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

[chrillix]

I didn't insult anybody. It was just a humorous response aimed at your behaviour.

Anyhow, your point against ISK still fails to comply to reality. Not a single ISK was created in EVE online with the advent of PLEX.

I'm gonna try to explain PLEX to you, how it would work in FFXIV in a very clear manner:

1-) Bill is a lawyer IRL, and he likes to play FFXIV with his character "Loaded Rich", a Hyur White Mage. He'd like to have more gil to buy a house and materias for his DoH classes, but he's burning the midnight oil at work many more times than he'd like to.

2-) Little Timmy is 16 years old, and he had to quit school for a year to treat a very bad kidney infection. He also likes to play FFXIV and has all classes @ 50, plus a net worth of 60 million gil. Little Timmy has just so much time in his hands, being bedside and all. His family is kinda poor, tho, and they could use those $15 spent on Timmy's subscription to buy medicine. But the game just makes him so happy, it's doing wonders for him not to sink into depression.

Now, PLEX is the answer to BOTH Bill and Timmy. Timmy can now play for FREE, thanks to all the gil he's amassed, and Bill can buy his dreamhouse by the lake with TIMMY'S money. Not money created out of thin air, like a real money fountain (like a levequest or a duty roulette run) would do, but money that ALREADY EXISTED on the system, IN TIMMY'S CHARACTER, which will DISAPPEAR from the world the minute Bill buys his house. Money that would otherwise be kept in Timmy's account.

And, as I said before, a number of times, balancing out fountains and sinks is what's really the secret of a healthy MMO economy.

NOW, did you FINALLY get it?

Now we have Jon. Jon and his friends have been playing ffxiv semi-regularly. They decide to band together and spend their in-game time raising gil so they can buy a house for their FC. After a month of saving, they finally have enough for their house!! Oh wait, what's this? Bill used his real life money to buy up the last plot?!

Yeah, I'll pass on that kind of a situation being brought into this game. People with time to play the game shouldn't be screwed over by people who don't.