SE Please implement a Chonoscroll/PLEX system in FFXIV: ARR

[Rylock]

You can check the current going prices on that mmobucks site, the current going price for isk appears to be ~$9 / 400m, which is less than the lowest price in the graph that covered the last few years, though it seems the price has been flat for a few months.



The big spikes in the market appear to coincide with expansions, chinese new year, and the big spike in 2009 seems to be when someone robbed a bank. Yep. There was a bank. And someone walked away with it. And then the CCP banned a bunch of farmers so people lost all their money and supplies were low.

[axemtitanium]

when someone robbed a bank. Yep. There was a bank. And someone walked away with it. And then the CCP banned a bunch of farmers so people lost all their money and supplies were low.

LOL I remember reading about that a few years ago. Informative link. Hilarious that it made the rounds on "regular" gaming news sites.

The OP has made it clear that he supports the concept of Real Money Trade if managed by the Devs. That is not up for debate, he has shown the support of using Real money as a means for virtual profit.

This chart has however been repeatedly thumped as proof of how it works. I felt that this was missing important data to be able to legitimately tie it to the core point, that it halts real money trade activity.

Based on the article, the plex implementation was not even considered when they made the graph. What does this mean for the relevance of the graph?

And even if it was tied to the graph indirectly, Plex implementation in 2008 means a 75% drop counting 2007 is an irresponsible claim.

I believe Rylock's post answers your other 3 questions sufficiently. I'm not sure what you mean by "Plex implementation in 2008 means a 75% drop counting 2007 is an irresponsible claim". You have to compare values from before and after the implementation of PLEX. 2007 is before and RMT costed $40. 2009 is after and RMT costed $10. There was an average decrease in RMT prices of 50% since the implementation of PLEX in 2008. The maximum decrease was 75%.