EVE General Discussion

Looked back over past five years, the monthly plexflation is around 1.75%, yearly 23%.

Could hit a billion around the end of next year.

I'm not saying anything about me and some friend, but let's assume that yes. we're plexing 6 characters each making 1 bil, and the guy with no access to PI is making 600mil. We have 6 ppl that can at most afford to spend 1 bil on a plex, and there's a guy that can at most afford to spend 600mil. That guy won't be buying plexes.

Without PI, we would gain less ISK per month, and would have much less benefit in having alts for profit.

I remember when 300mil got you a 90day GTC :(

People crying because it's hard to play for free, because not enough other people are paying for their game for them.

Entitlement much?

For a highsec carebear or a nullsec ratter, earnings have remained quite static while other, far more profitable venues have surfaced. So it's mostly those guys that are hurt.

If 10 dollars are a problem to pay for your video game, you shouldn't play video games until 10 dollars are not a problem.

I don't like it any more than you do OP, but if I see how easily I can PLEX 3 accounts a month I'm not surprised prices are going up. I f I can do it with my half arsed income schemes (I put in about zero effort to maximize my income, not in PVE, industry and trading, the pro's would prolly ROFLOL if they saw my inefficiency) then basically anyone can do it, which will translate in high demand.

And it's not just those 3 PLEX per month I have to use to PLEX my accounts, I started parking my excess liquid isk in PLEX too, since historically it only seems to be going up, and pretty fast too. I figure tons of players do this. Much as IRL gold is considered a good 'safe haven', so does PLEX seem to be a safe haven in EVE. It's even better than gold, if gold were to crash completely IRL (due to space mining or exotic synthetic materials developed at a fraction of the cost or whatever) you're stuck with a worthless raw material, if PLEX were to crash to 1/100th of it's value, it's still worth 30 days of play time per PLEX.

I'm guessing it will never crash or even stabilize as long as EVE is a thriving game. CCP keeps adding more stuff to do with PLEX which gives ppl with more isk then they know what to do with something to do with it. Dual/Triple training, transferring chars to other accounts, ship painting etc etc. And then there is RL inflation too, PLEX will not be 15$ forever (or however much it is atm).

Bottom line, it will keep going up, learn to deal with it, start paying subs or leave the game. Should the time come where I can no longer PLEX my accounts with the ammount of effort I now put into it, I might sub one or two accounts or leave EVE. That point should be reached at about 1 billion per PLEX with my CURRENT income.

A lot of the time when ppl say: "I don't have money for X." what the actually mean is:"I don't have money to get X, Y and Z and I really don't wanna give up Y and Z cuz they are more important or I enjoy them more.". Same with me, I like EVE but I'm pretty casual. If EVE were to cost me 45 euro a month to keep up that casual play I'd be gone. While I have no problem spending multiple times that a month on pubs, movies, dining out etc. It just wouldn't be worth it for me.

I no longer use my real money to pay for EVE. I don't think I ever will. It isn't so wonderful that I'll grind forever to pay for it or waste my precious, finite real money on a senseless luxury, no matter the price. There is a point at which many players will quit if the ISK for playtime equation no longer works out. Make any argument you like and call them any name you want, but it doesn't change that fact.

High plex prices are a great thing.