Quote Originally Posted by Alhanelem View Post
I've never played a paid retail game that let me just buy extra lives etc. The game I played that came closes to that is Bravely Default, but that's about the only time I've ever seen it.

And again, the problem with your argument is this is an MMO, and unlike your unspecified games that let you buy your way through the game, this MMO has rules against this sort of thing and those rules are being broken. Unless and until SE adds its own officially sanctioned pay to win mechanics, anyone buying gil will and should be treated as cheaters. You are tacitly endorsing cheating (that is, explicitly breaking the rules set forth here. You may have rolled over and accepted this but I won't and neither should anyone else.

Again: Using sanctioned ingame mechanics is different from breaking the rules with outside the game mechanics. I don't like those either, but it's not breaking the rules to use a built in feature of the game in a manner approved by the people who made it.
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