Back when plex were in the 350-500m range I used to sub 4 accounts and usually gave away a plex to some random nooblet every few months. During this time I could reasonably expect an income around 7~ish billion a month give or take based on drops and market flux. Comparing this to today where the ships available for my isk making are worse, the loot sold sells for around 30% or so of its previous prices in years gone by, it can be a challenge to get 2b out of exactly the same items, and take longer getting them.

Nowadays my brother and brother in law no longer play, so I have only my and my alt accounts to sub, forget handouts as it's too expensive to afford. However, upon recieving the 6 days left email for my alt account and looking at the market I decided today's 1.56b overwhelmed the benefits of having even my own alt active. As for the fate of my main account.... stale content is stale content. At time of posting it's less than 20K accounts logged in whereas at this time in summer it should be 30-35k around this time of day.

There are too many factors involved to say one thing drives the plex market one way or the other, but as I have very little RL money, the rising plex prices will eventually make an unobtainable celing where I'll have to walk away for good.

... looking at the market I decided today's 1.56b overwhelmed the benefits of having even my own alt active

... the rising plex prices will eventually make an unobtainable ceiling where I'll have to walk away for good.

It seems like there's even a simpler idea.

If there is a need to keep plex around a certain price... the simplest way to do so is to introduce more plex to the economy.

I'm not sure if that's necessary or not... but if CCP decided they needed to drop the price of plex... then simple give every subscribed account X number of plex. The price will drop. Pretty simple.

If you need to drop it more... give away more plex.

It's not rising 50M a day. The split into mini-PLEX has caused some inflation of the pricing, but it really isn't as bad as you're making out.

When i started playing a PLEX was 250-300M, it is now 1.3B. While it obviously has increased in price, it is in fact easier to afford for a new player now than it was then in my opinion due to increased access to higher paying content these days.

You mention you already bought 500 PLEX, how did you afford them?

EDIT : EvE is famous for it's player driven market. Suggesting CCP intervene and impose a maximum / minimum price rule is unlikely to garner good responses, and rightly so.

I realise 1.3B seems like a massive amount if ISK but you must understand that paying your sub with ISK is not supposed to be easy for newer players, and that your ability to generate ISK will rise a lot over the next year or so to the point where PLEX is not such a huge cost.

If CCP create PLEX, those PLEX will be bought up by the rorqual miners and carrier/supercarrier ratters, and spent (via sub time and injectors) to create more rorqual miners and more carrier ratters.

Well if CCP no cares. i dont know how many time EVE can stay on the 1st plan compare to other game who are raising. i think its slowly going to die

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Remember, month salary in states like Ukraine is about 110-120 euro per month. Do you really think they will pay real money for subscription? Imagine 90 % of all russian speaking players left Eve all together.

People who keep their accounts subbed via PLEX don't pay CCP, and the people who keep the market supplied with PLEX will continue to do so regardless of whether some F2P players unsub or not.

Easy to say that, but there's the rub. The whales presumably like to have someone to play with - and if demand is diminishing because poors are leaving, and yet the price is still staying high, that suggests supply might be decreasing as well. (Of course there are other explanations, primary amongst them that speculators are still buying all the PLEX they can lay their hands on.)

Spare me the usual imprecations; I have always paid cash for my sub and never bought or sold a PLEX for ISK, so I don't have any personal motivation here.

You look like Lucy Liu.

I don't believe Eve has whales, i.e where 10% of the playerbase subsidises the other 90% like in most other F2P games.

I would honestly love to see the statistics of how many people keep their accounts in omega state via PLEX vs subscription.

It's pretty basic economics why PLEX prices have risen and why there is literally nothing CCP can do about it. Should they artificially limit how much a PLEX can be sold for? Everyone would just use contracts.
Should they inject PLEX into the market? If they try to sell for lower than it's currently going for, it'll just be bought up in bulk and relisted for the current prices.

I'm so tired of people assuming a large part of the rising price is due to these mysterious trillionare speculators, I see no proof.

Let's put that into rough figures.
Let's say there are 20k unique subbed accounts accounts, 20% play via PLEX. Of those 20%, half can't afford PLEX now. So roughly 2k players stop playing. Would anyone notice? Would "whales" stop supplying the market?

Until the margins for SP trading become too small, PLEX isn't going to stabilise.