PLEX is apparently 3.9B on the Chinese server. 630M is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of PLEX price possibilites.

What Chinese server?
Never heard of it . Rather suspicious.

PLEX is apparently 3.9B on the Chinese server. 630M is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of PLEX price possibilites.

For real?!

I played with 3 accounts using plex but at those prices i'm playing only 1 account and i wait for better prices to use the 2 others. Until then they are sleeping.

[quote=Alan Darmazaf] Perhaps if enough of us quit over it CCP might do something but otherwise inflation will be rampant in another MMO (cough) SWG (/cough)

There are a lot of us who pay with plex others bought, but CCP doesnt care, they made their money the instant the plex was purchased

and if I dont buy it from the other pilot, someone else will.

Perhaps if enough of us quit over it CCP might do something

but otherwise inflation will be rampant in another MMO

CCP doesnt care, they made their money the instant the plex was purchased

377k

If I read the CCP Consolidated Financial Statement for 2013 correctly, this is actually not true.

You might say it's only a minor difference, but according to section 3.7.2 "in-game curreny" is recognized when it has been consumed. And since PLEX is clearly not covered in section 3.7.1 "subscription fees" or in any of the other sections under 3.7 I'd say it's viewed as being in-game currency. This view seems to be supported by the ammount of deferred revenue. US$ 6.6M seems to be a bit much for just AUR alone.

EDIT:
Btw, this allows to make an educated guess about the total number of PLEX in the game.
If we take into account that PLEX is probably largely sold at reduced prices and assume that the total amount of AUR is not significant I'd assume an average value of 1 PLEX around US$ 17.50. With that we get an estimate of more then 377k PLEX, which are available as a tradeable item in the game in December 2013.

I can't remember having seen an official statement about the ammount of PLEX in-game, but 377k at least seems to be plausible.

See note 23.

Could it be that "subscriptions" means PLEX and GTC, "in-game purchases not yet consumed" means AUR and "sale of goods not yet delivered" are GTC codes already sold but not yet claimed?

Personally I would love to see some sort of mechanic that would discourage PLEX hoarding. For example, there could be a PLEX-unique additional tax that would be 'time dependent'.

It's maybe time for me to try another space game who's out this year. If i have to pay to play i'm gonna pay for a new game and not a 10 years old one !

Also, there's no "redistribution to the poor" and no "popular republic".

Gotta find them in real life, where they show how good they are.

Getting back to PLEX, though, I've just logged in and there is now about a 60 mil buy/sell difference in Amarr - which based on my experience smells of manipulation of some sort as the channel is normally 10-20mil.

Managed to flip a couple, but not going to get any deeper as this doesn't feel right to me.

apparently the guys that have cash to spend on a game have decided that they don't want to

Which is entirely understandable. The economic outlook over the last year, both in the real world and in the land of internet spaceships, has been less than encouraging. It should come as no suprise to anyone that less people want to put real life money in to EVE, which means more isk chasing fewer PLEXes.

I"m not 100% sure about the "economy" of the outside world.. . .it could be just a downward drift in "whats a fair price for a game?"

I"m not 100% sure about the "economy" of the outside world.. . .it could be just a downward drift in "whats a fair price for a game?", and more specifically "what's a fair price for game microtransaction benefits (which is basically how people using $ to isk look at the transaction)


There are all sorts of offseting things ... benefit of plex accounts to game goals on the demand side...


.... need for expensive ships to motivate putting extra $ into the game from need of ISK and lack of time who are having fun.


The in game "economy" I think is based on which ships are popular to fly and get blown up , and how many are getting blown up and whether or not there are corp reimbursement programs etc.

If everyone is flying T1 cruisers for roams... or interceptors... there isn't much motivation for a casual player who would use $ instead of farming, to use those $ as much.

10 intercepters blown up a month > 1 plex is going to let you cover 2 months.

10 T3 ships getting blown up a month? (ouch) > you'd need 5 plex a months 10 times the intercepter route.

That sort of thing isn't about player activity necessary but FADs, Fashions Trends it what players are doing at a given time.


The buff of intercepters and previous buff of T1 cruisers meant the portion of the corps flying those for fun made it so their members flying fleet disciplined fits didn't need to use nearly as much $ to play and brought less plex to market ?