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Michael Stabb
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.10 11:19:00 -
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So, with speculation of dual character training for PLEX, I wanted to maybe suggest shifting all these extra services to Aurum Tokens.
Those services being character re-sculpting, character transfers, the possible dual character training feature and any others CCP decide to add in the future.
As it is now, PLEX's are around 510m, or near enough. If they keep adding features that use PLEX, those that use them to maintain game time will soon find that they can't afford the rising PLEX prices.
It is called a Pilots License Extension after all, it's not a catch all currency.
Just a thought. |
Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks The Omega Industries
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Posted - 2013.05.10 11:22:00 -
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Or they can just buy PLEX with real money and not care about the rising ISK cost.
EDIT - and if PLEX prices soar more people will buy PLEX with RL money and the price will stop rising. These things tend to self regulate. Also, PLEX to isk value isn't something that CCP seem to have any interest in regulating. There are plenty of people (those that buy PLEX with RL money to sell for isk) who will be very happy if the price goes up. You win some you lose some. |
Michael Stabb
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.10 11:37:00 -
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Some people would rather avoid dumping real money into EVE. Regarding the self regulation, I seem to recall a PLEX costing about 250m a few years ago, look at how well it regulated. |
Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks The Omega Industries
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Posted - 2013.05.10 11:58:00 -
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I think you're missing the point slightly. PLEX isk price is entirely dictated by supply and demand. PLEX real life money price is fixed. CCP regulate the price of people buying PLEX with real life money and the EvE market regulates the price of PLEX in isk.
By regulate I certainly don't mean "keep at a value that you're happy with", I mean the price is regulated by the players buying and selling PLEX on the market.
The right to play the game for no RL money if you have enough isk is given to you by CCP. If you want to pay RL money then it's a predictable, fixed amount. If you want to buy it with isk you're at the mercy of market forces.
Complaining that the ingame cost of PLEX changes is pretty dumb as the ingame cost of everything changes based various things, supply and demand being one.
If you want to avoid dumping money into EvE that's fine. However, the trade off is that you have to pay the isk price dictated by the market. Complaining that the price has gone up is just whining, really.
What's bad for you is good for the seller and you say they were about half the price that they were a few years ago, well, so was pretty much everything else. I remember buying a Rokh hull for 120mill. Now theyr'e over 240mill. Them's market forces and inflation for you. |
Maximus Aerelius
PROPHET OF ENIGMA
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Posted - 2013.05.10 12:39:00 -
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+1 I agree with the OP, PLEX should do just what "it says on the tin" = Pilot License EXtension. For everything else there's AUR.
PLEX were introduced for those that are cash poor and ISK rich to help them still fund their EVE Accounts AFAIK, not as a catch all. Fast Character Switching:https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=233321&find=unread |
Michael Stabb
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.10 13:03:00 -
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Tchulen wrote:I think you're missing the point slightly. PLEX isk price is entirely dictated by supply and demand. PLEX real life money price is fixed. CCP regulate the price of people buying PLEX with real life money and the EvE market regulates the price of PLEX in isk.
By regulate I certainly don't mean "keep at a value that you're happy with", I mean the price is regulated by the players buying and selling PLEX on the market.
The right to play the game for no RL money if you have enough isk is given to you by CCP. If you want to pay RL money then it's a predictable, fixed amount. If you want to buy it with isk you're at the mercy of market forces.
Complaining that the ingame cost of PLEX changes is pretty dumb as the ingame cost of everything changes based various things, supply and demand being one.
If you want to avoid dumping money into EvE that's fine. However, the trade off is that you have to pay the isk price dictated by the market. Complaining that the price has gone up is just whining, really.
What's bad for you is good for the seller and you say they were about half the price that they were a few years ago, well, so was pretty much everything else. I remember buying a Rokh hull for 120mill. Now theyr'e over 240mill. Them's market forces and inflation for you.
Jesus, chill the frack out. I'm not complaining, it's a suggestion.
With the way things are going, PLEX are just becoming tokens for redeeming other services from CCP, through this they're starting to fail in the service they were introduced to provide, acting as game time. I don't mind paying whatever the present ISK price is for a PLEX, but prices are slowly rising and I just don't want to see them become unreasonably high.
P.S. It's EVE, not EvE. |
TheSkeptic
Federal Navy Academy Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.05.10 13:07:00 -
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Michael Stabb wrote:Some people would rather avoid dumping real money into EVE.
The funny thing about this is majority of people would earn more IRL with their time than in EVE.
1 plex is less than an hours work.
If you spend more than 1 hour earning your isk to plex your account you are doing it wrong... you probably also think the minerals you mine are free. ... |
Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks The Omega Industries
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Posted - 2013.05.10 13:22:00 -
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Michael Stabb wrote:Jesus, chill the frack out. I'm not complaining, it's a suggestion.
I am chill thanks and well, you are complaining about the price of PLEX.
Michael Stabb wrote:With the way things are going, PLEX are just becoming tokens for redeeming other services from CCP, through this they're starting to fail in the service they were introduced to provide, acting as game time. I don't mind paying whatever the present ISK price is for a PLEX, but prices are slowly rising and I just don't want to see them become unreasonably high.
As I explained previously, prices are slowly rising on everything. It's called inflation. I'm pretty sure that not all people who use PLEX for things other than game time buy them for isk. Some people buy them with real money. If the price increases enough there are those who would otherwise not buy PLEX to sell on the market who would so it should even out.
Anyway, I don't care overly about it. I'd just like to see PLEX prices skyrocket for selfish reasons :) so I'll leave you to it.
Michael Stabb wrote:P.S. It's EVE, not EvE. Thank you for the correction. I'll make sure I spell eve correctly in the future. rofl. |
Michael Stabb
School of Applied Knowledge Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.05.10 13:44:00 -
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TheSkeptic wrote:
The funny thing about this is majority of people would earn more IRL with their time than in EVE.
1 plex is less than an hours work.
I earn plenty, I'd just rather put it somewhere better, because I have more hobbies than EVE..
Tchulen wrote:
I am chill thanks and well, you are complaining about the price of PLEX.
I'm not complaining about the price of PLEX, I'm not complaining at all. I'm suggesting that all these additional services be moved to another in-game token and the link with PLEX be removed.
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