I'm not at CCP, and I am a nullsec zealot screaming "nerf high sec!", but I'll answer anyway:

Highsec PLEX'ers driving up the price with easy AFK mining isk.

Faction Warfare.

Plexes are rising because:

Multiple Events:

FW
Mining
Stagnating 0.0 (moar bears)
More vets with lots of isk and knowlage returning
Ppl with lots of isk are not rly convinced eve is worth $$ for

Just wait for the server experts to come into this thread and explain why there is no co-relation between empty server and inflation. They do such a good job proving things like this.

The isk is already in the economy. Many Eve players are sitting on large amounts of isk.

What FW does is MOVE the isk. (Same with mining for that matter). When someone who was once poor now becomes isk rich they are quite likely to invest the isk in more accounts.

I think what we're seeing is a lot of isk movement between players. If player A has 5 accounts and earns 2.5b per month and player B has 1 account and suddenly makes 80b, player B may open more accounts but player A is very likely to try to keep all his accounts going even if it means altering his play. He might play longer, switch to a more profitable activity or inject some real world money. So essentially social mobility causes plex inflation, as isk-poor people become isk-rich people more accounts will get financed by plex even if the total amount of isk in the economy doesn't rise. It's an increase in consumer spending without an increase in the money supply.

If I don't have money to pay for my account, as I often do, I find that I'm going to have to unsubscribe.

I simply have no real incentive to keep playing the game if all I'm doing is PVE just to afford to play the game.

PLEX prices need to go down otherwise this is going to become an option that is completely unavailable to me and many other players.

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.

I'm not at CCP, and I am a nullsec zealot screaming "nerf high sec!", but I'll answer anyway:

Highsec PLEX'ers driving up the price with easy AFK mining isk.

Tough...Pay up or GTFO...Life costs money...

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.
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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

Why should CCP step in for your sorry asses?

It's just 15$ a month. Pony up and pay.

If PLEX it too expensive with regards to the time taken to acquire the ISK needed, just pay money. It's $0.50 per day.

If PLEX it too expensive with regards to the time taken to acquire the ISK needed, just pay money. It's $0.50 per day.

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.

Plex prices will go down when WIS is finished and ordinary working class citizens join EvE and want to play casual "dress up barbie" and "I think I can pvp" while spending real life iskies.

Prices already seems to be lowering.

Yesterday, prices were over 570 mill in Jita and steadily rising. Now, its below 550 mill and looks to be slowly going down.

ah well, we'll see in a week, maybe someone dumped a metric ton of plexes onto the market or something :)

Naa... there is just that discounted PLEX weekend offer from CCP again. The prices will rocket after monday again.

Because they make more money per PLEX bought than per month of direct account subscription?
It's in their own best interest to keep the PLEX market healthy.

Naturally, this thread will be hijacked by the null sec zealots screaming "nerf high sec!", but does anyone at CCP, who is not part of the null sec cadre, have any idea why plex prices are out of control, and have numbers to back it up?

And money is harder to come by for some of us.

Highsec PLEX'ers driving up the price with easy AFK mining isk.

I don't think it's worth spending money on EVE when i'm not playing it, yet since i have 100+ SPcharacters i wish to keep training.