[THEORETICAL] Reverse cash shop?

[Sho86]

Don't forget, if RL money gives you access to any in-game currency, it is indeed pay to win.

Then by that note we already hit pay-to-win at a point with 'Enquire Within' painting that is/was a sell-able housing item from vet rewards. You could just make a new alt and plop them up, and I've seen them go anywhere from 2mil to 100k depending on the server.

On the topic of D3 cash-outs, that honestly was fun for a little while when it was new. Getting $25 for a 'Yellow' (roughly our Blue, but range in rolled stats were wider) was nice, but considering they designed the game around it, things got stale fast. I still think it would've been interesting had they made the game just a game with R-AH as a truly side-thing.

I have no experience with payable sub's through gil, although I certainly wouldn't object being a crafter. xD

[Renik]

Then by that note we already hit pay-to-win at a point with 'Enquire Within' painting that is/was a sell-able housing item from vet rewards. You could just make a new alt and plop them up, and I've seen them go anywhere from 2mil to 100k depending on the server.

That's a big mistake, but it's just temporal, everyone will get it for free sooner or later, but just because they made one mistake we can't let them make more, Yoshida said already that the cash shop policy will be "no pay to win," he even said it in English, of all the lies or false lies (misunderstandings), this would be the worse one, and the players should take the responsibility to make that statement true, even if it means making some players pay for a game that since the start have been tagged as a pay to play.