Why don't they just sell gil in the mog station?

[Eard]

dear OP,

why play?

[vpc]

Diablo 3
nuff said

[1889]

They could also sell irrelevant tradable items, like pets or mounts. The more options, the better. But don't sell people money printing machines! We have enough with real life central banks scamming us.

[Fensfield]

What I find irritating is this assumption that it's fine for 'vanity' items to be in a game's cash shop. What about those of us who, like me, consider the aesthetic to be another, equally important facet of the game? For people like me it's arguably as damaging to the experience as selling progression aids. And that's setting aside the fact that to set cash shop vanity items apart from what can be gotten in-game and thus give them appeal to those with heavy pockets, the developers tend to make them gaudy, unpleasant, and generally aesthetic-compromising.

If the game were built with F2P structure in mind, it would at least be tolerable (although in that case I suspect the rest of the game would lose its appeal, so far as I'm concerned). But in a subscription-based game? Why should I have to pay additional real money for the things I enjoy while the people prefer to endlessly spam the same instance over and over get their favoured focus as part of the package?

[1889]

What I find irritating is this assumption that it's fine for 'vanity' items to be in a game's cash shop. What about those of us who, like me, consider the aesthetic to be another, equally important facet of the game? For people like me it's arguably as damaging to the experience as selling progression aids. And that's setting aside the fact that to set cash shop vanity items apart from what can be gotten in-game and thus give them appeal to those with heavy pockets, the developers tend to make them gaudy, unpleasant, and generally aesthetic-compromising.

You can also get it ingame if it's tradable...

[LawlSTi]

For those refering to EVE, PLEX that is purchase with cash and traded on the in-game market only causes ISK to trade hands from player to player. As far as I know, the only ISK created andintroduced into the economy is the ISK farmed by carebears and others through mining, mission running, etc. etc... I will agreee tho, that RMT really isnt much of an issue there and that you would be stupid to move plex through space. I do love seeing the killmails for those that attempt to move high end goods like PLEX in shuttles through major hub gates where people are waiting to ship scan you and insta pop your ship =P

[1889]

For those refering to EVE, PLEX that is purchase with cash and traded on the in-game market only causes ISK to trade hands from player to player. As far as I know, the only ISK created andintroduced into the economy is the ISK farmed by carebears and others through mining, mission running, etc. etc...

That's why it would cause no inflation. In practice it would be like buying gils, but by simply getting them from people willing to buy those game cards (like me, I think I would pay 1 million per month).

[cfStatic]

Because it's a subscription based game, and adding a real money store would be laughable. Even crappy F2P MMOs try to offer cosmetic things, rather than things that offer an advantage in actual play.

When is the last time you played a f2p game? This is simply not the case.

Also, many p2p games have a CS now. While I don't agree with it, it doesn't mean it's not the case.

[YeaniNah]

the game will become (P2W)Pay to Win , (L2P)Lazy to Play or (P2BL)Pay to be Lazy

The worst thing that will happen is that if they do that and i know it will do it .. its happen in 1.0 but is just people got and got richer by farming .. money got easy to get by craft

People will buy from mog station and get richer and richer. the richer wont care about those who cant use that cos no money at home and have other thing more important to pay.
So those rich people will increase AH items value so poor people will have hard time to buy them
and new people will go nut when starting unless they buy from mog station

[Mr_Garrison]

If they did this, I could ding 50 and buy all the gear and materia that I needed making end game pointless.

But you can do that at the moment. Fair enough you may be playing Russian Roulette with your account by going to gil sellers but the option is there. There must be plenty people going down this route creating a demand for gil otherwise we wouldn't have all the spammers in pretty much every hub on every server.