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

[Rose-Wild]

In that case they should just add an option to buy the wedding for Gil ingame from an NPC, that way we have another money sink and the option to buy it ingame.
Because being Wealthy IRL doesn't necessarily mean you have to be IG too.

There's no way they din't know this would happen so they should have given us both options since the start. Atleast that way it would have been a gil sink for real.

[EZ5902]

Hope this gets dealt with asap, because these items are supposed to be special items for 2 people, now these sellers are just making them seem like trashy common items :/

[Lissandra]

Now then, with all that being said. Who wants to start taking bets on how long it will be before we start seeing people selling guest spots to their wedding in PF for the minion?

...This never even crossed my mind. The things people (would) do for in-game currency!

[Ashren]

...This never even crossed my mind. The things people (would) do for in-game currency!

Anything that can be exploited for profit, will be exploited for profit. Whether it's selling the metallic dyes, selling Primal or Coil clears, or selling wedding bands and guest spots.

[TurnBased]

^I don't think there's anything we can do about selling the minions anymore.

The tradeable bracelets can still be fixed.

[Kaiser-Ace]

I'm a bit confused as to the numbers. Why would people pay real money so that they can get in game gil so that they buy something without having to spend real money.

Short answer, because they're lazy.

Long one, Because they are lazy, entitaled, bratty, fools that have either to much money or to little responcibility and have no caution with their own privet and sencitive information. And because of people like tham that treat MMOs like a single player game by modding and hacking the hell out of it, the devs have to waste valuable time and resorces to track down RMTers when they could be spending that time and effort on permanently stabalizing the servers and developing new content.

[RinKaen]

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yeah I can still trade.

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Legalizing RMT is the only way to eradicate illegal RMT.

Plenty of games reached this conclusion before FFXIV, it's nothing new. I don't see the issue, at all.

[SekhmetM]

Because those games aren't subscription-based.

[Nephera]

Because those games aren't subscription-based.

To be fair there's not really a lot of subscription games left to even experiment with this.


edit: and as people have pointed out the few that are left all kind of have some form of this already..