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

[Havenchild]

Are you completely unaware of what people in this thread have been asking for that I have to explain it to you? I'm sorry if you're this many pages deep and you don't even understand the kind of trade goods they have been arguing on about for pages then that's on you. I'm not going to be a book report.

This entire thread is RMT and Inflation sans maybe a few people who mentioned subscriptions taking a hit because of this.

I've talked about how this subscription model would affect Inflation.

I've talked about how RMT does not directly equal P2W as most people seem to believe as well as expanded on how RMT is in this game already but SE is NOT getting anything anything for it. I've argued this same point in the promise bracelet debate and will continue to do so. Onto that point I've elaborated on how P2W in this game is a very big misconception.

Nothing I've said is a strawman as it is all related. The only strawman here is you trying to find one, to devalue others opinions.

Go read the dev comment if you want, they never said people would be banned for it. Like I said in the post that you quoted, they specifically stated that if people continue to do it they will look into an alternative solution.

They know it was their mistake, but they also know that not many people are going to buy a $20 bracelet and sell it for 1.2 mil when RMT is selling 10 mil for the same price. There is hardly anybody selling them now that hype has died and they sell incredibly slow, hence the 1.2 million gil price. Nobody gets banned for buying gil from RMT either, that doesn't mean it's ok for you to do it.

You are 100% correct they did say this. What I got from Intaki's post was sarcasm. He's basically saying RMT is being allowed to be a legitimate practice in essence of not being punishable. I've known several Gold Buyers on my small time server alone who have bought several millions in gold to buy runs for the content. They do not get banned. These are known players in the community. I'm very sure this situation is not very different on other servers. Those people who sell runs constantly? They know who the Gold Buyers are and they all see those same people daily most of the time.