Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
Did you miss the laugh after he said that? It was a joke. Like, "IF they ever go free, lol."
PLEX-type of system isn't the same as "going free" either. It turns the game into a "real" job if anything. If you want to play the game, you need to spend X hours to earn Y gold to give it to the protection racket, or you lose your ability to play the game. We wouldn't want this to happen now would we? One needs to evaluate if it's better to pay 15$/mo with a "real job" that pays real money instead, PLEX costs 15$, but it costs 2 million gold, and the RMT's are selling it below cost, then you may have to spend an entire week to make that much gold. One needs to get their priorities in order.

"Freemium" games start out free and remain free, and the "PLEX" or whatever premium currency is in the system winds up being a way for players to feed gachapon/gambling addicts. Sure, I'll buy 100$ worth of PLEX stuff and sell it to the biggest gachapon hoarder in the game easily, but what happens is I end up with rapidly depreciating asset either way, I'd be better off holding on to my real cash. Maybe the gachapon hoarder will get that rare item they can then turn around and sell for more than the amount they paid in gold to buy the premium currency. If the plex system only works to buy game time, it's not quite as destructive to the game environment as straight illegal RMT is. But it creates fraud risk.