Quote Originally Posted by Awha View Post
If I recall games like SW:ToR and WoW both allow for cash shop items to be bought and gold off their respected version of Market Board. Also RMT is not going anywhere, so I personally I see little point in inconveniencing players who have more in-game currency to spend instead of real life. I know it is not a popular idea, but I do not think that opening the markets would cause such a max influx on RMT then we already have.
You also have more gil than you can spend, you said so yourself. So of course that wide a change won't affect you, at least not at first. I just gave an example of how it can go downhill incredibly quickly. Almost every F2P game I've been in ends up seeing massive inflation like that in their markets, and that becomes the primary way to make in game gold: buying and selling cash shop gear. It also trivializes crafting jobs/systems more than they tend to already get.

But as for World of Warcraft, they've expanded it so that you can buy battle.net credit (now just Blizzard credit I believe?) with in-game gold to use towards other Blizzard games: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/...lizzard-items/

Now that I could see as something with potential. The trick with WoW is that they're ensuring that the money and in-game gold is directly given back to Blizzard in some way. It's not just letting people making in-game gold with real money purchases, but they're letting gold help pay for real purchases back into its own gaming ecosystem. So players with massive amounts of in-game currency have something they can buy rather than just jack up prices on all other market board items needlessly because they're impatient and they can. Without that second half of the equation, inflation tends to happen.

Thing is though I don't see SE doing that simply because they don't have quite the same system. Unless they were willing to let people purchase credits for their mobile games, but then they would have to get permission from Apple and Google Play. The other idea is to let people pay for an FFXI sub with FFXIV gil, which...might have some merit. But then you have to wonder how many FFXIV fans would be willing to do that.