Stop Buying Titan Kills

[FatherKolgrim]

It's funny how they say they try to justify it by saying they are good players that just ran with bad groups, and the majority of the people they sell these runs to have lvl 30 accessiories lvl 40 armor and weapons they made no attempt to better their chara and just paid to win so they can sit around and wait to be carried through coil

[PSxpert2011]

Hehe, I see this discussion going around, around and around once more in a circle of confusion. Dictating how someone should play their game and patronizing them to do play it one way doesn't justify ones integrity of a good player.
If you want to argue why and to who your paying top gil for a primal kill for relic, that's another thing. Still, in legacy servers, the economy is different that those of new player servers. Who's going to have 500K but a dedicated player or maybe a gil-farmer.
One argument can be made that your paying RMT this gil so they can turn it around and sell it on the market. If players pay for this gil just so they can get primal kills, then that's RMT conspiracy(even on new-player servers.
(careful who you deal with, you could get banned)

[Jayded]

For many people it's about a simple concept called opportunity cost. You could pay 200k for a 5 minute time investment titan kill, or you could spend 50 hours wiping to titan with DF/Pugs. How much gil could you farm in those 50 hours, and how much frustration did you save not partaking? More than 200k, and a crapton, I hope. Simple minds.

[Scratchs]

I'd rather main a weathered short sword than give 1 gil to some elitest/cheater/exploiter/rusher/rager/etc who is most likely trading your gil for RL money. Have some damn patience Titan is being nerfed in the next update.

[Mayrissa]

ITT: Sweeping generalisations and hyperbole stated as fact.

[AridElf]

If for example I have plenty of gil floating around what's to stop me paying some mercenaries to help me get through the content? I get my relic, they get more gil, win win.

Time = money, if someone wants to save themselves time by paying gil, let them, it's no concern of yours, even if it is 'silly'.

[Heartstopper]

I've always wondered why people who buy things like boss kills ever bother playing the game in the first place.

[Lilysparkle]

I've always wondered why people who buy things like boss kills ever bother playing the game in the first place.

I am sure if SE were radical enough to present an option where you could pay real money for an instant level 50 character creation, someone somewhere would probably pay for it. And I am sure that same person would also get bored and stop playing because they would have no connection to that character, no sense of accomplishment. Yet, they'd still pay despite this. I don't really get it. When someone presents an option where you can pay to short-cut, they simply seem to fall into this trap of paying. But moments ago, if there never was such an option, they wouldn't have been lamenting it's non-existence. See what I mean? Ppl are like water; they flow into whatever crack, crevasse, shape that is presented to them. Is there any self-control left? ;x The business-minded ppl take advantage of that. It's a massive shame because I think this is why RMT persist with the spamming and hacking of player accounts (to then continue to spam with, too): someone somewhere just keeps buying.

Ppl are essentially paying to "skip" content, but I really have to wonder when the 'point of no return' happens. That is, the revelation that you pay for so much in some way, that you begin to realise you're not really playing the game anymore. Do they even care about that? The concept of the game just gets "broken." Maybe they just move onto the next MMO? I guess I don't understand it. If you're reading this and you buy gil, or you bought a Titan HM victory, just let all that sink in for a second.

[KitCat]

I haven't paid for titan and don't plan to just because I'm stubborn. I have however bashed my head off him for 20+ hours of just fighting, not counting time spent on breaks and looking for parties. The fights not that hard after you've had a bit of practice. I can make it through 29/30 runs without getting touched. I've also busted my ass to get decked in DL so I'm not undergeared. The problem I'm having? Unfortunately my progression depends on 7 other people competent enough to not stand in crap they shouldn't be standing in, and considerate enough to not be standing here with a grand company weapon and trash accessories.

It's insane. He follows a pattern. If you're one of the people that has mysterious "lag spikes" every time you enter titan, then memorize his damned pattern until you can recite it in your sleep, and start moving before he does his attacks. There's a damned good infographic out there with the steps.

[kazaran]

Eventually bans will result when SE's focus shfts. Yjrtr str ldo sltrsfy complaints of FC's that do this not honoring promises when they fail repeatably in the dungeon, or try to blame it on you and not refund you. Be very careful, people exploiting this are not going to be trustworthy.