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

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Ah, but you forget that not every Gil seller is an actual business. There are individuals who also sell gil (a friend of a friend on FFXI used to do this to see his Canadian gf) and this is right up their alley.

The RMT gil businesses will thrive because people will need the larger amount of gil to afford the bands and the individual sellers will have another avenue to make gil.

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.

Yes, this is RMT. Any time an exchange of goods happen with the use of real money to get gil, it's RMT. Normally it's backwards where people get gil for their real money but in this context, the real money gives gil in the hands of someone else. Also, look at intention. I highly doubt any of these people mass buying bracelets are doing it so the people who don't support the cash shop will still get a chance at marriage. They are doing so for an in-game profit. This is RMT with a different face.