Quote Originally Posted by NyarukoW View Post
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Well I have to admit that he's right. It's not really RMT because the money is going to SE, not any of the players.

Doesn't change the fact that it's unbalanced and only belongs in a F2P game...

I used to play this F2P Korean MMORPG (pretty good and really fun game, left because of exactly these practices which gave you advantage only if you were willing to spend absurd amounts of real money). The economy went crazy. Everything got inflated and is still inflated up to this day. (I log in from time to time to check if anything's gotten better, because the game is so good, just ruined by F2P system and publisher). While in FF14, having 100m gil means you are rich, in that korean game, it's just some spare change. With 100m, you can't afford much. Maybe some "cheap" weapons which won't help you that much. If you wanna be rich, you need at least 1 billion in your pocket. I'm not kidding.

The ONLY reason I was able to afford higher grade weapons once in that game, was because I won an art contest of theirs and one of the prizes was going for 1 billion. That was the only time I was rich. Then the money went on better weapons and armor and got left with 130m. And guess what? Even then, I still didn't have the best gear in the game. For that I would have needed maybe another 5 to 10 billion lol.

I honestly wouldn't want that to happen to 14. :/