EVE General Discussion

Growing up under an abusive alcoholic father and having to work full time since I was 12 to be able to eat makes me privileged? F*ck off mate. Jesus, your arrogance.

That you talk about insulting people after what you just said is very ironic though....

One more time kitten, if you can't afford to pay a few dollars per month to play a video game, you shouldn't be paying games in the first place.

1/10, troll harder plz

The alpha account is for people that cannot afford or don't want a subscription.
When you can afford a subscription I cannot see the wisdom in it why you would Plex your account.

maybe Plex goes 30% up in cost of earning Isk that means for people that were able to plex 12 time can do only 9 times and must then buy a 3 month gametime that is $39,00 for a year Omega, that is still a bargain for a game you like to play

I think for CCP this change has worked well for them. The devaluation of in- game ISK would disrupt RMT market model.

Learn how plex works please

An account subbed with PLEX bring in more money than an account subbed with direct subscription.

I get what you mean to say, but the above is not correct.

An account subbed with PLEX brings in zero money.

Only purchase of PLEX from CCP brings in money, or subbing directly.

That PLEX is used to purchase various services ingame, in no case earns CCP even a cent.

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Back when Aurum existed and was bought from CCP, and used for purchase of secondary content, the above was different.

Now that it is all PLEX based, CCP infact stands to lose money as people with PLEX stockpiles use those instead of Aurum.

PLEX to Aurum conversion was awkward before, now that obstacle no longer exists.

Players with PLEX stockpiles can now access the EVE store directly, with the Aurum wealth translated directly into PLEX.

TLDR: With the translation of Aurum into PLEX, and division of PLEX, PLEX stockpilers can now directly access the store without conversion problems, essentially subjugating CCPs store to the price of PLEX ingame (largely) exclusively in terms of ingame purchases of EVE store items.

TLDR2: The higher the price of PLEX ingame, the less demand there will be for EVE store items (whereas before it was Aurum and separate) as most players focus their PLEX use on subs or translating their cash bought PLEX into isk.

There are two phases of life of the PLEX. First, its purchased from CCP and then it is removed from game in exchange for stuff.

These are things that make PLEX price grow:

More PLEX leaving economy results in more demand for it.

Less PLEX purchased results in more demand for it.

Creating PLEX fund for allocation of wealth results in more demand for it, as its removing PLEX for a time from the economy.

In the books, the money is not written as earned as long as the PLEX has not been used on whatever service you want to use it, be it sub, character services or the store for some fancy glasses.

At the end of the day, PLEX is a currency. It's like transferring your euros to USD except in the case of PLEX, you can't transfer back to the previous currency and this particular currency happen to be of nil value outside of CCP's product offering.

CCP only "earn" your money when the PLEX are used. All hoarded PLEX are still pending usage for the associated money to become "income" by CCP.

For clarification: When I said "real $$ sub" I assumed people would understand that buying plex with real $$ was included in that statement.

Silly me. I know better than to assume anything.