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Rakshasa Taisab
Caldari
Sane Industries Inc.
Initiative Mercenaries
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Posted - 2011.06.15 10:30:00 -
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Guys, CCP doesn't need to 'take PLEX from inactive accounts'... where the hell do you guys think PLEX comes from?
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Florestan Bronstein
draketrain
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2011.06.15 10:42:00 -
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 Originally by: Rakshasa Taisab
Guys, CCP doesn't need to 'take PLEX from inactive accounts'... where the hell do you guys think PLEX comes from?
so you would rather create new liabilities?
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Tutskii
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Posted - 2011.06.15 14:54:00 -
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They can always give themselves loans of Plex "acquired" when the price is under their flotation band, and use them to lower the price when it is over it.
The "promotion" would indeed seem to show the upper boundary for such a band.
Regardless, with the Aurum store they are creating a convenient way to "destroy" Plex in the future if need be while creating no liabilities, in fact, whatever Plex was "conveniently transformed into vanity items to secretly stock some select areas with Vanity items for Isk" could be dismissed as marketing costs.
Of course, there is no evidence of CCP doing any such thing at this time, and if they were even moderately competent, perhaps ever, but it would be a mistake to ignore that that is a possibility open to them, in my opinion.
However, heavy handed intervention, even in "hard to spot" patterns by random alts :tinfoil: would undoubtedly be spotted by someone. And it is unlikely that they could easily fix a determined swing upwards in price without heavy investment.
But the arguable "moral suasion" of the advert does create a psychological incentive to keep things under their upper band: Do you dump your Plex at 395 or risk them running the advert again or doing something else and have your profits wiped out? If we start from the position that they are not of subhuman intelligence and have an inkling of cause and effect, correlation, and or have looked at the market, then they wish us to be very aware of said upped limit.
The remarkable "bounce" in price does show that the suasion will perhaps not be very effective, and not for very long.
I think the important things here is that we live in a world where CCP makes the rules, and that we have arguably witnessed exactly what they wanted us to see in the Plex market, and a willingness by them to "enforce" those rules. This is backed by the statements about them regulating the Plex market being a possibility: This is not a statement that would be used lightly.
The question is then: what comes after the ad?
Suasion is only effective if its a credible threat.
So something must happen in order to maintain deterrence. The only question is what.
Go make a new disaster, that's what I'm counting on. You're someone else's problem, now I only want you gone...
http://www.eveonline.com/iNgameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1516147 mcv |
Claire Voyant
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Posted - 2011.06.15 16:45:00 -
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Supply? Demand? Pointless blabber?
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Tutskii
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Posted - 2011.06.15 17:15:00 -
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Originally by: Claire Voyant
Supply? Demand? Pointless blabber?
Yeah, I suppose that was missing, but thanks for correcting that :)
Go make a new disaster, that's what I'm counting on. You're someone else's problem, now I only want you gone...
http://www.eveonline.com/iNgameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1516147 mcv |
Clair Bear
Ursine Research and Production
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Posted - 2011.06.15 23:58:00 -
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I laugh at your supposition that CCP has no tools to affect the price of PLEX.
They *RUN* the economy and have the giant stick of game design. PLEX are valued based in relation to the economy. Increase the player's earning power and PLEX go up. Come up with a mechanic to nerf the living poo out of people's monthly income, PLEX go down.
No need for trading alts. Just come out with a devblog to the effect of "you know, rat bounties were a terrible, terrible idea. Tags for everyone. The ISK faucets are out of control and must be shut, we'd like to see a max of 100M isk/month income for a typical high sec player" and see what happens to PLEX price.
And in summary, bigger blobs are the answer. Now what was the question? |
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