The Hypercores, however, are consumed and gone forever.
When the raffle expired, 591,671 Hypercores expired with it, never to be seen again.
Since all Hypercores in the game are created by trading in the game's primary premium currency, PLEX,
this makes Hypercores a sort of pseudo-premium currency themselves.
Hypercores can be purchased off the existing in-game
market from other players, but can only be created via exchanging PLEX for them via the New Eden Store in-game.
The value of those lost Hypercores was something around 205 billion ISK,
or around $2,000, making the failed raffle of the Raven State Issue one hell of a gamble.
To list an item,
a seller must provide an amount of“Hypercores,” a new item added to the game alongside the HyperNet Relays,
proportional to the total value of all of the tickets in the raffle.
If a seller overvalues the item they list, or the demand is not as high as they expect and not all
of the tickets available sell, they can lose a considerable amount of premium currency in the process based on what they paid for the Hypercores.