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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.08.07 21:09:04 -
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At the end of the day, I think CCP are going to be confronted with the necessity of lowering their price point. It may seem counter-intuitive, but they're better off with 15 customers paying $10 each than they are with 10 customers paying $15 each. And not just a bit better - a lot better off.
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.08.07 21:22:01 -
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Tippia wrote:Also, can we get the difference between GÇ£lessGÇ¥ and GÇ£fewerGÇ¥ right, please?
Hopefully
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.09.15 19:05:00 -
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I'll say it again: CCP need to work out where on the Laffer Curve PLEX stand at the moment. Because if there are two revenue equilibira, with one having a much higher number of PLEX being consumed, then CCP unquestionably and obviously need to choose the higher.
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.09.15 19:39:55 -
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Tippia wrote:Malcanis wrote:I'll say it again: CCP need to work out where on the Laffer Curve PLEX stand at the moment. Because if there are two revenue equilibira, with one having a much higher number of PLEX being consumed, then CCP unquestionably and obviously need to choose the higher. Laffer curve? Probably somewhere around the kneeGǪ
Yeah I know that the Laffer Curve is questionable to say the least in RL economic models (A curve in just two dimensions to model a modern economy? Really? ), but it's an adequate metaphor for the current PLEX situation. Not least because there's no substitute good.
Although CCP have done their laudable best to treat PLEX as "just another" in game item, the fact is, it isn't just another in game item. It doesnt matter a jot to the long term health of EVE what the long term price trends of eg: Bhaalgorns or A-type EANMs or whatever is, but it matters a whole ******* lot what the time cost of PLEX is. As any ecologist will happily confirm to you, the diversity of an ecosystem strongly correlates with its resilience to catastrophe. Likewise, an EVE with 200,000 customers generating an average of $275/yr each is a considerably less resilient EVE than one with 300,000 customers generating $150/yr each.
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.09.16 20:08:03 -
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Inheritance or other privilege does the trick pretty well. Or luck.
Anyway, I've become part of the solution and just put 6 PLEX on the market in Jita.
No need to thank me, your ISK will be thanks enough.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his ISK/hr depends upon his not understanding it!"
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.09.16 21:28:44 -
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Aaron wrote:I think that Eve has become a capitalist society, CCP want too much for plex lets face it, in the UK a plex is -ú16.99 which is -ú7.00 more than the monthly sub which has prompted the plex sellers to sell at a high price.
Plex prices do not affect me because I sub my 2 accounts. All I have done is read what most of the plex buyers are saying and I have come to the conclusion that we will see numbers drop yet again. CCP should listen to the people who plex their account, it does seem as if they are being ignored.
We will see lots of people cancel their 2nd and 3rd accounts because they are no longer able to generate much profit for the player, I get that people can diversify and go into other areas of the game like FW, WH etc.
Has CCP made any statement about revising the real life cost of plex?
I ask this because I can see this game being ruined, Level with me here, why is the RL plex price an extra 70% on top of the sub price?
Agreed; that price differential is indefensible. CCP urgently need to get more people logging in to keep the game healthy, and dropping the RL price of PLEX to a similar, albeit slightly higher, level than a 1 month sub would be a big step towards that.
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Malcanis
Vanishing Point. The Initiative.
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Posted - 2015.09.17 20:14:45 -
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Market McSelling Alt wrote:
In fact, CCP gets MORE cash from Plexers than they do monthly subs.
The last figures I saw were that CCP get somewhere between 25-33% of their income from PLEX. Do you have a more recent source?
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