EVE General Discussion

Yup. It is a very good idea. One I have proposed as well in the past but people don't seem too interested. To CCP, PLEX is just as good as cold hard cash. One way or another if PLEX is bought, sold or traded in any way at all, CCP still gets the money from it. Why they have not already given the option to purchase hard goods through the CCP Store is beyond me.

Come to think of it...there may be some legal issues involved. Possible tax evasion issues and whatnot. Once you buy the PLEX you are then using face game money for real life goods. At least it could be viewed that way by some courts...

No

I wouldnt mind it tbh. +1 for the idea.

As for taxation youd already have to pay income tax in the country the cash originated in. The only thing youd be avoiding might be say sales tax but that varies by country anyway. The only real people to be losing out on the sales tax would be where the store is located physically and that can be gotten around easily as tax would simply be included in the price of the item so I dont see any tax reasons its not feasible. Import duties and fees would still apply as would shipping fees.

Yup, I can see why people would be afraid of that. Thing is ofcourse that with plex prices going up the supply would (slowly) also increase creating a new equilibrium. I'm not a fan of CCP being money grabbers but being ale to pay the store in plex would be a sound choice.

older players are still coming back in droves "having a look", using their isk to peek into EVE again. Apart from that easy isk like incursions means people have cash. The price is high because people are willing to pay it.

There is always a lag between the rise in price and the fall in demand. Think of 11th century England. A large summer storm wipes out the summer crops in August, farmers who had mastered two crop rotation managed to harvest the first but the second was lost, farmers who only did one cycle per season lost the whole schbang. With corn supply massively reduced, flour prices start to rise, as flour prices rise bread prices rise. There is small grumbling, then there is riots and starvation, as the starvation strikes deep into the peasantry and the long cold winter bites, the demand begins to drop. By the next summer equilibrium has been reached.

When the current rescission bites in deeper more people will turn to plex to keep their accounts going. As it bites deeper and they lose the ability to pay their utilities equilibrium will be reached.

Fake edit: Don't take this post seriously.

Initially the idea might seem good but there is a flaw. The problem is it creates a legal way for isk to be converted into RL $$. This would encourage even more botters.

Hello sir, I would like to purchase this car with 42 quafe T-shirts, they're quite rare you know.

Its an awesome idea as far as promoting botting and RMT.

I buy item.

I sell item.

I just took money out of CCP's coffers.

And also, you are correct. If you put money into a game it is a game. If you take money out it then falls under many countries' laws as a bank. Google Diablo III for more information on that.

Yes and /signed

However, bare in mind doing this would totally institutionalize RMT. The consequences of this is you can expect CCP to sell a crap-ton of merchandise, a wave of botting the likes of which we have never seen will wash over all of new eden, Russian/Chinese RMT'ers will need to radically alter their business model or go out of business, and yes PLEX will go through the roof. That might not be a bad thing though... for the game. It would be bad for me since I'm currently a PLEX player, but it would really change the landscape of MMO payment models and I think eve itself. All that said, I am supporting this simply because I would be interested to see what happens and shaking up the snowglobe now and again is fun. I'm not sure if this would net out as a good thing for the players or CCP. ...so, grain of salt yo.