CCP's War On Bots: The Burn Continues

Last week I posted about the beginnings of an anti-RMT campaign in EVE Online that began on 30 July.  But perhaps I shouldn't call the effort a new campaign as much as a shift in methods.

@noizygamer @TG_3 It will be interesting to see how long it takes for them to figure it out. So far they're completely off.
— CCP Stillman (@CCP_Stillman) August 13, 2013

Now CCP Peligro has started tweeting a bit himself.  On Wednesday he sent out these two tweets...

Don't do business with the enemy. #tweetfleet pic.twitter.com/wOQe1GvP02
— CCP Peligro (@CCP_Peligro) August 21, 2013

...Or your wallet might look like this! #tweetfleet pic.twitter.com/K5him0X3TH
— CCP Peligro (@CCP_Peligro) August 21, 2013

That led me to begin looking at the prices on the RMT sites again.  Wow!  In the past 48 hours the median price charged by the 12 ISK sellers on my watch list rose from $23.07/billion ISK to $25.50/billion ISK.  That number would be higher if I counted AvatarBank, Koala Credits and In Game Delivery as three separate websites.  But I count them as one as they are controlled by the same company.  If I look at the 14 web sites, 7 have raised prices since Sunday.  Of those 7, six raised prices after CCP Peligro's tweets.

What about my canaries in the coal mine: AvatarBank, Koala Credits and In Game Delivery?  Here are the changes I've recorded from Sunday to yesterday.  I'm stating Sunday since I didn't write down the prices on Wednesday...

• Avatar Bank: $29.07/billion --> $34.29/billion
• In Game Delivery: $24/billion --> $30/billion
• Koala Credits: $24.48/billion --> $34.29/billion

I haven't updated my spreadsheet with the price when converting PLEX bought from CCP to ISK in Jita, but on 11 August the rate was $32.23/billion ISK.

Other factors are probably contributing to the rising prices.  The Odyssey changes to ice mining and null sec ratting are probably impacting the RMTers efforts to refill their wallets with ISK.  The political changes in null sec are probably playing a factor as well.  After all, the Goons just announced their plans to rent space.  That indecision probably affected supply as well.

I don't know how many more targets are out there, or whether CCP found something that makes targeting botters and RMT operations easier.  But I can say I'm enjoying the effects of Team Security's efforts.