On Friday I posted an update about CCP's recent efforts against the websites selling ISK. We don't know the details and basically can just watch the indicators of CCP activity in the area. The easiest one to watch is the price charged by the RMT websites and the activity continues. In the past 72 hours since I gathered the information for Friday's post another 3 websites among those I monitor have increased prices. That means that since last Sunday 9 of the 12 ISK sellers and 10 out of the 14 websites on my watch list have raised prices.
How much have prices increased? The average of the hikes was 17.9%. The median price of the 12 sellers rose 15.4%, from $23.07/billion ISK last Sunday to $26.63/billion ISK today. For comparison, the average price of a PLEX purchased from CCP and converted to ISK in Jita today was $32.34/billion ISK, a rise of 0.3% over the last two weeks.
PLEX is purchased from other players not CCP. CCP only adds additional plex (which they have taken from RMTers) to the market when the price gets too high. This has only happened once that the players know of.
ReplyDeleteYou do know that plex is initially bought from CCP, with real money, before being sold to other players, right?
DeleteWhen you mentioned the average price of a PLEX purchased in Jita was $32.34, are you sure you don't mean a billion isk? In previous blogs, you have compared prices in Jita vs. prices at RMT websites in $ per billion isk. Just wondering if I'm reading today's post correctly.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the botting news. It's always interesting to see how quickly the RMT sites respond. I don't think I have ever read one of your blog posts indicating such a large number of websites increasing their prices at once. Hmmm. Makes you wonder what new tricks CCP has unleashed. I only hope the bans extend to the market and spam bots in Jita.
@Macker - You're right, it was supposed to be per billion ISK. Thanks for the catch and I've updated the post.
DeleteAnd you're right, I've never seen this level of success either. The only thing that probably comes close or exceeded this is Unholy Rage, and that happened before I started playing.