RMT + Cash Shop = Not as bad as one might believe?

[Nalien]

You could say the same thing about people that farm for poetic gear. People have been able to purchase gil from RMT's for a good while now and it really hasn't hurt the game that much, but the second that SE come up with a way to do the same thing everyone seems up in arms about it. Honestly I would rather support SE than some random RMT website that does who knows what with my money.

1) How do you know RMT hasn't hurt the game? Do you know what the game would be like without RMT? Are you unaware of the mass Gil removal a lot of legitimate players faced due to RMT? Do you know how much they'd have charged for housing if RMT Gil wasn't in circulation?

2) SE didn't come up with this way to do the same. They've even outright told people not to do this. This is a case of SE making a mistake and letting players abuse it, just like the old Black Mage exploit for Garuda in 1.0. I'd expect something similar to the Salvage bans from duplicating gear in XI back in the day, but I really doubt SE will take such a hard stance on this.