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Posted - 2011.10.05 01:20:00 -
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So, sell side orders have already breached 400m per unit in Jita - anyone want to place bets on when CCP will crash the price again with a new promotion? |
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Posted - 2011.10.05 01:25:00 -
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Brock Nelson wrote:Heard your mom breached jersey shore beach last weekend
That news is so last week. |
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Posted - 2011.10.24 01:12:00 -
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You've probably already noticed that plex are about to take a nose-dive. If you _haven't_ now would be a good time to exit that market in an orderly fashion. |
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Posted - 2011.10.24 01:55:00 -
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IceFyre S18 wrote:I am waiting one of next promotions where for 199$ I'll get 13 PLEX, T-Shirt, Mug, EVE magnet, a pen, boots, battleship model, couple of other trinkets and bunch of ingame stuff including 2 monocles.
That's the long and short of it. CCP showed their hand with the most recent promotion - they're willing to give away collectors items and ships to keep plex under 400m. The question now is how much collector crap they're willing to pile on to any sale to temporarily flood the market and push prices down. |
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Posted - 2011.10.31 23:16:00 -
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Sator Nyatt wrote:There's something else affecting the market, and that's something a little hard to quantify by us, i'm sure an EVE Dev could gather the data though.
Has there been a net reduction in the number of plex being put onto the market? And if so, what is driving this? Why does a person buy $200 worth of plex and sell it on the market? And why has that person stopped doing so of late?
You could make a guess that virtually all of the people who were willing to throw $200 at plex did so en-masse during the two discount promotions. That action flooded the market which drove speculators to hoard stacks of plex and drive the price right back up. Now, you'd normally have people willing to trickle more plex in to the market which would stabilize the price, but I'm guessing all of those people already made their space billions buying plex and dumping them during an earlier promotion.
TL;DR: My guess? CCP front-loaded plex market supply for some months with the bulk sales, now those people who would be trickling plex in on a daily basis aren't. edit: Instead, you've got speculators trickling plex back out at inflated prices. People like me, only, this time it wasn't me - I swear 
Up, up and away! (until the next sale anouncement.) |
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Posted - 2011.11.01 02:06:00 -
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Sator Nyatt wrote:You could argue that its a drying up of the market, and supplies aren't coming in, which is possible, although . With 2000+ plex traded a day, accounting for approximately 1/5 of the game time needed, you could make the argument that not all the plex being traded is being consumed.
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Without the fresh sellers coming in its probably a lot of traders just passing plex around. 2000 (in jita alone) plex traded daily would account for about 1/5 of the subscription base, but without any numbers on how many people CC their account vs. PLEX, amount consumed per day versus traded per day is just a complete blind guess. A couple of things you should know about the plex market:
A significant chunk of daily trading is margin flipping. I spent a day poopsocking jita plex once when I was sick and flipped something like 500 units by myself. (Note: don't bother, you might as well go work at mcdonalds and buy some plex with dollars instead - you'll make more isk per hour and have more fun.) Considering that Jita daily volume is around ~2k or ~2.5k that means I had my fingers on around half or a third of the daily transactions in the market. I _think_ that's about how much of the market is margin flipping on any given day, and obviously it's going to fluctuate.
Unless there's a big price move in a single day, like a crash, most of the time plex doesn't go from trader to trader it goes from plex producer to trader and trader to plex consumer. Most of the time there isn't enough profit in buying from another trader unless, like I said before, there's a big market move in a single day - there simply isn't enough margin to split with another party.
Also, totally not debating that I'm guessing, short supply due to CCP flushing out all the plex producers early is the best guess I can make with all the info I have.
edit: if, say, 40% of the market on any given day is margin flipping that means 60% is buying/selling for consumption or stockpiling - the question then is how much of it is consumption, how much is speculation and how much is as a hedge against isk inflation. |
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Posted - 2011.11.01 14:53:00 -
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rogueclone2 wrote:to CCP Spitfire
are we going to see a plex cap soon ?
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