Quote Originally Posted by Seig345 View Post
No one's saying the pay wall will stop the RMT problem altogether, but free jump potions would easily make it worse for everyone. I feel like you're blowing it a touch out of proportion there; these jump potions are optional items, and will be categorized as such in the cash shop. They're a far cry from anything actually necessary to play the game such as character creation/entering a city/load screen. Yes, the RMT problem should be fixed, but until an actual solution is found to stop it altogether, there's no point in spreading the RMT problem for everyone else in the mean time.
Optional is a tricky word (which SE adopted after it was used so much to justify the cash shop on the forums). Is it really optional if your only reason to play the game is to enjoy it with your friend that is two expansions ahead? I don't think it is. It's only optional if you don't care for it personally, like all the endgamers that said (and still say) that glamour is optional.

There are multiple accounts on this thread of new players giving up on the game because of the huge amount of fetch quests and uninteresting dialogue they have to deal with before reaching their friends. For them, it would not be optional.

Them again, you could still say yes, it's optional, they can endure through it or not, and I agree. But that would also make everything else optional, including endgame.