Why no Plex system?

[Snow_Princess]

nothing you said here says anything about how purchasing gear for gil is not a timegated thing and therefore timegated progression is not affected bydirect money-gil conversion. I'm not implying people are buying gil with real money and buying gear, I'm saying that people who put in time to farm gil at their own pace are already to unrestricted buy better gear on their own schedule. I might be sounding repetitive but I cannot think of another way to express this.


again: Illegal RMT funds bots, spammers and creates incentive for flooding of our economy from those bots who don't have to sleep or rest. All of those affect me negatively and therefore I am against it.
SE likely is against it because it uses their resources to create money for someone else, which is a bad position for any company and loses them subscribers who don't want to deal with said bots/spammers and distantly since we have games of chance in within the mechanic of this game there could be problems with actual legal gambling regulations if gil can be converted back to money (which Dev driven RMT cannot be).






Just because you do not value your gil, doesn't mean others also don't. I will agree the ILLEGAL HOUSE FLIPPING market will get ridiculous. But those can be reported or , more hopefully, SE has a plan to make housing more available.
I have no doubt people have up to their max characters on the servers, each with both retainers stuffed to the gills with... Gil. That's on them. Once the gil gets redistributed to people who will actually spend it? it may be chaotic for a while but it will be balanced eventually.. or SE will be FORCED to deal with it. I have no problem with either situation.




People can toss around their Gil how they like, I'll still be able to hunt/venture for my mats and sell them at the new "ridiculous" prices and get my piece of the crazyness. A house coming off of a demo timer won't be any more expensive (which is the current SE condoned method of acquiring a house) and anyone trying to flip them for even more money is subject to GM action (or once again.. maybe SE will actually do something if it becomes an epidemic, or MORE of an epidemic for those of you who will scream it already is).

Point... missed.. completely...
You think.. RMT are the only ones that bot? I highly doubt it given how I watch max level bots, bot it up for a year in HW. Ye they did help devalue the materials but the bigger factor in that is the fact crafted gear is in low demand so the mats stay on the MB for too long, then people undercut spam each other. People also semi-bot, it makes them look like they are a real player but still going on auto, half paying attention to it. Maybe that is why they are never caught? cuz of semi auto and never deal with RMT? idk

The main reason RMT are against the ToS is because of property ownership, has nothing to do with what you said. When you sign the ToS you agree SE owns everything, this means you can't be selling their property for your financial gain. The RMT have very little impact in this game, people really want this because they think it fights RMT and it is worth fighting for? please, the econ is not healthy enough for RMT to impact it a whole lot, and there is a few reasons for this.

1. RMT gil costs too much
2. Gil for the most part is worthless
So RMT are shooting their sales because how this game works, and it is basically the reverse of FFXI back when the cap was 75. When RMT had that sale it was obvious they impacted the econ, here you would not see that at all outside housing.

With the tokens however, it becomes a different story, and it would move high amounts of gil for a lot cheaper then the RMT sell for. It ruins their business, I am not in disagreement that it will impact RMT. However the econ is so badly built it would case more problems then solve. Why are you debating with me when we have completely different points?

You > I like to have Plex to fight for RMT
Me> it is a bad idea because FFXIV's econ is bad. I am not even looking at the effect of it has on RMT because that is not effecting the playerbase. Having a plex system NOW with the econ the way it is NOW! would be a 1000 times worse then what the RMT do to it, because people do not buy lots of RMT gil because it costs too much, esp if you compare that to what people sell wedding bands and such for.

I know it would cause problems because my main thing is to craft and I deal and look at trends every day to try make the most money. I do it because I just want to see how much gil I can make cuz I find it fun, I do not care if it is pointless. That is why I hate spending it unless I need to.