Ladies and Gentleman, Plex prices are sitting on 499 sells in Jita. Who will be the first to buy for 500mil?

Let's get that sucker to 600, which is the price point where I just work a Sunday and buy 5 GTCs with the money to sell for ISK.

Come on scrubs, break open that wallet!

well... lets calculate how much now NeX items costs in ISK... XD

The winter expansion is looking so good right now that I am not surprised anymore how high it is skyrocketing.

Tho seriously they need to change incursions to remove the isk faucet that is really affecting Plex over time.

Counter.
CCP Nerf Supercapitals, a ship class that many pilots had simply dropped $500-$1000 on their CCs to buy plex to buy said Supercapitals.

Supercapital demand tanks. PLEX supply tanks.

500m? lol i guess im taking a break from this game =P

between CCP's raising plex prices and their pvp nerfs, i dont know why im still here

500m? lol i guess im taking a break from this game =P

between CCP's raising plex prices and their pvp nerfs, i dont know why im still here

Literally
4500aurum = 100million
100million = 1/5th of a plex
1 plex = 4500 aurum

If this rebalances there are huge profit opportunities.

It's just goons using their internal knowledge of future development to cash in on the rising PLEX prices as they already know how awesome the winter expansion will be and a large amount of resubs are expected. *tinfoil*

isnt 1 PLEX = 3500 aur???
then follows...
1 PLEX = 500 mill ISK
1 cheapest boots are 1000 aur
so 1 boots are 143 mil ISK

well i like it... ill sell my items that i bought... :)

so PLEX horders want to make additional 200+m off desperate ppl. and push it further yet.

so why buy and abide their greedy games? Don't buy PLEX for isk unless you can afford the ridiculous prices.

Supply and Demand.

It may be supply and demand. Only thing that drives the Eve economy is supply/demand , and speculation, which is just a derivative of the other 2.

But it does not change the fact that some of us may be in dire straits. I cannot afford to pay for the game with real world currency, and have paid for my accounts with in game plexes for over a year on my 2 accounts. Given the current price increase trend, I may simply not be able to afford to play the game soon.

It is truly Adam Smith's version of economics.

So what are you trying to do that is worth working 1 day a week to spend on Internet spaceships?

You don't have 30$ a month but have enough free time to grind for one billion isk?

You don't have 30$ a month but have enough free time to grind for one billion isk?

It may be supply and demand. Only thing that drives the Eve economy is supply/demand , and speculation, which is just a derivative of the other 2.

But it does not change the fact that some of us may be in dire straits. I cannot afford to pay for the game with real world currency, and have paid for my accounts with in game plexes for over a year on my 2 accounts. Given the current price increase trend, I may simply not be able to afford to play the game soon.

It is truly Adam Smith's version of economics.

You don't have 30$ a month but have enough free time to grind for one billion isk?

I can afford to pay for the subscriptions, however, spending 50+ dollars per month on a videogame is pretty ******* stupid IMO.

I already dislike the idea of subscription games. Eve is the only game thats made me cave in and pay monthly. I would consider 15 a month tops. That is close to 200 dollars a year for a videogame. I could afford a couple more accounts, however i chose not to.

The only reason i have alt accounts is because i can fund them with PLEX. However, this is going out the door fast, and will only result in lost subscriptions for CCP.

500m? lol i guess im taking a break from this game =P

between CCP's raising plex prices and their pvp nerfs, i dont know why im still here

I can afford to pay for the subscriptions, however, spending 50+ dollars per month on a videogame is pretty ******* stupid IMO.

Why? How much do you play and how much will it compare to other activities in $/h. I burn $50 easily on quality beer one night out with my friends.

Disclaimer: I currently only pay for one account with Gé¼ but could afford more if I wanted too.

Sorry but if you pay over 50 dollars monthly for the same videogame? You are extremely irresponsible with your money

SWTOR is to EVE what rabbits are to airplanes, little one.

If you look the amount of daily plex trading in 1 year market history, the demand has not been rising too much.

Either there is some severe market manipulation going on or the supply has dropped dramatically over past few months.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - wouldn't be the 1st time.

I believe that if most eve players agreed now not to buy even a single plex when the price is above 400m, certain inviduals would lose healthy amount of iskies which they have invested to the bubble.

This is like wall street deja-vu eve-edition experience which is going on.... Just refuse to buy and you will win.

I believe that if most eve players agreed now not to buy even a single plex when the price is above 400m, certain inviduals would lose healthy amount of iskies which they have invested to the bubble.

This is like wall street deja-vu eve-edition experience which is going on.... Just refuse to buy and you will win.

I stopped purchasing plex for my alt once they went over 370.

I always find myself saying this to myself too. I don't get it.

Things sometimes happen in the current economic climate in the world that makes things a little harder...like taking pay cuts so deep you have to start making cuts in just about every aspect of your life to stay afloat...not everyone has money coming out of their asses you know.

maybe CCP want to drive out all those people, who do not pay real money for their game?

and then increase NEX shop and Gold ammunition... big business, you know?

you do realise that even if we pay with plex, someone bought that plex for us with real money?

People stopped selling PLEX to buy super caps with the incoming winter nerf.

While it's a little far-fetched to expect CCP to release numbers, it might be possible to hear from GTC resellers like BC and SC to hear how sales are going. I think a lot of the PLEX that are sold for isk (rather than redeemed by the purchaser) are created via GTC. A decline in GTC sales might indicate the lower supply of PLEX.

If anyone from those sites is willing to pass along that info, I'd be curious.

No, a lot of people really do not understand this.

If it is indeed speculation, it should be easy to fix.

Maybe add a period of 30 days before you can sell or trade a plex you just bought ?

You're never going to get numbers from these guys.

CCP has, until recently, put the brakes on plex prices in game. They haven't done so recently. The question is why? I believe they want to increase their subscriber numbers now that NeX/Incarna development is shelved as they were both tide to WoD development.

During CCP's push to make us like Incarna they were wanting to switch to an MT model. Since that is all going away I would expect that they want to reclaim the subscribers they lost to solidify their financials. As much as the gaming industry wants us to believe MT is the wave of the future, I have serious doubts that MT is as rosy a picture as painted especially in a lingering worldwide economic slump. Afterall, having a subscriptions means one can plan on a fixed fee, budget it in, not have to worry about farming to afford to play for free so that they can spend more time working to make real money.

This is, of course, only my opinion of it.

I can afford to pay for the subscriptions, however, spending 50+ dollars per month on a videogame is pretty ******* stupid IMO.

I already dislike the idea of subscription games. Eve is the only game thats made me cave in and pay monthly. I would consider 15 a month tops. That is close to 200 dollars a year for a videogame. I could afford a couple more accounts, however i chose not to.

The only reason i have alt accounts is because i can fund them with PLEX. However, this is going out the door fast, and will only result in lost subscriptions for CCP.

Why would you want to stop speculations?

Game over for me, then.

I stopped purchasing plex for my alt once they went over 370.

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CCP Nerf Supercapitals, a ship class that many pilots had simply dropped $500-$1000 on their CCs to buy plex to buy said Supercapitals.

Supercapital demand tanks. PLEX supply tanks.

Am i the only person who thinks thats nucking futs?

Only because you have no idea of how many people were spending real money to be a big player in the game....
In Delve, 3 of the stations we put up were paid for by a player, with lots of spare cash....