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>An exact real-life currency figure of the in-game damage is not currently cemented, but unconfirmed estimates put the amount at more than $200,000 Always wond

>An exact real-life currency figure of the in-game damage is not currently cemented, but unconfirmed estimates put the amount at more than $200,000 Always wondered how much virtual money generated during a day and what is estimation for real $$. What percent of that $200k is real money?

fabian2k 13y ago
I don't think CCP publishes any hard data on this, they keep information like the exact number of subscribers and the number of PLEX sold secret. The real money values always thrown around in every article about a big battle in EVE are also rather misleading as most of the ships were not paid for with real money in my estimation. The big alliances have huge incomes from ingame sources from which they finance the big expensive ships like Titans and the ship replacement programs for the smaller ships for their members. You also can't convert the EVE ingame money (ISK) into real money, or at least not in any CCP-sanctioned way.
- Cthulhu_ 13y ago
  IIRC they did publish subscribed player statistics a while ago, I think the number then was around 500.000. Usually there's around 50.000 players online during my playing hours. As for the conversion, whether it comes from real money or not is debatable, but given that PLEX is pretty much the measure for real world vs ISK value, a conversion is easily made - just like for example Bitcoin is often converted to USD in articles.
alcari 13y ago
The game's subscription model is actually implemented in such a way that you can have an item (a "Pilot's License Extension", PLEX) that represents a month of account time. PLEX can then be bought and sold by players in-game, at whatever price they're willing to agree to. There's a fairly active market for them, so a USD -> ISK (ingame currency) conversion ratio can be calculated. Of course, there's no (officially sanctioned) way to convert PLEX back into USD, so such comparisons speak more to CCP's profits than anything else.
- Zolomon 13y ago
  There is, almost at least[1]. You can go to their conventions in Las Vegas by paying with PLEX. "Regular price is $200 but if you have 15 PLEX..." [1] http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2013/ http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2013...

fabian2k 13y ago

I don't think CCP publishes any hard data on this, they keep information like the exact number of subscribers and the number of PLEX sold secret. The real money values always thrown around in every article about a big battle in EVE are also rather misleading as most of the ships were not paid for with real money in my estimation. The big alliances have huge incomes from ingame sources from which they finance the big expensive ships like Titans and the ship replacement programs for the smaller ships for their members. You also can't convert the EVE ingame money (ISK) into real money, or at least not in any CCP-sanctioned way.

Cthulhu_ 13y ago
IIRC they did publish subscribed player statistics a while ago, I think the number then was around 500.000. Usually there's around 50.000 players online during my playing hours. As for the conversion, whether it comes from real money or not is debatable, but given that PLEX is pretty much the measure for real world vs ISK value, a conversion is easily made - just like for example Bitcoin is often converted to USD in articles.

alcari 13y ago

The game's subscription model is actually implemented in such a way that you can have an item (a "Pilot's License Extension", PLEX) that represents a month of account time. PLEX can then be bought and sold by players in-game, at whatever price they're willing to agree to. There's a fairly active market for them, so a USD -> ISK (ingame currency) conversion ratio can be calculated. Of course, there's no (officially sanctioned) way to convert PLEX back into USD, so such comparisons speak more to CCP's profits than anything else.

Zolomon 13y ago
There is, almost at least[1]. You can go to their conventions in Las Vegas by paying with PLEX. "Regular price is $200 but if you have 15 PLEX..." [1] http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2013/ http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/eve-vegas-2013...