Rhok Relztem
Caldari
CGMA Synergist Syndicate
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Posted - 2010.07.10 03:43:00 -
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Edited by: Rhok Relztem on 10/07/2010 03:46:09
Good Lord people! Stop and think before going off the deep end and making idiotic assumptions and statements. The changes don't affect anything that is currently in place. You don't HAVE to move your PLEX and can redeem them from anywhere in the universe. If someone does actually decide to move their PLEX whether for the chance of greater profit by reselling or simply to store them someplace else, they do so knowing full well what the risk is - they could very well lose every PLEX on the ship. But to emphasize... YOU DO NOT NEED TO MOVE YOUR PLEX TO USE THEM!!! NOTHING CHANGES IN THAT REGARD! Geesh. 
As for the fear (or hope) that the bottom will drop out of the market, it just won't happen. As much risk as there will be, there will still be those market players who will chance it. But they won't be moving all of their PLEX to the hubs. PLEX will start to show up at out of the way spots, in low-sec, and in 0.0, most likely at inflated prices, in the hopes of selling them to the outlaws and pirates who have difficulty getting to the hubs. The hubs' prices themselves will fluctuate up and down for awhile as the market players jockey for the best prices and quick sales, but due to more PLEX heading to the outer regions and only the most daring (or stupid depending on the situation) actually moving PLEX, the volume in the hubs may actually drop thus causing the price to eventiually settle higher than it is currently.
I noticed someone commenting about CCP spending time on this and not fixing the servers, bugs, etc. C'mon. Really. This is probably one of the easiest changes CCP has made in a long time. All that is being done is removing the special status restrictions from a few items. Nothing new is being added and very little code is being changed. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't doubt this was already coded and just sitting there waiting for the team to decide if and when to impliment it.
Finally, the idea that CCP sees this as a way to make a few extra bucks is ludicrous. I'd wager that very few PLEX will actually end up being destroyed since not many are going to risk moving them and losing them to gankers and pirates, and many that do get caught carrying them will almost certainly be willing to pay a handsome ransom rather than see their PLEX destroyed or looted. Granted, the few that do actually get destroyed is free money to CCP but it's just a drop in the bucket compared to all of the monthly subscriptions. So they make a few extra bucks. That's just more money that can go into developement and bug fixes.
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