So what if people sell platinum and gold plans for gil?

[cookiecutter]

You literally went "game was released in 2013, thus cash shop" after you just said "RMT is why cash shop exists", I am sorry you bad brained.

You say you don't care, yet you still post?

Ok let me break it down for you since you have penchant for misunderstanding. First I never said RMT is why the cash shop exists. The cash shop exists so SE can make extra profits. I said that one of reasons they may have made eternal bonding bracelets tradable over being bought directly through gil is because SE gets a cut this way. Maybe their primary intentions were noble and they wanted to make a way for one person to pay for couple depending on their monetary situations. However I find it hard to believe that SE would not have the foresight to believe some people would not try selling this bracelets for gil. The cash shop would exist regardless of eternal bonding or RMT activity. When I mean I don't care about the cash shop, it means that I've seen this trend happen a lot in video games that I've come expect such things and I have gone past being bitter about it. DLC's and cash shop are just the new business model for video game companies to increase profits. Once implemented they pretty much never get removed so its pretty much like crying over spilt milk. At this point I've just come to accept it for it was and I have stopped lamenting about the good old days when you paid for something you get all of it even the optional material. Now its pretty much if I see something I like in the cash shop, I'll buy it. If I don't like it enough then I won't buy it. My original intent of this post was simply stating that at least SE is choosing the lesser of evils and allowing the vanity and mounts to be attainable for everyone despite how much money they could pay for additional content. They could have just locked the mounts and vanity directly behind a paywall by making it untradeable just as easily.

[Parodine]

People could make gil in lots of different ways before. If you wanted to invest time in crafting, selling DF runs, gathering, desynth, etc.

But now, you could potentially just make a ton of in game money using RL money instead. A bit disheartening.

People wanted in game way to buy those weddings with gil through SE, not through other players as a middle-man.

[Valarian]

People could make gil in lots of different ways before. If you wanted to invest time in crafting, selling DF runs, gathering, desynth, etc.

But now, you could potentially just make a ton of in game money using RL money instead. A bit disheartening.

People wanted in game way to buy those weddings with gil through SE, not through other players as a middle-man.

I think, though, that economically this is a good thing. That gil moves from someone who had been hoarding it to someone who's itching to spend it. Once spent, that money will either curb inflation when it is eliminated from the economy (NPCs, Housing), or it will fatten the pockets of another player who's trying to make money to buy something (Market board), and curb inflation (Money eliminated because of market board taxes).

[Krr]

I think, though, that economically this is a good thing. That gil moves from someone who had been hoarding it to someone who's itching to spend it. Once spent, that money will either curb inflation when it is eliminated from the economy (NPCs, Housing), or it will fatten the pockets of another player who's trying to make money to buy something (Market board), and curb inflation (Money eliminated because of market board taxes).

Not necessarily. There's nothing dictating that a player who's ultrawealthy in gil won't simply use it to become even wealthier. And if they're an exceptionally wealthy person IRL, $20 for 5-10 million gil is a drop in the bucket compared to their income prospects and other investments.

In theory, a person who's incredibly rich IRL and gil-wealthy in game could simply sell bracelets and metallic dyed items en masse to other high-gil players, essentially making a grab to consolidate all their market power. That's what a smart Free Market video game tycoon with tons of IRL cash to piss away would do.