GreenSeed
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Posted - 2011.11.12 01:59:00 -
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MeestaPenni wrote:Tippia wrote:Killgor wrote:The ability to spend cold hard cash and receive plex, which in turn can be sold in game for isk has really really devalued its worth. Now, you do understand that it's the amount of ISK that devalues the ISK in that case, not the PLEX? No. The PLEX does in fact devalue ISK. Where it used to take several weeks, months, or a lucky officer spawn to accumulate a cool billion in ISK...now it can be done in as little time as it takes me to buy a couple of GTCs and convert. The time value this game used to have doesn't mean jackshit anymore.
You donGÇÖt know the meaning of the word, do you?
to keep the story short, only creating ISK devaluates it, and isk can only be created via bounties/mission rewards be it on agent missions or incursions.
ThereGÇÖs absolutely NO way to create isk on this game apart from that. None. buying one plex for RL money and then selling it for ISK DoesnGÇÖt create ISK, having 30 PI planets running 24/7 doesnGÇÖt create a single ISK, and not even 300 mining bots create a single ISK, regardless of how many days they spend mining. They just extract commodities which are then exchanged for ISK.
In fact, ALL those activities actually destroy ISK, plex sales are taxed, PI is taxed and good ol mining uses ships and modules that were taxed on production, and commodities sold ARE TAXED.
Again, only bounties and rewards generate ISK, anything else is just isk changing hands. so, is it "inflation" the problem? Absolutely NOT. ThereGÇÖs some of it, but that not the real problem.
the problem is simple, YOU canGÇÖt pay plex prices. ppl that sell plex DONT care if you canGÇÖt, because other ppl WILL pay 450, and will pay 500, and will also eventually pay 550 for plex. Now, this has nothing to do with inflation, this has EVERYTHING to do with a the fiction of a free market, when in fact its a free sellers market. They, the plex sellers DONT CARE. They will list plex for 500m and when all the 450 sell orders get bought ppl will have no option but to buy em for 500 or lose the subscription.
Now, THIS is your problem, not inflation. Your problem is that a limited comodity, one you depend on, has its price set not on supply/demand equilibrium, but on how desperate are you. And now, i welcome you to 21st century capitalism.
now this situation is also CCP's problem, because ccp cant set a ceiling for plex because ppl wonGÇÖt pay money for it unless that ceiling is adjusted/indexed to what they perceive to be the inflation (which often is just that typical old lady syndrome "oh in the good ol days i could buy a meal for a nickel.") nor can they introduce plex on the market and compete with sellers. So the solution is actually even more simple.
DO NOTHING.
i would never advocate for liberalism, yet given the rules of the problem at hand, thereGÇÖs no way to interfere without destroying both the process and its negative effect. plex is what it is, an alternative to actually paying for a subscription.
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