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Sunday, August 25, 2013

CCP's War On Bots: An Update to Friday's Post

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.