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It's more like a stock market. Everything actually has to be produced and moved around in the virtual world of the game, giving a hard limit to how many X exist, and you can sell these things for real money outside of the game. So destroying a competing corps goods is a good way of increasing the value of your own.
I was under the impression that you could only put real money into the game, not get it out.
You can spend real money to buy pilot license extensions (PLEX), which can be redeemed by the holder for subscription time. You don't have to redeem it right away, and PLEX can be sold to other players. So there is a USD to ISK exchange rate based on the market value of PLEX, but you can't turn PLEX back into dollars.
You do transactions for real money outside of the game and isn't sanctioned by the dev. The same way people make real cash, not Steam Wallet funds, via the Steam Market.
Ah, well the figures in the article aren't based on any grey market stuff, so you'd have to look somewhere else to find out what the ISK-to-USD conversion looks like.
It still mostly flows from the cost of PLEX, but would be lower. It's the market's gold essentially, and the most common item to sell for real world money by undercutting what the dev sells it for.
Like any MMO, join a AOL messenger chat and do the real trading there. How do you think gold sellers work?