FFXIV - A Step to P2W (My 2.45 Feedback)

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You've got it backwards. Selling in-game currency for real-world money is RMT. Selling real-world money for in-game currency is not necessarily the same. Let me put it this way; RMT aims to gain real-world money. The other is spending real-world money to gain in-game currency.

RMT is real money trading. It requires two parties, one giving up the money and one gaining the money. It doesn't matter which side of the equation you're on, you're still engaging in RMT if you buy/sell in-game items with real world money. Obviously, opinions on this differ but the definition that was quoted from SE is pretty cut and dry.

On a side note, it's kind of funny that by SE's definition of RMT we're engaging in such behaviour when we buy from the cash shop.

Lastly, kudos to the OP, if anything for at least gathering some of the threads made on the subject into one thread. It probably won't get people to stop making new threads about it, but oh well.