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Scrapyard Bob
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Posted - 2012.03.23 10:57:00 -
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Acac Sunflyier wrote:Honestly, when they hinted very quietly about regulating, I was thinking they were going to hardcap the plex price to be xxx million isk and you can't go higher.
The least damaging option for CCP would be to simply offer more multi-PLEX packs for cheaper then the normal 35USD/2 (17.50USD) price. If they're serious about it, they should drive the per-PLEX price in those larger packs down below 15USD each. Increase supply will lead to lower prices and provides competition even in the face of market manipulation.
He also said that the PLEX market has not yet reached equilibrium and that there is no specific price target. |
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Posted - 2012.03.23 18:38:00 -
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Adunh Slavy wrote:
I would caution expecting much price rise. The moral suasion, as Claire hinted will have an impact and 10,000 PLEX to cap the market at whatever level they decide is good, isn't something to be ignored. There's only one place that asset can go, on the market.
10k sounds like a lot - but how many people bought the HD stream? The number I heard (while not paying strict attention) was about 5000 people ponied up a PLEX to watch the stream?
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Posted - 2012.03.24 04:26:00 -
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Tebb1288 wrote:
5000 PLEX or so may have been spent on the HD package, but there were quite a few innovated people who were purchasing the stream, selling the ship and shirt, and using the profit off of that to purchase another stream, sell, repeat.
Which is a heck of a lot of PLEX leaving the game forever in a short period of time.
Demand > Supply = Prices Rise in EVE
The 10k PLEX held by CCP now (consider it "seized assets") would allow them to remove about 4-5 trillion ISK from the economy as an ISK sink. Which may not be a bad goal. |
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Posted - 2012.03.24 05:30:00 -
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mechtech wrote:
You're right about the first part (these PLEXes will never see the market, so PLEX supply should seem lower for a while), but there is no isk sink involved with this.
This would be one of the rare cases where the transfer of a PLEX to another player is an ISK sink - because the ISK used in the transaction is flowing into CCP's hands. Once it lands in CCP's wallet, I don't see them going out and buying other things with the ISK, so the ISK does leave the economy forever.
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Posted - 2012.03.25 14:37:00 -
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Soldarius wrote:
Theoretically, if CCP were to despawn those PLEX, it could trigger some nasty legal repercussions. (Maybe/maybe not, I'm not a lawyer.)
Since they would count as "siezed" assets (because they were assets in a banned account, which means CCP can do what they will with the contents of that account due to breaking the EULA) - CCP could probably do anything they wanted with those items.
And if they're legally not allowed to destroy them, they could simply "virtually" destroy them by leaving them rot in the banned account. |
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