Yup. It is a very good idea. One I have proposed as well in the past but people don't seem too interested. To CCP, PLEX is just as good as cold hard cash. One way or another if PLEX is bought, sold or traded in any way at all, CCP still gets the money from it. Why they have not already given the option to purchase hard goods through the CCP Store is beyond me.

Come to think of it...there may be some legal issues involved. Possible tax evasion issues and whatnot. Once you buy the PLEX you are then using face game money for real life goods. At least it could be viewed that way by some courts...

No

I am not against the idea, but it would spike PLEX prices even higher, so I don't know about the economic wisdom of something like this.

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.

After the PLEX price rise we have seen during this last year, I am not very confident that plain supply/demand reasoning works on the PLEX market.

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.

Initially the idea might seem good but there is a flaw. The problem is it creates a legal way for isk to be converted into RL $$. This would encourage even more botters.

I thought the CSM discussed this in the PLEX round at the last summit. Have a poke through the notes; I'm pretty sure it was in there.

Yup. It is a very good idea. One I have proposed as well in the past but people don't seem too interested. To CCP, PLEX is just as good as cold hard cash. One way or another if PLEX is bought, sold or traded in any way at all, CCP still gets the money from it. Why they have not already given the option to purchase hard goods through the CCP Store is beyond me.

Come to think of it...there may be some legal issues involved. Possible tax evasion issues and whatnot. Once you buy the PLEX you are then using face game money for real life goods. At least it could be viewed that way by some courts...

Come to think of it...there may be some legal issues involved. Possible tax evasion issues and whatnot. Once you buy the PLEX you are then using face game money for real life goods. At least it could be viewed that way by some courts...