
But yeah, i'm always bad at market speculation so i'm not surprised that i failed.

Now demand is so big because every alpha want to have some piece of EVE's analogue of real life's gold. Every spare ISK laying around is converted for future and for those sweeeeet New Eden Store deals.

I am even thinking the contracts will include PLEX as the currency in some rare deals.

I subscribe. EVE is a hobby. Plexing EVE feels like a second job to me. No need of that.

It's a solid investment though. Plex was at 200m when I started playing 6 years ago. So it's been up 200-250m on average each year.

Nvm.
I ran the numbers wrong.
Injectors are overpriced.

As PLEX rises, I expect Injector price will drop as players consolidate their accounts down and sell off SP.
Its unclear how interested the wealthy will be in Injectors as they suffer malus when injecting on their mains, and even their alts are already well established in SP, leaving demand largely in newer players (whom weigh Injectors vs PLEX)

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1.2bil already really pushed the envelope for many players to PLEX according to earning from fairly active playing in a wide range of activities popular on a single account.

1.5bil is gonna cut off a lot of alts, as the 300mil increase additively multiplies the more accounts a player has.
It gets harder to leverage multiple accounts against a 300mil income increase demand per account for PLEXing.

Leading to exponential amount of subbed/PLEXed account attrition, which is going to look bad on CCP ledgers, despite the artificial retention of those accounts as "Alpha". Especially over summer when a lot of players actually end up playing less even though they may have more expendable freetime.

This money grab is not going to pan out well in terms of activity numbers.

I wouldnt be surprised to see a sustained ~-20% activity attrition by the end of summer into fall as compared to now.

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Caveat: If NS recruits really hard, some of that attrition may be retained as players potentially find the means to PLEX via NS activity/income, but this will be at most some few %.

I strongly encourage everyone to consider moving into NS or established WH corps this summer.
Its "that time" now to make the move.

HS/LS and low WH content income is not going to be adequate to PLEX without a great deal of activity ingame earning.
The isk is in NS and WHs, and to an extent, LS if you play hard.

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No "EVE IS DYING", but I think this may be the worst summer yet for EVE, and the tipping point towards an accelerated decline in activity.

Ironically, the only remedy I see for that, is as many players as possible moving to NS/WHs this summer/fall unless you are prepared to sub with cash.

Lets call it "The NS Summer".

Hell, even I am going to make the move.
Its the only way to save EVE, in your own interest and for the good of the game.

Sending players in to null to grind isk wont help with the retention, they wil quit as soon as they realise that its a crappy job.
I also strongly disagree with your claim that lowsex cant provide enough income for a normal healthy lifestile.

Bollocks.