EVE General Discussion

the cost of a plex in ISK has gone up 41 million isk in the last 6 days and is now topping a masive 500 mill isk on the markets.

I personal think this is now out of reach for many of the casual players currently playing eve and will ultimatly drive them away, I speak as one my self.

Playing for free was for me the last realistic draw for playing EVE.

What has the real cost of PLEX been for the game as a whole. Is it a good thing turned bad by sheer greed as with so many other things in the game.

I personal think that in 90 days time the eve population will fall drasticly. Sadly I don't think I will be around to see if I am right or not. Paying real money to be this bored is not really that apeeling to me.

Likely price gouging to an extent as well.

There seems to be an ample supply of plex, people just realize they can pump up the price at the start of a new expansion, doubly so to catch tentative returns from the incarna exodus.

Supply and demand I agree this could be a reason for this huge inflation. BUT! I suspect that less players are buying actual plex from CCP and the driving force behind the inflation is the buy orders not the sell orders.

Think about it less plex available will drive the price up not down. So less plex being available on the market means less real cash ging into the CCP bank. What will CCP do to rectify this, we have allready seen the "buy plex now advert" havent we.

The cost of plex is sky rocketing up at such a rate in a months or less they will be 1 billion isk a pop. Will that drive them out of existance.

Stay tuned I supose.

HOLY COW you can make 500 mill isk in 5-10 hours. Man how boring must the game be for you.

I would have to be unemployed to achive that dude. or overly commit my out of work time to EVE, a some thing I find very unattractive.

Of course! 5-10 hours a month of playing eve I would have to be unemployed too

I find paying any money to be this bored in a game untenable, I am talking about the casual player here these are usualy the old long term players who have been there and done it.

The guys who pay the $15 are usualy the young excitable types new to the game or dare i say it the EVE junkies who simple can not live with out their EVE fix.

I know my chars age says it is young but I have had many rebirths in eve and been playing since Sept 06, the appel for me is in the building of a char.

What are you a peasant? Pay for the game and you don't have to waste time buying plex. If 15 dollars crosses your principles (lol, cough, poverty!) then gtfo and play something else, but i can't say you'll be missed.

Either troll or very mad.

5-10 hours a day is a very realistic number for just about anyone to make 500mil a month.

With plex being 500mil anyone making 20mil a day would more than cover the cost over the course of a month. Sure you won't be flying Pimp fit ships or PVPing like crazy but 20 mil a day isn't that hard to make. The average L4 runner can make that in an hour and the incursion runner can make 10x that and not have to put up looting/salvaging/cashing LP etc.

If you specialize in trade or indy you only need to make 2mil/slot/day. I make far more than that and hardly spend more than an hour a day logged in. Sure the 3day old character probably won't be able to afford a plex their 1st or maybe 2nd month due to not being able to fly decent ships, lack of skills, etc. The only people that should be complaining about plex prices are the hardcore highsec miners that spend all day mining in highsec for 8mil/hr to "play for free."

If anyone has trouble affording $15/month they shouldn't be playing EVE in the first place. So as to your question: the real cost of plex is about 500mil ISK in the game.