I have a better question, why do people think the plex market is getting manipulated? Think about it, something like 1,000 plex changes hands in Jita every day. That's more than one trillion isk. I suppose if the largest groups banded together they could stir the pot for a few days, but eventually the sheer torrent of supply and demand would equalize it and make it unprofitable. Plex is created by players, and only consumed by players. You can't cut off the supply, or refuse to use it. It's mostly a free market. The price is set mostly by supply and demand, and if you want to change the price, you have to change one of those. Changing the supply would involve lowering the cost to get plex, killing CCP's revenue. Changing the demand would be lowering the amount of plex consumed, also hurting CCP's income, or simply when plex gets to a point high enough where supply and demand stabilize.
The people that stockpile large stores of plex are, as I understand it, speculating that the price will go up, i.e. that demand is more than supply. Except for the recent dip, this idea has been mostly true. When the demand starts to lessen from the increased cost, the price will stop going up.

You shouldn't just change a free market because you believe that a price is too high. That's the price set by the free market, where supply=demand. If you purposefully change it, then its no longer a free market.

exactly this.

The price is high because people are paying for it, if people didnt pay for it the price would drop till people did.

Also how do you put the value of an expiring plex that someone may want to convert to aurum, or make a character transfer? or is the value the same for a plex with 6month and one with 2 days?

"oh look sorry i cant do a character transfer because there is no full plexes on the market"

character bazaar trading is a thing so you can argue it is gameplay

No I can't. The buying and selling of eve characters is a RL intrusion into the new eden alternate reality. It's a RL tranasaction using game currency. Character ownership is a RL thing, not a game thing. If my character could use it's vast quantities of isk to purchase control of your character in game and all you could do is pay the subscription and watch what my character does with your character, then it would be game play.

https://xkcd.com/849/

character bazaar is part of the game, people make income from it so its just the same as me using rl money to purchase plex to sell on the market, which is also a rl transaction, so can we just remove plex too?

all your doing is reducing the use for plex to satisfy the free to play attitude which is also losing ccp income and also affect the gameplay of many other people who actually provide ccp with rl income instead of freeloading

I'm not against plex - .

The OP is also not against PLEX. It is against those few PLEX speculators, who effectively remove content from the sandbox.

The OP is also not against PLEX. It is against those few PLEX speculators, who effectively remove content from the sandbox.

The OP is also not against PLEX. It is against those few PLEX speculators, who effectively remove content from the sandbox.