I’ve got news for you. Ever since it creation, PLEX has always increased in price long term. Always. Right now it’s sitting at about 1.5B for 30 days worth. It was at about 500M when I first started to pay attention to it. Jumped to 700M to 900M. People were screaming on the forms when it hit 1B. Guess what. It’ll go to 2B at some point in the not too distant future.
I miss back when I first joined, PLEX was only like 300-400mil. Back then I even remember going, ‘damn that’s expensive! I’ll never be able to earn that much isk!’ … Oh the early days.
Tho, I think overall it’s expected by now that Plex will just keep going up. 
I can definitely see it rising to 2bil as well.
Plex isn’t too expensive, people should just stop being poor.
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Pro gamers around the world hate her, see how she save money playing EVE. 
My story: for money that you have to spend for 500 PLEX i can have internet for a whole month without limits and 10 good beers here in Poland.
If I buy 500 PLEX in the game for ISK and use it for Omega clone, I can use money I did not spend to play the game next month. And If you dont drink beer you can actually save money. Every month I am richer just by playing this game. No RMT involved, at least that is not facilitated by CCP.
All you need to do is move to Poland, eat pierogi and catch a cold in the summer because it was really cold week and someone sneezed at you in Biedronka supermarket.
Fly stronk! 
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It’s all about the time I have available really. Used to have a lot of time, used to plex my account as it was trivial. Now I’m bogged down by work, but the money I earn is comfortable enough that I can just pay my sub and not care about it.
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All of what you just wrote there is why people with money, like me, just pay subscription and buy PLEX from CCP to sell on the market, and make quick, easy bank in-game. It’s not pay to win, it just means I have more ships to lose, but it also means I don’t have to grind isk and can spend more time pew-pewing.
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Don’t know what to do with your ISK? This thread concludes you should invest in PLEX.
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Or they just let subs drop an end up with a ton of Alpha accounts.
with a low Plex you get more skill farmers that plex their account, CCP need more subs and lesser people plex their account or sit on piles of personal plex doing nothing.
Well obviously this is nice for the people who sell PLEX. I’m personally a bit reluctant to give CCP more money since this looks more an more just like a cash grab with more and more monetization while actual game development is in maintenance mode.
And there is also the whole ghost training mess, where they where completely aware of the situation for months and did nothing, since it yielded them some serious amounts of extractor sales. They waited on purpose until the community finally blew up over the whole CONCORD ship mess, with some half-assed response they moved in and told everyone they would punish the people they used in their obvious cash grab.
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for ccp it’s the same thing wehter the plex is high or low. They don’t care.
Also ghost training required some time to be put in effect so ccp did NOT sell more extractors.
Finally you know nothing of the game dev and you are insulting CCP. Quit spreading false facts.
If this were another forum 
You need to follow the thought chain through a bit further.
Those who buy PLEX with in-game ISK are every bit as relevant economically to CCP as those who buy game time for real world cash.
Without them there would be no reason for anyone to buy PLEX with real world cash to sell in-game for ISK so PLEX for cash sales wouldn’t happen.
If any of those three broad player groups you mention can be considered a little bit less relevant to CCP economically it would be the PLEX for cash buyers as it’s really the number of in-game PLEX for ISK buyers who determine the maximum volume of in-game trade rather than PLEX for cash buyers.
And more volume means more cash for CCP.
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More so if anything, because enough PLEX to sub costs more than the same time bought with cash.
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Some people had hundreds of accounts they trained for months with ghost training and then extracted. That is 4 extractors per char per month. Tell me again how they did not sell more extractors.
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i can make 100-300m isk a day and i m not into a carrier. i do exploration relic and data sites in an astero so what you are saying is false. there are more people making money to buy plex in game that are not into a carrier. the problem is that the plex is way to high and people prefer to spend that much money on something else and pay eve with real life money which is what i do.
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I did, and you omitted the last part of the sentence in your citation:
What I wanted to say is, CCP’s goal is to convert as many players as possible to PLEX buyers for real cash or subscribers. Of course that needs buyers of said PLEX, but the system is much more robust against lower numbers of PLEX buyers for ISK than PLEX buyers for cash and subscribers, and would even profit from people formerly buying PLEX for ISK convert to subscribers because of high PLEX prices (assuming they don’t quit instead).
Put it this way, CCP can’t lose when PLEX is being purchased. It’s already $5 more a month to sub with PLEX. And it is absolutely being purchased…but for some reason the price refuses to fall and will only increase.
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OK then full quote this time rather than just the most relevant bit.
The last part of the original citation if anything only strengthens my point.
Which is you have it arse about face, because It’s not PLEX for isk buyers that are irrelevant accept for their impact on PLEX for cash buyers but the other way around
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would even profit from people formerly buying PLEX for ISK convert to subscribers because of high PLEX prices[/quote]
Sorry but you have this completely wrong.
A months game time is £9.99 while 500 PLEX you can exchange for 30 days game time is £16.99.
So for every person that subs with PLEX they bought with ISK CCP makes £7.99 more each month above the price of a cash bought sub which is the other way around from what you’re saying.
CCP make more money from people who pay for their game time with PLEX than those who pay directly with cash.
So if anything they want more people paying for game time with PLEX they bought in-game with ISK.
And another thing, anyone who buys PLEX for real cash only does so to sell it for ISK, it has no other use or purpose for them because if they can pay cash for PLEX then they can certainly pay cash for game time.
So if you did convert everyone there’d be no one to buy PLEX from the
Which means no one would buy PLEX for real cash, makes that sentence a little bit nonsensical, was there a typo of some sort in there?
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uhh… every plex is bought w/ RL money.
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