Quote Originally Posted by CocoPuff View Post
This. Why do the token thing at all? Just jump straight to the issue and allow people to buy 10 million gil for $20 (about what it's going for, as a quick Google search indicates). Gil sellers and bots will be gone the next day.
The trouble with this is that this is essentially printing money. Do you know what happens when you dump a whole load of additional money into an economy? The value of money becomes smaller. Quickly. It's called hyperinflation, and there are numerous, tragic real-life examples of why it's a terrible, terrible idea. Things that you used to be able to buy for a thousand gil now cost a million. The token solution folks are proposing in this thread does not work that way, because at no point along the way is money being created in an abnormal fashion. Players earn gil the same way they always have. Players who buy tokens with real life money then sell those tokens for in-game gil - but this does not generate new gil, it simply passes around the gil that already exists. Hyperinflation does not occur.