Not really, just buyers and sellers will move to contracts 1st and in case that would be rendered impossible for some reason - to direct trades (with a lot of scamming) or 3rd party sites and tools.
Iād like to see PLEX reach a billion per unit. A free month should be stupid expensive.
Turning an open market into a black market with all the problems that entails.
Someone buy that man a harem of exotic dancers, STAT! Weāre about to lose him. 
You might want to look up the historical examples of when price controls have been used. Theyāve been a dismal failure nearly every time.
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CCP has no practical way to control the PLEX/ISK exchange rate.
To play devils advocate, I believe the āmagicā number is 2 mil/PLEX, totaling 1 bil/month. Speaking only of player numbers, the peak was before and just over 1 bil/month for PLEXing an account. Since then as the PLEX price rises, player numbers have steadily fallen.
Whether or not whales are making up the income difference for CCP is a whole separate debate. I do believe we can all agree that higher in game numbers (PCU?) means a better, healthier game for us all.
i agree as a more then 10 year old player i think they need to cap the plex prices. This is so getting out of hand i know a number of old players who have left the game because of this. ccp needs to wake up you are killing the game set a price for plex period 1.5 to 1.8 bill seems a good price. but as always greed will take the upper hand.
Theyād need to cut the mineral supply and make ratting more dangerous in order to create an alternative gold standard. Right now plex is trending to levels where only the very poor (lack of irl funds VS spare time), and very rich (excessive irl or in game money and shortage of time) can afford it. For normal people that have a balance of both they donāt feel the need to shift one way or the other.
And so life imitates art. Middle class is collapsing and dollar stores are taking over from premium brands. Only the elite lines that service the absolute upper % are maintaining their place
Not sure why anyone (including me) bothers replying to this Balos/Tracos troll, but Iāll add another just because Iām bored.
If CCP came out tomorrow and capped plex at 1B/500 units, not only would almost no one would buy PLEX from CCP, but every single PLEX would be gone within hours, either sold or pulled by the sellers. People wanting a fast infusion of ISK would turn to RMTers instead.
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CCP has no practical way to control the PLEX/ISK exchange rate.
Simply set maximum pricesā¦bottom lineā¦
I donāt care about arguments why this will not work or that because they set absolutisms for something that was never tried before so they have NO clue if they are right or not,they just SELL it as absolutismā¦
Itās like a blind man saying red is blue and actually never having seen colours in his lifeā¦would YOU trust the blind man because OTHER blind man support him?
Well if you do i feel sry for youā¦
Apparently Billy Madison is a real person and is playing this Traco character.
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Well regardless what this āeve is a pvp gameā staters say their intention is just to keep the status quo as it is regardless if this is good for the game or notā¦
All they care about is to keep their cozy neck in the woods as it isā¦
They deny changes like this that were never tried BECAUSE it are changesā¦and this is madnessā¦
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You want to lower prices, for the purpose of increasing demand (more people can afford to plex). That means you also need to increase supply to meet that demand (basic economics here). If supply doesnāt increase, and price canāt increase, then there arenāt enough plex to be bought and the market fails. This happens ALL THE TIME in the real world, the basics of economics donāt change.
So you need a way to increase supply. Thatās the question you need to answer for your idea to be plausible. The only thing youāve suggested is ccp selling plex for isk - at which point you donāt even need the price cap. If ccp is selling unlimited plex at a fixed isk price, thatās the effective cap already. Okay great, thatās an idea that works economically in the game, it increases supply to meet demand at a lower (fixed) price point.
It also likely bankrupts ccp, but at least itās a fully formed idea. But now you can at least try to come up with an alternative way to increase supply or for ccp to make money.
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You know that ccp can spawn the needed supply into the market at will do you?
This market is purely virtuell but some people seem to think its realā¦ 
Yes, so now we have an unlimited amount of plex seeded into the game for around 1B (or lower, think I recall you saying around 500M was where youād like the PLEX price to be).
So youāve probably lowered CCPās income from PLEX and possibly from subs, since farming 1B is pretty easy with the current isk generation. It would be logical to say, that given the ease of farming a PLEX with in-game currency, a smaller amount of people would see an incentive to pay their monthly game time with real currency. So what should CCP do to increase their revenue? I mean, servers and employees cannot be attained using ISK.
Letās throw aside our differences for a second, @Anders_Ivanovās is genuinely attempting to have a discussion with you. Is it possible for you to give us some arguments for your opinion, so there can be an actual friendly discussion?
Just remember this is written in the forum rules.
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Simple question : am I the op? no iām notā¦
So why are you questioning my opinion just because it differs from yours?
Ok, yeah I figuredā¦ I donāt know why I even tried.
What am I even doing with my life?
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