Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
I just wish they would just commit to the single use item gimmick and allow for people to buy and sell cash shop items on the MB. The whole friend code method of getting these items with gil can get tedious, and risky. I have rarely spend real money on a item normally I just buy them through an FC mate since I do not have much to spend Gil on. Not much of a raider, nor am I into housing.
Do you want more gold bots? Because that's how you'll get them.

Mabinogi immediately comes to mind on this one. The dye market for gear is kind of notorious on there. Back when the game first came out dyes could be purchased on the cash shop and then sold in game to other players (in fact, most everything in that game can be done that way). When the game first came overseas the average price of a single dye was roughly 5-7k gold. Nothing big and money any player could get.

Now? You're looking at 1 million gold per dye, and that's for the unpopular colors. I've seen dyes sell for as high as 10 million.

And since dyes weren't the only cash shop item you could sell to players, it wasn't the only item that had that treatment. Now you can't buy anything off of other players unless you yourself drop money in the cash shop to earn the kind of gold you need. Which...at that point you might as well just buy what you want. Which then that causes a massive stall in the game's market: items won't move. That or...guess where the gold bots come in? Selling cash shop goods to other players for in game currency is the bread and butter for RMT and F2P games in general.

The only cash shop trade able thing I've seen work is letting people buy subscription time with in-game currency. That's it. Because companies will actively watch how that's being sold (since that can directly cause a potential loss for them).