Yup, I can see why people would be afraid of that. Thing is ofcourse that with plex prices going up the supply would (slowly) also increase creating a new equilibrium. I'm not a fan of CCP being money grabbers but being ale to pay the store in plex would be a sound choice.

There is always a lag between the rise in price and the fall in demand. Think of 11th century England. A large summer storm wipes out the summer crops in August, farmers who had mastered two crop rotation managed to harvest the first but the second was lost, farmers who only did one cycle per season lost the whole schbang. With corn supply massively reduced, flour prices start to rise, as flour prices rise bread prices rise. There is small grumbling, then there is riots and starvation, as the starvation strikes deep into the peasantry and the long cold winter bites, the demand begins to drop. By the next summer equilibrium has been reached.

When the current rescission bites in deeper more people will turn to plex to keep their accounts going. As it bites deeper and they lose the ability to pay their utilities equilibrium will be reached.

Fake edit: Don't take this post seriously.