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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.27 21:43:00 -
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I know there's a lot of people that are going to take issue with me on this... but let me tell you what I think.
I think by Feb 1 2013 EvE is going to have well over a million accounts (DUST players coming in)
I think PLEX prices are going to be over 750 mil ea by mid December.
I think both of those estimates are conservative.
My advice? If you need PLEX to run your account... buy now. It's going to get crazy.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.27 21:55:00 -
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Touval Lysander wrote:Gogela wrote:
My advice? If you need PLEX to run your account... buy now. It's going to get crazy.
I reckon I bought more after reading this than you did 
Yah I PLEXed out both of my accounts to late 2014 a few months ago anticipating this. I was hesitant to go out so far because I wasn't sure if CCP would even last that long, but having played the DUST beta now I am really sold. It's going to be a very good game... and will have more depth than any FPS anyone has ever played. I figured the probability of CCP pulling it off was pretty slim, but now it looks to me like they've got a winner. The market implications for EvE will be profound. This game was long overdue for a big shake-up, and I really think we are going to get it. There's going to be ample opportunity for EvE players to get rich on the changes, but there's also going to be a lot more competition across the board. Now is the buyers market for all things EvE. The sellers market is going to explode after the winter expansion and when everyone in EvE knows what DUST is bringing in.
...just my 2 isk
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.27 22:04:00 -
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Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:Keep your isk! This isn't a charity!
...as in keep my advice? Speculating on future changes is one of the most lucrative things you can do in EvE. 
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
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Posted - 2012.09.27 22:21:00 -
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Here I made this just for you: about 3 years of PLEX price history for 27th of SEP. ...and there's always a price spike around the winter expansion....
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
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Posted - 2012.09.27 22:53:00 -
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A lot of people use PLEX as a hedge against inflation too.... that's probably worth noting. I would imagine when they want to buy something they will liquidate some of their stocks. Something as huge as the modular POS system might do it... but we are SO light on details on the winter expansion it's hard to time things. We don't even know if modular POSs are going to be in it... might have to wait until summer. ...but I digress. I suspect we are close to having some substantial devblogs laid on us though. It should make things just slightly easier to predict.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.27 23:07:00 -
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Paul Oliver wrote:So what exactly does it take now a days to make enough isk to plex a single account with only one character?
Or have we reached a point where the price of plex has rendered that impossible.
570 mil / mo?
I paid for my PLEX by doing market scamming... but I'm in the process of going legit and becoming a market speculator.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
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Posted - 2012.09.28 07:15:00 -
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I'll say one more thing about PLEX... and it's often lost in this debate but I think it's an important point. What is your time worth? If it takes more than 3 hours to make enough for a PLEX it's not worth it even if you are on minimum wage. I got the PLEX I needed to advance my sub a couple of years, but really looking back I'm almost sorry I did. I made a ton of isk doing market scams, and because zero effort was involved it seemed like an easy choice. But really... if I had to actually earn my ISK I'd just pay for the sub. I make more than minimum wage. It's not worth the time to grind. Str8 up yo. I'm here to have fun, and grinding to pay for my account doesn't sound like much fun.
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Gogela
Freeport Exploration
Loosely Affiliated Pirates Alliance
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Posted - 2012.09.29 01:32:00 -
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Zhade Lezte wrote:Gogela wrote:I know there's a lot of people that are going to take issue with me on this... but let me tell you what I think.
I think by Feb 1 2013 EvE is going to have well over a million accounts (DUST players coming in)
I think PLEX prices are going to be over 750 mil ea by mid December.
I think both of those estimates are conservative.
My advice? If you need PLEX to run your account... buy now. It's going to get crazy. This is an interesting take, though with the "buy now" at the end I highly suspect you're just a manip post in disguise. It's only right if DUST players buy PLEX from CCP in less proportion than eve players, and since they're coming from a game with pay to win elements to EVE, they may be more likely to buy PLEX from CCP, driving costs down. *snip*
For the record I have exactly zero PLEX at the moment. I don't invest in PLEX myself because when I get enough money to buy something I want I do it, which leaves me with only a bit of ISK to invest with... and small time investors like me can find far more lucrative and relatively "safe" things to put their ISK into. PLEX speculation and hedging is best done by the very rich. Personally, I don't care if PLEX is trading for a billion or 100 million. I was just saying what I think will happen.
Souisa wrote:
New players also means more potential providers of plex, and new players are not excactly likely to be making 500 million ISK a month either. If anything plex prices are going to fall because the new players will be selling PLEX rather than buying
That's a good point too... and coming from DUST they might be more likely to buy PLEX since they were buying aurum already in DUST.
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