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

[Aylis]

As long as people sell these plans in game, eternal bonding is accessible to all so there really isn't much reason to complain about it.

Cos people can't see the fog above their high horse. the ones that feel cos they went through the lands of the ice and snow with the midnight sun and where the hot springs flow to earn their gil in game...so because they did you have to do the same also...because...heck if I know lol

At the end of the day nobody knows but you and nobody cares either because other players don't know. How do you tell the difference between if the moneys you got in game came from in game or if a player tossed a $20 on cash shop? It really doesn't matter, Player X gets their gil, Player Y sells the item they wanted to sell and gets payed, the company gets a couple dollars more. Everyone is happy all around.

Well maybe not the ice and snow people.

[myahele]

Well atleast people got easy Gil. I expect there to be a patch that prevents this

[Krr]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is hotfixed within the week.

[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.

[BreathlessTao]

...eh. Said it once already, gonna say it again: SE might as well just offer gil for cash in their cash shop and move all the actual items back in the game. :/

[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.

[Airget]

...eh. Said it once already, gonna say it again: SE might as well just offer gil for cash in their cash shop and move all the actual items back in the game. :/

The thing is, Selling Bands for gil doesn't add gil to the market, what you are suggesting is something which would flood the economy with gil and that would destroy the game more than these simple cosmetic cash shop items.

Honestly, unless SE themselves say they didn't intend for it to be used this way I say just wait. Quite honestly they may think that the fact you can only trade 1 mil at a time would discourage people from trading a 10/20 dollar item that they bought with real cash for fear that they may get "ripped off" and quite honestly they would prolly have no case because at the end of the day they clicked "accept" for the trade and you can't really fight that other than be careful next time.

[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).

[Synestr]

On Behemoth folks were PF'd up for 15min on Plat wrists....was like dang, too bad I can't just....craft those.

[scarebearz]

I'm curious, what are people selling these for on your servers?