Yep. I don't get it... why spend most time in game doing boring stuff to pay for a plex... I mean you can earn so much more in RL. Besides I think CCP should get paid for maintaining this game like they do. I play a lot of online games and I wish their developers put half the effort the CCP does (I'm looking at you wargaming ).

Yeah it's too late to fix this now. But I fought tooth and nail against introducing PLEX into the game. Replacing RMT with RMT was not, and is not the solution. It's just CCP shrugging and saying "Well, we can't stop it, so we might as well make some money off it."

Did PLEX stop devaluing ISK? No. Did it stop people buying SP? No. Did it stop ISK buyers? No. Did it stop anything that unofficial RMT was being blamed for? Not a bit. Did it in any way do anything to help the game? If you've been around as long as I have then you know the answer.

So here's a big fat I TOLD YOU SO, CCP!.

Mr Epeen

I dont get it, why do people play to pay for their plexes?, even in incursions it takes 3-4 hours to make the 750-850 million it costs to buy a plex.

And with mining it takes 10+ hours to get the same amount of isk.

Thats a ****** hourly wage, get a job instead, and play the game with the remaining time.

The mentality that you can pay for eve by playing the game is what have lead to these high plex prices, because everyone is buying plex to play the game.

Meanwhile the 1%'ers make about 3-4 billion an hour by working a regular job and then buying plexes to sell.

What I find interesting is that a lot of people complain because they can't plex their accounts with minimal effort. That someone else had to buy the plex for 20 Gé¼/$ is completely ignored.

In the end it it a simple question of supply/demand. If nobody is investing real life money to get a measly 300m - 500m ISK, PLEX prices will rise to an acceptable level.

A lot of people seem to think that they are entitled to get PLEX for cheap, which obviously they are not.

Wow, you got that basically completely backwards. The more isk people have, the more likely they are to buy PLEX for isk, hence increasing demand for them, hence driving up price. While on the flip side, the easier people can get isk in game, the less likely they are to pay real money for PLEX, so supply drops, which again, drives up price.

The person you are calling "mental" has it right - reducing the amount of isk people have makes them more inclined to pay their subscription with real money, as they have less spare isk (hence reducing demand for PLEXx), or more likely to buy PLEX with real money to give their wallet a boost (hence increasing supply in the market), both of which would drive down the cost of PLEX.

So a couple hours of incursions is too much for a plex?

Give me a break.