Please let us buy gil since it's not pay to win.

[Paladinleeds]

Hey and that’s absolutely fine. I agree with everything you’ve said. Sure it would likely impact niche markets, but overall nothing really would change I suppose.

I aren't sure we can base this on the niche markets alone though. Would have to look at the grand scale of what would happen.

I used to play a game where all players were technically able to get everything. Cash shop items could be acquired from events (or by buying from cash players).
However to do so the free way could takes months-years for an upgrade, whereas the cash players would be able to do it as soon as their wallets allowed (within hours).

Unfortunately, in a way that's already made possible, just in a way that breaks ToS. Gil selling sites. The fact they keep coming back despite how many times Square Enix bans them, shows there's obviously enough of a market here. As much as it would suck and enable P4A (pay for advantage), adding this might be what needs to happen to really kick them to the curb. Anyone got data on what happened to these gold sellers after RuneScape and WoW implemented these things? Did they go down drastically? That could also help shape responses here.