Real Money to Get In-Game Currency: Eternal Bond Edition

[Verlyn]

It's posts like this that seriously make me shake my head. What kind of development process are you guys using over there where not ONE person says "Hey, the way we're implementing this could create some serious issues." Perhaps someone did, and was ignored for whatever ridiculous reason. You cannot seriously believe that asking players politely not to do something will have the desired effect.

What serious issues are being created? I'd like to hear this.

You people need to chill out. No gil is being generated here. All of it is simply changing hands. Supply -> Demand. Someone has something other people want to buy with gil, so they buy it. No "RMT" is happening here and it sounds like associating the term with this is causing the devs to misunderstand exactly what is happening.

If anything, you know what this really means? Something in the cash shop is attainable in-game for enough gil. How is that a bad thing? I thought you people wanted that.

I interpreted the dev response as "Well, we didn't expect people to start selling it. That's interesting. We need to look into whether this is good or bad before we act. If it IS bad, please stop propogating the problem until our fix."

[chrillix]

What serious issues are being created? I'd like to hear this.

Well it's at least some kind of issue if SE felt the need to make a dev post about it, asking people not to take part in selling the bracelets for gil. MY issue, as a crafter, is that instead of having to put in-game time towards making gil anybody can now drop a hundred dollars on bracelets and sell them for gil with no in-game effort required.

Also, gil changing hands for real money is a serious issue, and at this point Bracelets basically equal real money.

[Verlyn]

Well it's at least some kind of issue if SE felt the need to make a dev post about it, asking people not to take part in selling the bracelets for gil. MY issue, as a crafter, is that instead of having to put in-game time towards making gil anybody can now drop a hundred dollars on bracelets and sell them for gil with no in-game effort required.

SE is responding because a large amount of people are talking about it. They haven't even admitted whether or not it's a problem yet. They're just being cautious right now, because a decision has yet to be made.