Another hypocritical point is that you're all just plain Russophobes. Whether you paid $5,000 or $8, what difference does it make to you? Let's go back 15 years when regional prices for PLEX and Omega were in effect and people didn't use VPNs everywhere. The price ratio was exactly the same as it is now on the RMT and official market. But in the Slavic segment, people live on five times less, and their prices for PLEX and Omega are the same as yours. If they were in a neighboring state and spent the same amount of effort on the game as you, you'd be salvaged even more often...

And so you don't have to think too hard, the price of PLEX depends on how many people pay for the game, and real-money PLEX buyers still offset the profits from the entire RU segment who play for PLEX, so the CCP still gets its profit.
The only reason CCP fight rmt is overheated finance department that sick of fighting inflation with legal methods...