It's time to reevaluate the idea of adding a PLEX/Chronoscroll-like system to FFXIV

[chrillix]

So, in a sense, I didn't "earn" my house by playing the game for countless hours. And in your sense of judgement, that should be the only way people can have houses in the game. If I buy a house with PLEX money, that's "cheating".

Okay, so let me start off by reminding you of the current housing situation. Currently, there are not even close to enough plots to support the demand of people who want to buy a house. Now lets suppose your plex system was in place before the massive land grab happened, or is implemented before the next wave of housing wards become available.

People who desperately want housing purchase a ton of tokens with real life money, sell them for gil, and buy up all the housing before people who want to earn gil in-game are able to do so and are able to afford to buy a house. Housing now turns into a situation where people who are essentially buying gil are rewarded, and those who want to earn it through in-game activities are screwed. You really want a system where your ability or inability to spend more real life funds on this game determines your ability to experience in-game "privileges"? That’s not a game I want to play.

Regardless of whether or not you think you should have to “earn” a house, that’s how it is. You need to expend some effort to be able to save the gil to be able to afford one. You want to be able to skip the effort part by being able to pay for it with real life money.

You 1%ers really are very much alike your real-life counterparts. It's always all about retaining your priviledges.

This point seems hilarious, as you are basically just trying to shift the "retaining of privileges" from people who acquire gil in-game through various methods (ACTUALLY PLAYING THE GAME) , to people who have an excess amount of money in real-life and who are willing to spend it on a game while putting forth no in-game effort whatsoever. Since this is a game, I want my effort in-game to dictate my rewards, not what I do outside of it.