EVE General Discussion

The PLEX market is getting completely out of control. The PLEX robber barons run amok with their unchecked behavior, while the average price tag of PLEX today makes anyone save for the vile 1% not able to afford game time. CCP needs to address this issue as fast as possible, or EVE will surely die. I propose that CCP starts selling PLEX to people directly on the EVE market, so as to bypass the tyranny of the scammers and fat capitalist swine strangulating the finances of the honest high-sec industrialists and 0.0 pvp warriors who are responsible for maintaining what little integrity this game has left. Here are this proposal's key aspects:

1. By selling PLEX directly to players, CCP can control the price directly, and therefore the amount that gets sold. As it is right now, only a select few people can buy PLEX due to the insane price. If the price is lowered, then many more people can afford them. If many more people can afford them, then CCP can sell many more PLEX. The more PLEX CCP sells, the more profit they stand to make. If CCP makes PLEX so cheap that even new players can easily afford them, then EVE can easily get tens of thousands new subscriptions in very short order, thus driving up CCP's profits exponentially.

2. Selling PLEX to players directly would also act as a powerful ISK sink. Instead of injecting new ISK into the system each time a player sells a PLEX for ISK to another player, it will go directly to CCP. This will have the added positive side effect of driving PLEX prices down further, because less ISK in the game would make PLEX proportionally more valuable, necessitating further price decreases.

3. If CCP sells PLEX directly, then there would be much less, or even better, no scamming. Since CCP would drive PLEX value down, scammers would no longer be able to competitively price their contracts, and would quickly go out of business. This would cause the game's reputation to spike in the gaming media, thus driving up subscription numbers and making CCP sell even more PLEX. Everybody wins (except the pigdog scammers).

4. Let's face it, the price of PLEX is responsible for the amount of criminal activity that occurs in the game. The less educated/fortunate players, who don't have the ability or training to earn their monthly ISK like the miners, industrialists, or salesmen do, are forcefully driven to lives of crime for lack of alternatives. If PLEX became affordable, then these people would no longer be forced to cheat, steal, and gank just to make ends meet. By being able to afford PLEX directly from CCP, these people would finally have a chance to find honest careers. It's a win-win situation for everyone.

I hope CCP listens to this advice, and makes no delay in implementing these changes. Time is growing short. Unless immediate action is taken, it will soon be cheaper to not play this game than to play it. If no one plays the game, then the company that makes it goes out of business. It's just common sense.

If anything it will make the amount of ISK go up in the game.

With enough teams entering, PLEX prices will go up. Making people grind more to buy the higher plex prices. So prices could inflate from this tournament or so much tied to PLEX sales.

Of course a balance could be reach, with high plex prices, where people stop grinding more and just buy their account with RL money. And not experience much inflation at all.