Shirah Yuri
Allied Assault
Universal Constant Alliance
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Posted - 2011.10.31 14:39:00 -
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Thorn Galen wrote:You fail at mathematics and you fail at economics.
The system as it currently stands = diminishing returns.
Even using your own flawed example, "SOMEBODY" grows less and less, pray tell, what then ?
At the moment you are playing but not paying.
You are generating mountains of ISK and using that to pay for your accounts, you open new accounts with ISK you are making ingame (and making even more ISK to buy more PLEX which as you see now, has become more expensive) - You do the maths on that one. The "SOMEBODY" who buy Plex are lessening, hence CCP making it more attractive to the paying "SOMEBODY" to buy more Plex with special offers. The "SOMEBODY" are only willing to pay cash for (x) amount of PLEX they can sell for ISK ingame. The increased price of PLEX ingame is no accident. Open your eyes and mind.
It's all diminishing returns. You do the maths properly, you and others in this thread who blithly say I fail at maths. Clearly you have no foresight as to what is happening in terms of CCP getting hard cash from players.
Your flawed argument is that someone else has already paid for that account. Your omission is the fact that your new, freely-subbed account you bought with ISK is now generating even more ISK. So the wheel turns. People with free and ready real life cash to pay for PLEX to sell ingame are growing less by the day.
Your new, freely-subbed account (because you make so much ISK) is money CCP is never going to see as real, hard cash. There is no "1 for 1" here. My buying a PLEX and selling it ingame does not equal "your account has already been paid for". If that is as far as you can work it, then you truly "fail at math". Very short-term thinking.
I'll not chime in into trolling and failure accuses. However, I think you should respect one thing:
The PLEX price is determined by supply and demand, as is everything else in this game.
The very transaction of a PLEX does not add ISK to the game, nor drain them (other than the taxes involved in the transfer). Also, it does not grant free gametime. It's simply a trade between two players where one player gives the other player gametime (or an ingame object that is an abstract manifestation of that) that he paid for, getting ISK from another player.
What does that mean for economy?
At first glance, nothing, because no values are created, and no ISK are created or removed (in sizeable quantities). As a second-order term, liquidity in the game might be increased. The player who purchased the PLEX might or might not have had too much ISK to spend. The player who SOLD the plex is usually intending to spend the money rightaway or invest it, hence making it available for the market. So, a small increase in "liquid" ISK but hardly enough to have any gamebreaking effects, rather helping in keeping the markets going.
Does the PLEX price influence the number of GTC's bought?
If the plex price is any indication, then PLEXes are more desireable than before. Also, their price is rising, therefore the motivation to sell PLEX might even be increased. Hey, now you get more ISK for your money.
Only /IF/ the only motivation to buy GTC and sell it as PLEX is a fixed number of players wanting to get a fixed amount of ISK, then the number of PLEX created in game would decrease and prices would rise even further. But... as prices get even bigger, I am sure more players are lured into spending a quick 10 bucks into their game to get LOTS of ISK for that.
The sad thing about highly increasing PLEX prices is that you can easier P2W (pay to win) this game, because purchasing a titan with USD has never been cheaper. Also, new players might have a harder time financing their PLEX with in-game-work since it takes some time until you're able enough to fly incursions.
But that's about it.
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