FFXI DESPERATELY NEEDS BAN HAMMERS!

[Pixela]

RMT isn't bad, as long as it is controlled. Zero tolerance never works.

If a company destroys all RMT, then often their game will die shortly after.

[Alhanelem]

RMT isn't bad, as long as it is controlled. Zero tolerance never works.

If a company destroys all RMT, then often their game will die shortly after.

You imply that anyone has ever succeeded at doing this. That hasn't ever happened. Failiure of the game destroys the RMT market, not the other way around.

[Mnemnopyn]

I'm so excited that I saw all of this before responding to the other Tullemore discussion. @Isola/Pixela, you are reasonable people, by which I mean, you use reason and logic to attempt to convince others. Unfortunately, our friend here has confirmed his moral absolutist stance quite thoroughly with the yelling and whatnot. He's some kind of Utopian and isn't bothering with "reason" so much as "it's wrong, ergo zero tolerance." It's literally impossible to convince him of anything he doesn't already believe wholeheartedly. Ayn Rand wrote that "Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it... Leave them alone." While this could be apocryphal, and I couldn't find a good source for it, I think the advice applies here. SE has to exist in the real world, they're not running a charity, and Pixela's breakdown of the factors in play is absolutely correct. I'm sorry, Tullemore, but you're on the wrong side of reason here, and I don't think we can be friends.

[Sirmarki]

If a company destroys all RMT, then often their game will die shortly after.

I think you may have that the wrong way around!?