What do you guys think of people buying gil?

[zeroumus]

again, if you can't devote $1000 ( likely way less than 10% of your income ) dollars to something you spend likely 1/2 your life in, i don't know what to tell ya.

[MythToken]

RMT doesn't affect me, and it doesn't affect you. Why do you care?

[Lissandra]

On Balmung myself and not getting a ton of spam (anymore, thank god) like some people on other servers say they are. It could be because Balmung is one of the servers that regularly gets closed for new character creation, hence hindering/slowing down the RMT a little.

[Dreamer]

RMT doesn't affect me, and it doesn't affect you. Why do you care?

Having to deal with their spam and the inflation they bring to the in-game economy affects me.

[zeroumus]

Having to deal with their spam and the inflation they bring to the in-game economy affects me.

ya, cuz there is lots of inflation in this "economy"

[Kazumac]

Does the general concept of paying money for in game currency bother me? No it doesn't.

The fact that it is against SE's policies and supports the RMT that degrades my in game experience, I do not support it. If this was a game designed for it, I wouldn't care... But it isn't so no I do not support paying money for gil in FFXIV ARR.

[MythToken]

Having to deal with their spam and the inflation they bring to the in-game economy affects me.

Spam will never go away, how does it actually affect you concerning the economy and inflation?

Are you saying that if there was no RMT, you would have more gil?

Are there things you can't buy because of RMT?

At no point have I ever in this game been like "damn you RMT!!! screwing me again!" It does not affect me or you, you just think it does.

[LineageRazor]

All RMTs and botters are grouped together on the same server, so they can simply spam RMT tells to each other.

As amusing as it is to imagine a gilseller server, it wouldn't work; RMT would pick up on the problem pretty much instantly, and any account moved to that server would be immediately destroyed and replaced. Heck, they'd probably automate the process: 1. Purchase account and build character. 2. Shout spam until banned or moved to Gilserver. 3. Delete account. 4. Repeat.

Are there things you can't buy because of RMT?

Yes, this is exactly what can and HAS happened if gilsellers get out of control. As an oft-cited example comes from FFXI, with the huge Christmas gil sale. I forget whether it was in 2006 or 2008, but RMT stepped up their gil-gathering efforts to make a huge stockpile and then sold a LOT of it cheaply over the holidays, dumping it into the economy. As a result, hyper-inflation set in. Over a period of about a month, prices on highly-desired items jumped to roughly twenty times their old costs. People with tons of gil to spend (the gilbuyers) were willing to pay whatever prices people auctioned the goods for, and that encouraged people to put new items up for higher prices.

Honest players typically had no more than a million or two gil to their name. Top notch gear typically sold for around 800k before the inflation, and now were selling for 16 million. This was the event that made SE finally sit up and start paying serious attention to the actions of RMT. The RMT task force started cracking down, a lot of gil was seized, and eventually the economy started to settle down. SE also started to get into the practice of making more of the top-tier gear be raid-only with no auctioned component, something they made an explicit design decision in FFXIV (much to the crafters' woe).

So, yes. The actions of RMT can lead to situations where there are things you cannot buy that you might otherwise have been able to. While it may not apply as much in FFXIV for the above stated reason, there ARE things that are still desired and purchased on the Marketboards - for example, Materia (especially for crafters and gatherers). Believe me when I say that it's pretty depressing to spend months scrimping and saving up to purchase something, only to see the price of that thing shoot up twenty times - and the gilsellers are happy to inform you that all you have to do to keep up with the times is buy gil yourself!

[Kewitt]

Personally my only problem with people that buy gil, is all the other things that comes with RMTs.

Bots, Spam, Other activates.


Beside that, I like this game the way it currently is. Only 1 thing worth spending gil on and people who want to spend gil on that normally have it because really without trying I'm making 200-300k/week and spending about 50k.

Oh only thing worth spending gil on is Meld for crafting and gathering gear. And do you spend 1m gil for perfect melded set to make gil back when? It's a hard call, unless you spend all your time crafting/gathering.

[Orophin]

It's always been a taboo subject for me, and it's something I can never support because it's not fair to every other player who earn their keep within the normal bounds of the game.