PLEX is very expensive right now thread

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@Salvos_Rhoska

The injection market will also continue to drive PLEX up and I think there is still so much isk out there in some pockets that they just dont care how high costs go.

I think you’ll fine the correlation there is not very good.

@Salvos_Rhoska

SP farms will just get bigger and bigger, and since their value is linked to PLEX, it doesnt really matter how expensive PLEX gets, they will still come out ahead as long as there are people out there buying SP.

SP farms suffer from diseconomies of scale past a certain point. So no.

@Aaron

Its important to cater for a specific customer within business, people who don’t have a debit/credit card are a specific customer. If we analyse the nature of someone not having a payment card it means they are too young, they can’t afford it, or they live in a poorer country where its very hard to get a debit card.

Getting a debit card is actually quite easy. Open a checking account. That’s it.

Now if you live in a country where securing a bank account is problematic…chances are you are part of a minute fraction of the player base. Similarly for those who are struggling to pay a monthly sub. If $14.95 is a large part of your monthly income then perhaps one should sit back and examine one’s priorities?

@Aaron

Keep it simple, game time is an important product within eve and it should be simple and realisticly priced to reflect.

CCP tried that to some extent with Aurum and decided to move in the opposite direction. My guess is they are thinking that this will be better for their bottom line.

In any event, below is a graph as what I believe is happening more than anything else.

So that early price/quantity, (P1,Q1), combination represent our initial starting point. Then there is a shift in demand. This shift could be CCP tying PLEX to something else such as dual training or it could be something that changed in game resulting in increased ISK income. So the demand curve shifts from Demand1 to Demand2, and with it we start moving to the price/quantity combination (P2,Q2). Similarly for Demand3 and (P3,Q3). Now if there are gaps between these shifts in demand we’d also see periods of relative price stability.