You're mentioning two fairly small regions.

Just seeding PLEX at a lower fixed Price ...

There might be point when CCP intervenes but i doubt it will be before we see much higher Plex prices.


This is just for the dudes who are crying it's to expansive, it costs to much time to grind party.
Right now at lets say 600m per Plex, you need with
- absolute stupid L4 mission grinding with no idea how to use LP, a Drake
20m/h => 30h (that's 2h for 15days) very painful but doable, still remember you can play this game for "free" after and just used your free time
(snip blah blah blah L4missions whine blah blah)

Oh come on stop talking about blaming L4 missions veteran mains with 8 day old speed tanked alts are making 20+ billion a month in FW Winmitar complexes. They went tier 5 again last weekend & we're seeing the PLEX spkie brcause of it.
The PvE designers need to take a class which explains the definition of a Monty Haul campaign.
At least with Incursions you had to have 3 month's plus o trianing to get in a legion or logistic then had to find a fleet and incursions paid what 1/4 what these speedtank alts are making a month?

No to mention all the other better methods of earning ISK in EVE. It is still to easy to get ISK in EVE and i think the Plex price is reflecting that.

ESSENCEtrademan boughtout all plex in essense region.
GENESIStrademan boughtout all plex in genesis region.

Feel free to continue the list while claiming there's no manipulation going on.

Oh I'm sorry, was this meant to be a secret?

I'd bet CCP's central bank will fix this before the week-end and manipulater tears will flood these forums.

On a side note, stop blaming Goons for all you dislike about this game. It's gotten old ages ago. If yer unhappy just stop playing,ya know.... do yerself the favor.

This will kill off CCP's ability to sell PLEX, as there would be little to no reason for players to purchase PLEX from other players, and with that part of the equation killed off, there is no point purchasing PLEX with RL money, thus killing off a source of income for CCP.

My tinfoil hat suspicion is that enough RMT botrings got busted that this is the result.

If you really stop to think about it.

PLEX prices even at +575,000,000 isk is not really out of line considering the inflation the EVE economy has experienced recently.

For as long as I can remember, aside from a few temp fluctuations, PLEX price has always been about half the cost of a freighter.

When PLEX was selling for just over 300 mil each a freighter was worth a little over 600 mil.

freighters right now are sitting between 1.2 and 1.5 bil. So PLEX could be sitting at 600-750 mil before things level out.

never thought I would ever see PLEX that high.

Edit,
Make that over 1.6 bil for a freighter right now in Jita. Even buy orders are at 1.5-1.6 bil.

how the hell did that happen? I thought 1.2 bil for a freighter was crazy high.

I always wondered why CCP don't factor NPC rewards in with game inflation.

As Bugsy pointed out (even if a bit simply), prices of T1 equipment in a lot of cases has doubled in less than a year. Plex prices have increased, as has the cost of virtually everything else. The only thing that hasn't gone up is the ISK reward for NPC bounties and rewards.

well PLEX supplies in Jita are rising and the 0.01 isking is driving prices down.

I think I saw it hit a high of 574 mil lowest sell. now there are almost 40 under 570 mil

20.37 Well over 40 now with prices dropping fast.

Glad I cashed out at 572 mil.

20.42 over 50 under 570 mil and prices still diving. several under 568 mil.

20.45 some bellow 565 mil and dropping really fast. supplies still rising.

looks like it is over. hope someone got rich.

Why is nobody thinking the obvious ....... CCP are BEHIND the escalation of PLEX prices.

Why is everyone assuming that CCP will step in on behalf and will lower the value of PLEX?

Why is nobody thinking the obvious ....... CCP are BEHIND the escalation of PLEX prices.

Check history of plex prices. CCP has a PLEX "Sale" and reduces the RL cost of PLEX for a limited time. Let's say 100 idiots buy the 30 plex or whatever number it is and then the rest buy the smaller packages. These players are obviously not buying them for game time as it would be cheaper to just sub. So that's a minimum of 3,000 plex floated onto the market immediately. Supply is exceeding now demand and the price goes down on any market under these conditions right? Wrong!

Prior to, during and in a lot of cases just after (like this one) a money for plex sale the price of plex has rocketed. Not once not twice every single time!

Why? Pretty obvious .... it's a cash injection to CCP but who in their right mind is going to buy plex at 400 million isk when they have seen the price at 500 per? They wouldn't so the market needs manipulating by the developer to push the price high to get those people buying.
Unfortunately they started the Catch 22 and now it is out of control. It wasn't that long ago plex were 330 mill (plex "sales" weren't as often or as advertised as heavily as they are now. Coincidence I think not!) but by actually stepping in and raising by buying the price has to keep going up because the sales will not work on the next occasion unless the isk price per plex is at least as good as it was before. People will simply wait until the next sale or the one after indefinitely.

There will be naysayers and trolls on this but give it some thought and do some research on plex price history and it really works out. The biggest problem with artificially controlling what is supposed to be a free market is that you have to trust that the coders and people in charge are competent enough to be able to stabilise the market again after the sale ............. oh wait we are talking about the same guys who tried to sneak MT through the backdoor, took 6 months to get incursions right then had to redress them because people were earning too much isk, rewrote our boot.ini and managed to publish an official video of the remodeled Drake with 8 launchers on it. Forget the competency bit.

I always wondered why CCP don't factor NPC rewards in with game inflation.

As Bugsy pointed out (even if a bit simply), prices of T1 equipment in a lot of cases has doubled in less than a year. Plex prices have increased, as has the cost of virtually everything else. The only thing that hasn't gone up is the ISK reward for NPC bounties and rewards.

A spike to 700m may show CCP a bump in PLEX sales, but when the price goes back down below 500m, all those people are just going to be waiting for the next spike before they buy again. CCP wouldn't really end up ahead, they'd just be messing with the pattern of PLEX purchases, creating new bumps and dips. Which doesn't serve them at all, if they like revenue streaming in on a consistent, predictable basis.