For a very long time i didn't see so many 100mln + sp characters sold like now each week.
Market is just flooded in them, and you can easily buy a 50-80mln sp char way below the price , especially when you calculate :
1 plex = 1.5mln sp = 800mln ISK

I wonder why :
- people stop playing
- people reduce their character number because of the plex prices.

Is this next sign about bad health of EVE online?

For a very long time i didn't see so many 100mln + sp characters sold like now each week.
Market is just flooded in them, and you can easily buy a 50-80mln sp char way below the price , especially when you calculate :
1 plex = 1.5mln sp = 800mln ISK

I wonder why :
- people stop playing
- people reduce their character number because of the plex prices.

Is this next sign about bad health of EVE online?

For a very long time i didn't see so many 100mln + sp characters sold like now each week.

GǪwhich probably didn't have anything to do with, for a long time, there was no real industry in building characters for resale, much less time enough to bring them up to 100M+ SP.

Also, if people stop playing, they don't sell their characters GÇö after all, what would be the point?

For a very long time i didn't see so many 100mln + sp characters sold like now each week.
Market is just flooded in them, and you can easily buy a 50-80mln sp char way below the price , especially when you calculate :
1 plex = 1.5mln sp = 800mln ISK

I wonder why :
- people stop playing
- people reduce their character number because of the plex prices.

Is this next sign about bad health of EVE online?

1) EVE is 11+ years old. It's normal to see high SP characters on market;
2) Many characters on the bazaar are not mains, but rather alts;
3) Alts are or created with a purpose in mind. CCP has done some extensive re-balancing of many aspects in the game. Every time there's re-balance there is an increased interest in certain types of characters depending on the part of the game that's being changed. Some players use this increased demand to sell their characters at higher price than usual. On the other hand, refocusing gameplay to some other area (which is more frequent at re-balancing) produces offering of other types of characters on the market that the player won't use any more.

Overall, you can say that characters are being sold because EVE is dying, but at the same time I can say that the market and the game is more alive because of the increased activity on character bazaar market. Neither me or you can claim for sure that either of us is right or wrong based on character bazaar activity alone.

You don't sound like you actually have lots of experience in the matter, like Mr. Epeen for example.

ok

You can have 3 alts on account.
Sell 100mil character , or spend 2 plexes to move it to other account , and no more need for subscribing , while you can still use it.

Suspend account ... and wait for better days.

Because of the high plex prices i have just done this. I moved a 25 million sp industry al to one of my other accounts, and closed that account.

So CCP is down one account.

Hey, its not my problem. If plex prices go down again to 400-500 million i gladly restart that account or take another third one. Its their call. :)

Well you are not selling character useful to you.
Alts are mostly <20mil sp characters, specialized, or any level sp industrial characters.

Eve will not die, but it is not in good health either.
Current number of active people - those who bother to login - is similar to this that we had in 2008.

If people are leaving , i wonder why.

Yes sov needs fixing.
Power projection also discourages people from login.

Do you think that we are loosing players because CCP is making eve flat.
Since 2008 ccp made eve simpler ( and it is still in this process).

Maybe we are loosing players that liked the complexity of eve.

I'm pro-Amarr I'm all for slave trade. Works as intended TM.

"hurr durr eve is dying"

Some people train toons specifically to sell them and make bank.

I would prefer that CCP made most of the cyno chars obsolete, not alts that actually do something.
But you are right this might be the reason.

[quote=Anthar Thebess]Also, if people stop playing, they don't sell their characters GÇö after all, what would be the point?

To get ISK to plex their main?

I pretty much quit playing since about 6 weeks ago and have been thinking of selling an alt so I don't have to log on and bore myself to death grinding out a plex.

Why did you quit playing, and why are you still plexing your main?