An idea to combat RMT...

[Snow_Princess]

There's no inflation in the token model. You buy a subscription token for real money, then sell that token for gil in game tosomeone else. That someone else gets to pay for the game with in game currency, but SE still gets the money from the original purchaser, and the original purchaser gets their gil.

This only works if the game has an infinite free trial/non-premium status though. You can't exchange tokens and activate the account without logging into a free account.

Anyway, there are enough threads of the doomsdayers saying it would destroy the game because they haven't seen how successful it is in other games without being P2W (unless you think WoW is P2W). Better not to beat this dead horse again.

You are right in the idea of it does not make more gil, this is true, but that is not what leads to inflation.

What leads to inflation is the people with stockpiles of gil has a use for it suddenly, and the people with low gil would tend to actually use it. Since it is throwing more gil in circulation, that is what leads to inflation. (inflation is not necessary bad, btw, it is hyper inflation that is bad and the thing you want to avoid)

That alone is not a big issue though, the problem in making that system is throwing it in with a market with an extreme housing shortage. Most of the gil exchanged is housing, housing items, and glams. Because this game does not handle housing well, it would create more problems with housing. It has nothing to do with being a "doomdayer" DO THOSE GAMES HAVE EXTREME HOUSING ISSUES?!?!?!?! no? my point is well founded then. I can penta meld a job in full 320 gear cheaper then what I spent on 2 cherry trees, for example, with the first overmeld being a VI) Some fences costs even more then that, just a fence, and that leaves out spending 1 M+ in picture frames, 400k ish for a mailbox, and other things.

It would cause TOO MUCH of inflation in regards of 3rd party communication trade of second hand housing trading and housing items.

Basically they need to overhaul and fix the housing situation to fit this in the game, otherwise it causes too much problems, the econ of this game is not great. Because of high burn out of gear and replace, the encon is pretty dead after a few months after patch, SE needs a more substantiate model in general, and not a burst one. The reason for this is that they need to keep making new content too quickly from it, they really need some parallel progress concepts in this game. Fix that, and this idea will have room to exist in this game.

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So someone can buy a big mansion, expensive glamours, expensive mounts and be rich ingame, by trading (buy token, sell it for gil) money ----> gil via SE? Isnt this a form of P2W?

No because you can get all the same stuff if you earn the gil in game. P2W would be like if there were a cash shop selling ilvl 350 gear in it even though the best gear in game is 340. But P2W means literally anything you use your credit card for nowadays for some reason. A TON of people now believe FFXIV is P2W because it's sub based. This is NOT what P2W meant back when the acronym started being used.

What leads to inflation is the people with stockpiles of gil has a use for it suddenly, and the people with low gil would tend to actually use it. Since it is throwing more gil in circulation, that is what leads to inflation. (inflation is not necessary bad, btw, it is hyper inflation that is bad and the thing you want to avoid)

That alone is not a big issue though, the problem in making that system is throwing it in with a market with an extreme housing shortage. Most of the gil exchanged is housing, housing items, and glams. Because this game does not handle housing well, it would create more problems with housing. It has nothing to do with being a "doomdayer" DO THOSE GAMES HAVE EXTREME HOUSING ISSUES?!?!?!?! no? my point is well founded then. I can penta meld a job in full 320 gear cheaper then what I spent on 2 cherry trees, for example, with the first overmeld being a VI) Some fences costs even more then that, just a fence, and that leaves out spending 1 M+ in picture frames, 400k ish for a mailbox, and other things.

It would cause TOO MUCH of inflation in regards of 3rd party communication trade of second hand housing trading and housing items.

That's very true. I don't think having more money exchanging hands would be a bad thing but for the fact that we don't have enough housing for the demand (and it seems we never will). That has to be solved first.