EVE General Discussion

People nee to realize that only four things will drive plex prices down:

1) unhooking Aurum from plex.

2) flooding the market with more plex (law of supply and demand)

3) people stop using plex (law of supply and demand)

4) CCP makes plex and NPC bought item (this though completely messes with the entire idea of what a plex actually is.)

That's is, basic econ. Complaining about prices won't help, you want to lower prices? Pull your your CC and buy as much plex for cash as you can and flood the market.

A certain downtown area near where I live had an issue with parking (not enough of it). So, the city passed a law that each business had to provide sufficient parking for its establishment, and if they could not provide it on their own property, they could rent from others that ran parking not businesses, or if not that, they'd be taxed to pay for the city built parking garages.

A decade later, the parking problem is gone. Some people expanded the lots on their property, some buildings got torn down and turned into private lots that business rent. and the city built lots that are paid for with the tax.

Now that there is no parking problem, some of the business owners have suggested revoking the law.... so that they can build into the area that it currently their lot, or make their business more profitable by not having to pay for private or city owned parking lots.....

As if the problem would not come right back, if the law that fixed it were revoked!


IF, and that is a huge IF, RMT is under control, then it is only because their is a mechanism in game where you can pay real money and get ISK in return. Remove that "legal" mechanism for converting real money into ISK, and RMT would again EXPLODE!


And, would there be any rules against a freindly agreement between me and another player? He pays my subscription and I hand him 700 million ISK a month? Becuase that is effectivly all the PLEX mechanism is. I give you ISK, and you pay for my subscrition so that I can grind the ISK for you, so that you do not have to grind it yourself.

You see; this will never happen, primarily because there are enough people that buy a 'whole lot' of plex that would not all of a sudden make new accounts. I hazard that people primarily use plex for isk injection and not account subs. You know why I say this. I say it because of the little note at the bottom of the plex purchase page.

Just so you do not need to log in to find it I will post it right here for you.


"Those interested in purchasing packages containing 300 or more PLEX may email us at PLEXSales@ccpgames.com."


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And even that would not be the best fiscal move. Slowly leak them in and maximize profit unless the isk is needed immediately.

Eliminating PLEX would mainly disadvantage the new players with little play time who use PLEX to get some leverage into the game. It would also effect hardcore PvPers who pay with subs and use PLEX to replace their ship losses.

Oh boo hoo.

Point to the spot on the ice asteroid dolly where those 40 bad Procurers touched you.

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One great thing that would happen is, alot of alts would die. And players would be forced to use other real players for things like hauling.

Bad thing that would happen is that my pvp would hault.

affect, not effect.

I'd go back from 4 accounts (one of which has two characters training) to a single account.

I doubt that I'd quit EVE entirely but it's likely I would handle it the same way I do WoW, FFXIV, GW2, WoT, ... i.e. play (and subscribe) for a month or two after major updates, then get bored and switch to something else.

Why DO birds

Suddenly Appear!?

No it doesn't.

USing accrual accounting any income over the accounting period is recognised on the accounting books at the point of sale. Meaning that as soon as you buy a PLEX I record it as a sale. Subscriptions are similarly recorded as they are sold, so if I buy 3 months of game time every 3 months then that gets recognised once every 3 months, not once a month.

Accountants literally don't care how you pay money to CCP, and in fact this is probably one of the simplest things to account for.

CCP's R&D spend is probably the area that accountants have the most difficulty with as they need to decide whether they can/will capitalise R&D spend spreading the cost out over multiple years rather than 1 payment.

Of course, you'd know all that sort of stuff before making comments like that wouldn't you?

If CCP got rid of PLEX they'd realistically take a drop in income, as not every player who buys PLEX does so to PLEX their account. Whether or not this would improve the game as you'd see a drastic reduction in the number of people with like 12 alts is a matter of opinion.

If you're of the opinion that this game would be better if everyone had less alts (which I am) it is plausible that by getting rid of PLEX you'd improve the game, thus leading to an increase in subscriptions.

Now, I already knew you are thick as pigshit, but please don't drag us all into your blackhole of silliness.

Nobody cares about accountants in Eve, and rightly so. They're incredibly narrowminded and violently foolish, which you just proved with those remarks. Although I suspect you are a book-keeper, or a 'QBE' eh.

They can't form a reliable accrual system for plex. It's a persistent and volatile liability. You do understand the difference between assets and liablities ye? Accruals refer to bills you expect and budget for, not cash in hand for unpaid services. Bad debt write-offs being the reverse.
This has been discussed before in MD at length via people with :brain:, I suggest you go there so they can slap you up and down. Cos, you seem to enjoy it. And I really can't be arsed