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

[Ceodore]

"Dear Giant Corporation, please stop making money. I'd really appreciate it. Thanks."

Good luck with that appeal of yours. I'm sure they'll take it into serious consideration.

I am not asking them to stop making money. If you took it that way, you are drastically mistaken and obviously didn't read what I typed closely enough. I advised that introducing a system that converts real world money into in game money, whether it's directly or indirectly, they are going to have drastic effects to their in game economy. Doing something such as that would actually lead to them losing money since a game with a terrible in game economy will fail to bring in new players and result in a system that is being fed by mostly veteran players who will whittle away one by one until the game dies. They are more than welcome to introduce systems that allow players to buy extra perks for themselves... and I stress for themselves. The moment you start having players trade these services, you introduce the trade of real world money for the trade of in game money and your economy crashes. So by quoting what I said and then making your comment, you have demonstrated your lack of ability to read and understand English. Cash shop to in game transactions, since you obviously don't understand what that means, is the trade of cash shop items for in game currency, also known as indirect cash to in game currency transfer.

I don't type this stuff up for the hell of it out of some small minded attempt to appeal to the game developers. It's out of a legitimate, and actually educated sense of understanding economic principles as well as how money flows through a system with all its complex variables. You want to look at SE's bottom dollar for the quarterly mark, then you demonstrate your short sightedness to look beyond that to view the company's future well being. This game is not a necessity, and it can die at the drop of a hat due to real problems that affect every player, and the health of the in game economy is one of the biggest issues to take into consideration, since once you plummet this kind of system into chaos, returning it to order is almost impossible. If you think otherwise, then you are very mistaken.