I am in this boat myself, being a student without a job, mostly focusing on my schoolwork and my sports commitments. The main problem with PLEX is it is needed per account. If you are one of those players who own a number of rorquals, or have a large scale industry or trading operation, the current PLEX prices are likely still manageable.
This will certainly cause a small reduction in the inflation rates of PLEX, but when it gets to the point where the more dedicated players we mentioned earlier have problems paying for PLEX with in-game currency, CCP will be faced with a large problem. When 10 accounts cost close to USD a month to subscribe and players cannot generate enough ISK per month to reduce that real-life cost, the EVE Online player base will fall off a cliff. To be clear, this is a opinion piece.
It is absolutely my point of view. I am not sure if others share the same ideas, but if a majority of players start to recognize this as a problem, then it needs to be addressed before it is too late.
In order to ensure subscriptions are manageable, we need to slow, stop, or even reverse the inflation. To achieve that goal, we need to figure out the source of these problems, then push CCP to act. Sound off in the comments with your thoughts! Let your voice be heard! Submit your own article to Imperium News here! Would you like to join the Imperium News staff? Find out how! I have been playing EVE for about 4 years. I like 1billion isk ticks and PVP.
I report on wormhole stuff. The demand side for PLEX includes subscriptions, skill extractors and vanity items like skins but the supply side tends to be more casual players who use it to fund their in-game activity. Last, but not least. Playing the Omega game free is not an entitlement. CCP is a business and the developers expect to be paid. In my opinion the entertainment value I receive is worth the subscription fee. This last point is where the argument falls off the bus.
PLEX is used for many purposes now compared to even a year or maybe two ago. The issue at stake is player retention and engagement. If you drive too many semi casual players out with lets be honest… is simply human greedy pricing… you risk the concurrent user counts nosediving and you get nobody to play with.
This indeed was the acknowledgement back when CCP had a professor on staff to handle this adequately. To balance the use cases. Not just sit there forever. So the question really is how long till CCP flush all that to market by say… putting an time limiter on it? People spend 50 dollars every few months to buy the next version of their favorite game franchise or the next DLC.
If they wanna play casual like your Jeff, let him stick with Alphas. I am an outlier here, I work retail and I pay for my game with a monthly subscription. No shoes, no pants, nothing. We have a responsibility as a community to save them from themselves otherwise you know what? They WILL leave. I remember when a plex cost m. Other players bougth it at eve store and then sell it at ingame market.
Nowdays still the same but ingame plex unpayable. Whatever i could pay 1 month and make raids but i have not enought time, sadly this game is dead for me, even if i love it. The current surge in recent PLEX price is likely due to market manipulators ie.
Compare it to the real world marktet. You are going to see large swings in the value of commodities from time to time. It is the player base that sets the price of PLEX through the free market economy. Capitalism If there is someone outside of the game that is manipulating the value bots for example , then by all means CCP should shut that down.
If there is some sort of manipulation of the plex market, its just taking advantage of higher demand, nothing more, nothing less, hence doesnt need any intervention fro CCP side. You got F2P now, you see the impacts of Serenity shutdown, you see the impact of injectors.
All the things nobody asked for v0v. Jeff should pay for a subscription then and spend his 5 hours a week doing more of the PVP that he loves instead of grinding to grind more and do a tiny bit of PVP with the time he has left.
You can still fly a 60 mill an hour VNI as an alpha you can fly pretty good version of ships that are cruiser sized or smaller so Jeff would be better off spending 2 hours a week ratting and 3 hours of PVP as an alpha anyway. PLEX should be taken off the market. If you want to buy it with actual money and use some for game time and some for ISK then that should be ok. What about buying ISK? Do you think that is expensive too? Is not expensive, is just not advice to do it.
But if you must, find a trusted third party seller to do it. Hi Batman, you can; but only using trusted sellers like mmoauctions. Stay away from forums, and just do small to medium bits.
Dont get greedy or the game will realize what you are doing. How about players who live in other countries, such as: Colombia, Argentina and Mexico.
Paying for the monthly subscription is not an option, because most players cant afford to pay it with real money. For these player, is a daily struggle having to work hard in game to pay for their Omega.
Some of us are using very linear logic. It is that simple realy. The issue here is the currency conversion.
If you look at games on steam, they almost always adjust prices geographically to at least mitigate this issue. Edit: And CCP is doing it also. They sell in euro, pounds and dollars. But, they forgot the rest of the world. Oh boy…. Fyi i ve done it all… mined, flipped plexes, subbed with money and with plexes and trading and all that shit! Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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