But if prices rise just enough, they maximize profit from people who are willing to trade dollars/euros for PLEX (because they now get more ISK per dollar/euro than ever), without forcing people to quit. The secret is in finding that balance.

The capacity to commit an action does not mean one has or will commit that action.

If I have a gun, I could shoot someone. That does not mean if anyone around me is shot, I did it.

I have a car. I have gone above the posted speed limit. That does not mean every time you see a car going over the pisted speed limit, I'm behind the wheel.


CCP has the capacity to make and give out tristans. They will reimburse ship losses due to glitches, including tristans. That does not mean the stash of 30 tristans I have saved for post winter expansion was from ccp cause they favor RvB. It was because i have an indy alt who made and delivered them.

OP... You can't make a leap in logic that just because someone can do X, them they have done X. Heck, you have the capacity to biomass your character... Well... By your logic this shoukd already have been done.

Its not false, u are driving plex prices up, u are driving the market up and u making it very expensive to play this game

why?

because people are quittingt because eve is pure crap than adds more layers of crap!

Now, this isn't a complaint. I want PLEX to be as expensive as possible because I don't think 'perse auki' scrubs should be able to fly for free.

That said, PLEX price surges are easy to explain.

A PLEX is simply a 'gift certificate' for game time. A player pays currency and gets a PLEX.
The PLEX represents a promise from CCP provide 30 days of server resources (or AURUM) to the bearer.
Destruction of PLEX is the equivalent of tearing up these 'gift certificates' - or flushing them down the toilet.
This makes CCP happy because they collected $$$ without having to provide a service. The gift certificate, though paid for, never will be redeemed.

So,
-CCP can create or remove ISK from the game at will. (We know this because of negative ISK accounts reported for RMTers.)
-PLEX are available on the open market for ISK, and CCP can create or destroy alts at will.

CCP simply creates ISK out of thin air, then buys them off the market (injecting ISK into the game), and then trashes them.

Result? PLEX prices go up.
CCP then invites players to buy more PLEX - for those players to sell on the market for ever higher amounts of ISK.

Of course, ISK inflation results as CCP pumps ISK into the system via PLEX buys.
But why would they care? They are earning cash without having to provide valuable 'server resources' for that cash.
All they have to do is provide ISK which is 'free'.....even though it erodes the buying power of everyone 'honestly' playing the game.

Simple. Corrupt. Profitable. And CCP is easily capable of it.
(Remember, this is the same company that quietly provided T2 Blueprints to favored Alliances. Then....BANNED Kugu for discovering the cancer and going public with it.)

Now, this isn't a complaint. I want PLEX to be as expensive as possible because I don't think 'perse auki' scrubs should be able to fly for free.

That said, PLEX price surges are easy to explain.

A PLEX is simply a 'gift certificate' for game time. A player pays currency and gets a PLEX.
The PLEX represents a promise from CCP provide 30 days of server resources (or AURUM) to the bearer.
Destruction of PLEX is the equivalent of tearing up these 'gift certificates' - or flushing them down the toilet.
This makes CCP happy because they collected $$$ without having to provide a service. The gift certificate, though paid for, never will be redeemed.

So,
-CCP can create or remove ISK from the game at will. (We know this because of negative ISK accounts reported for RMTers.)
-PLEX are available on the open market for ISK, and CCP can create or destroy alts at will.

CCP simply creates ISK out of thin air, then buys them off the market (injecting ISK into the game), and then trashes them.

Result? PLEX prices go up.
CCP then invites players to buy more PLEX - for those players to sell on the market for ever higher amounts of ISK.

Of course, ISK inflation results as CCP pumps ISK into the system via PLEX buys.
But why would they care? They are earning cash without having to provide valuable 'server resources' for that cash.
All they have to do is provide ISK which is 'free'.....even though it erodes the buying power of everyone 'honestly' playing the game.

Simple. Corrupt. Profitable. And CCP is easily capable of it.
(Remember, this is the same company that quietly provided T2 Blueprints to favored Alliances. Then....BANNED Kugu for discovering the cancer and going public with it.)

Now, this isn't a complaint. I want PLEX to be as expensive as possible because I don't think 'perse auki' scrubs should be able to fly for free.

That said, PLEX price surges are easy to explain.

A PLEX is simply a 'gift certificate' for game time. A player pays currency and gets a PLEX.
The PLEX represents a promise from CCP provide 30 days of server resources (or AURUM) to the bearer.
Destruction of PLEX is the equivalent of tearing up these 'gift certificates' - or flushing them down the toilet.
This makes CCP happy because they collected $$$ without having to provide a service. The gift certificate, though paid for, never will be redeemed.

So,
-CCP can create or remove ISK from the game at will. (We know this because of negative ISK accounts reported for RMTers.)
-PLEX are available on the open market for ISK, and CCP can create or destroy alts at will.

