CCP start losing the instant an account closes down, because it means either means a direct reduction in income or a reduction in demand for income-generating PLEX.

And this is the myth we need to squash. Sure, losing subscription hurts CCP immediately, but not PLEXed accounts. The effect those accounts have are entirely implied, not actually witnessed. Since such things are not going to directly hurt PLEX revenue for CCP, we cannot quantify those events as significant enough to impact PLEX pricing by themselves.

What you can do with PLEX is why people buy it with ISK. ISK is why people sell PLEX. The higher the value of them, the more that will be purchased from CCP.

It doesn't matter how many are actually on the ingame market, it really doesn't so long as people keep buying them.

That said, I still don't see that CCP could consider PLEXed accounts going inactive as a loss of revenue. Sure they can make projections about it, but that doesn't actually change anything.

Many people buy and sell PLEX in bulk, so those transactions aren't necessarily going to show a fluid market history.

Nice, it's good to see that the 100% proven fact that it is possible CCP could be manipulating it's own PLEX prices

since it is impossible to prove that it's not a possibility.

Nice, it's good to see that the 100% proven fact that it is possible CCP could be manipulating it's own PLEX prices to rise is not considered rumour mongering, which I never doubted would be considered so since it is impossible to prove that it's not a possibility.

Possible? Sure. A lot of things are possible.

Likely? No. Things like that tend to come out, I can't see it being worth it for CCP.

I once knew someone who believed in Bigfoot and that there was another gunman on the Kennedy assassination. My response was to explain a theory, that I had just created, that Bigfoot was the shooter on the grassy knoll. It would explain why he has been so difficult to find. (The CIA helps him to hide - quid pro quo.)

Possible? Sure. Likely? No. I will admit, though, that your theory is far more likely than this one.

CCP is in the same boat with plex. They can't actually show the net profit off of a plex until it's actually redeemed and out of the system. If anything, CCP would want to drive the in-game cost of PLEX downwards. The faster the plex cycles out and gets redeemed, the quicker CCP has solid numbers to use for income (Plex redeemed out of system today nets $19.95 minus, lets say, $4 per account/month in expenses. Maybe in a month, those expenses go up to $7 per account/month).

Come to think of it, this finally provides a sane reason to keep the NeX around and trying to fill it with valuable goods even though the code was never finished and the context that was supposed provide that value has been all but abandoned.

Converting to AUR means that they can finally recognise the profit and yet, in-game, almost nothing has happened. The player now has an item (or a parallel not-quite-currency) that is worth roughly as much as the PLEX was and should be a happy camper, and the liability of the PLEX is finally taken care of. And that's on top of the expenses for the service rendered being pretty much zero.

... so they pay more to CCCP

Also, presumably, PLEX bought to buy any kind of client service are being cashed in very quickly rather than stashed away. The only one I can think of where you might want to have a stockpile of PLEX to be used later is the multi-character training, since you can't apply all at once and have the training permission tick down unprompted for months. And even then, there is an upper limit when dual training no longer becomes a sensible option compared to second account + character transfer, which once again puts the player back on a schedule of (almost) immediately exercise their options.

Speculation on the ISK price seems to be the only PLEX use where there's any real value in holding on to them and causing grey hairs for CCP's accountants.

You can have them tick down now for multiple months. No time limit any more that I am aware of.

Ah, yes! That's communism for you.

Hint for those too young to remember.

CCCP is the Cyrillic spelling of USSR.

This smells all very overcomplicated to me. Heres what I think happened:

Dude 1 is looking for PLEX. Going rate is 600 mill. He buys it.
Dude 2 is selling PLEX. Has plenty of time, so puts it up for 610
Dude 3 sees selling for 610 and puts it up for 615
Dude 4 only sees the 615 cos all 600 and 610 were sold. He puts it up for 620

In the meantime PLEX is being sold higher and higher. ISK has inflated like mad. It will get worse when refining changes hits. There will be even less goods compared to the total ISK pool. As of summer the prices will rise more.
So CCP has a major influence. But its not directly and its not planned or deliberately used to influence PLEX-pricing.

PLEX price is up so much because ISK is worth alot less.

Wow, Tippias comment got edited by an ISD for a personal attack.
In some other thread, I spotted Tippia making a spelling mistake.

And Chribba seems a little more aggressive than usual.

I'm female and a much nicer person now!

Humanity is changing!

The horror ...........

I want to lick your face now that it has changed

That's ... very nice.

Let's not derail the thread.