Naoki Yoshida's Comment in Regard to Jump Potions/Boost Potions

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I insist, it will not. Having to pay for the game + a sub fee has not stopped RMT.

I've yet to see any RMT bots spamming their nonsense in Ishgard's marketboard and aetheryte areas. This is primarily due to having to delete their characters after a short amount of time and create a new one, and new characters have to go through the entirety of ARR's MSQ to set foot in Ishgard. Yes, RMT is clearly willing to pay $ for the sub, but that's a one time fee for a large number of character creations/deletions for the month. Imagine the $ they would lose if they actually coughed up $25 every single time they create a character just so they can spam in Ishgard too.

As long as the potions are paid, not free, I could see RMT paying it every once in awhile, but if every new character got one free, you'd start seeing the RMT bots running up to the Jeweled Crozier and popping under the terrain and turning on the spam nonsense in /say by the market board non-stop all day just like we already see in ARR's areas.

Edit: Maybe a compromise would be 1 free one per new full account? They'd still be paying per potion if they wanted to do that, but it would mean lost revenue for SE, so the incentive may not be there from a business perspective. I suppose that also throws out their original intent for the potion being only for new players wanting to catch up to their friends, so I doubt that's gonna happen at all.