CCP simply creates ISK out of thin air, then buys them off the market (injecting ISK into the game), and then trashes them.

Result? PLEX prices go up.
CCP then invites players to buy more PLEX - for those players to sell on the market for ever higher amounts of ISK.

Of course, ISK inflation results as CCP pumps ISK into the system via PLEX buys.
But why would they care? They are earning cash without having to provide valuable 'server resources' for that cash.
All they have to do is provide ISK which is 'free'.....even though it erodes the buying power of everyone 'honestly' playing the game.

Simple. Corrupt. Profitable. And CCP is easily capable of it.
(Remember, this is the same company that quietly provided T2 Blueprints to favored Alliances. Then....BANNED Kugu for discovering the cancer and going public with it.)

I must be the only one with a job.

I love the rising of the PLEX price, like it does every year towards winter.

800 million ISK ... WOOHOOO that'd be awesome, i'd buy ten for lousy 200 bucks ! :D

Get a job !

Ooookay, perhaps you can demonstrate how....

A) CCP is incapable of doing this?
B) one could prove it without becoming a CCP employee, or hacking (and getting banned)?
C) this does not generate $$$ for CCP. (through reducing server loads by tearing up PLEX, and encouraging more purchases?
D) how CCP isn't motivated by $$$?

I think y ou guys are all missing the point.

If you think the average casual player will spend 20hours a day ratting to raise isk to buy plex your crazy. Eve is suppose to be fun. Not a second job. If the mission botters are ratting 23/7 the regular player can't compete against that. If CCP is fixing the plex price to combat these botters this will only hurt the casual player. Risky for ccp to go this direction.

I've pay via credit card but I like to use the game plex from ratting or asests I've gathered to pay for this game. But I won't pay for these outragous plex prices. So If I'm going to continue paying.. I rather buy a one time pay game.. like Borderlands 2 or new X-COM. I'll come back when things settle down.. For now prices are nuts. and if they don't get regulated... oh well.

Lol and I thought 425mil isk for a plex was expensive.. hahaaa..

I'm very sorry. OP is off his meds.

I could give a more complete list of his issues but that was given under confession.

Somebody simply accumulates plexes, making a market pyramid, then sell plexes back, since they are hard commodity.

That somebody is you - inflation averse carebear. To turn all ISKs into fixed and stable plex and protect accumulated wealth, while at the same time make life less enjoyable for poorer guys who do not have such opportunity.

I think y ou guys are all missing the point.

If you think the average casual player will spend 20hours a day ratting to raise isk to buy plex your crazy. Eve is suppose to be fun. Not a second job. If the mission botters are ratting 23/7 the regular player can't compete against that. If CCP is fixing the plex price to combat these botters this will only hurt the casual player. Risky for ccp to go this direction.

I've pay via credit card but I like to use the game plex from ratting or asests I've gathered to pay for this game. But I won't pay for these outragous plex prices. So If I'm going to continue paying.. I rather buy a one time pay game.. like Borderlands 2 or new X-COM. I'll come back when things settle down.. For now prices are nuts. and if they don't get regulated... oh well.

Lol and I thought 425mil isk for a plex was expensive.. hahaaa..

Now, this isn't a complaint. I want PLEX to be as expensive as possible because I don't think 'perse auki' scrubs should be able to fly for free.

That said, PLEX price surges are easy to explain.

A PLEX is simply a 'gift certificate' for game time. A player pays currency and gets a PLEX.
The PLEX represents a promise from CCP provide 30 days of server resources (or AURUM) to the bearer.
Destruction of PLEX is the equivalent of tearing up these 'gift certificates' - or flushing them down the toilet.
This makes CCP happy because they collected $$$ without having to provide a service. The gift certificate, though paid for, never will be redeemed.

So,
-CCP can create or remove ISK from the game at will. (We know this because of negative ISK accounts reported for RMTers.)
-PLEX are available on the open market for ISK, and CCP can create or destroy alts at will.

CCP simply creates ISK out of thin air, then buys them off the market (injecting ISK into the game), and then trashes them.

Result? PLEX prices go up.
CCP then invites players to buy more PLEX - for those players to sell on the market for ever higher amounts of ISK.

Of course, ISK inflation results as CCP pumps ISK into the system via PLEX buys.
But why would they care? They are earning cash without having to provide valuable 'server resources' for that cash.
All they have to do is provide ISK which is 'free'.....even though it erodes the buying power of everyone 'honestly' playing the game.

Simple. Corrupt. Profitable. And CCP is easily capable of it.
(Remember, this is the same company that quietly provided T2 Blueprints to favored Alliances. Then....BANNED Kugu for discovering the cancer and going public with it.)

Get a life!

OP... You can't make a leap in logic that just because someone can do X, them they have done X. Heck, you have the capacity to biomass your character... Well... By your logic this shoukd already have been done.