Quote Originally Posted by Belhi View Post

That system would require Gil to become purchasable for real money which would be arguably pay to win since the top level crafting gear is BiS at the launch of a raid teir until people upgrade to the actual raid gear. Without screwing over crafters, I am not sure how this could be implemented.
They could do it without offering the gems to gil conversion. This would just make the cashshop one gigantic gil sink where its either gil or Irl money. This of course runs the risk of the devs making more and more expensive cashshop gear in order to make people play longer and farm gil, but tbh, people are already farming their butt off for loads of gil.