Why no Plex system?

[RichardButte]

Actually they are 160k now on NA. (Multiple reasons, one of the main reasons is it can be turned into battle.net balance now).

When they launched they were worth 10-20k.

Ah yeah, that's right: you can sell them back to Blizzard now.

Still, 160k was nothing to the people who were sitting at gold cap in WoW, and it still didn't adversely affect the economy.

I am TELLING YOU what will happen.

I can tell you things as well.

For example, I can tell you that I'm typing this post from my home in the underwater city of Atlantis, where our advanced technology allows my people to tap in to your surface internet. We do this because, while we Atlanteans may possess the secrets of eternal life, how to cure all diseases, and effortlessly producing unlimited quantities of nourishing food, you surface people still have us beat in video games and adult entertainment.

We can tell each other these and plenty of other things. Doesn't mean either of us is right...

Give me more power at the expense of most of the playerbase, hf.

You won't have "power" over anything.

If the gold barons of WoW, armed with automated 3rd party addons that monitor market fluctuations across literally all servers to build their fortunes based off of the algorithms detected in price changes didn't break WoW's economy, no one in FFXIV is even going to come close...

And WoW's economy, like XIV's, is one where currency is worthless to plenty of players because they have nothing to spend it on.

The only reason I'm against this is because gil is not a necessity, especially if you don't craft or gather. The average Joe player does not really need bags of gold to sustain themselves. The vast majority of battle content means you aren't using gil for anything but teleporting and repairing. Hell, the game even offers you materia on a plate.

But, for as little gil as people supposedly need, RMT barkers are still everywhere, which means that SOMEONE is buying gil from them, otherwise they wouldn't be advertising.