Any update on Gil for Crysta? [WOW Gold for Subscription Model in FFXIV]

[MomomiMomi]

Guild Wars 2 did it for a premium currency, not a subscription cost, it would be the equivalent of giving you credit in the Mogstation for gil as all the items are purely cosmetic or just exp and level buffs. FFXIV is designed for people to be subscribed to get content.

Sure it's not the same, but Square Enix rely on the subscription cost for most their money, not a premium currency that people are buying anyway. I don't see it ever being added, as the WoW servers are a lot more populated and gil being added to servers has less impact than the FFXIV ones. Giving people the option to buy or sell gil for sub costs would mess up the stable income Square Enix gets with this game, which is not worth the risk of satisfying a small section of the player-base.

Also the way it currently works they can outright ban anyone that is RMT'ing. If you had gil to sub cost involved in the game it would make that a lot harder on the developer end, I imagine and also a lot more difficult to prove if genuine customers were using third party exploits to help them get free sub costs.

I don't think they will do that anyway. We can already see with the companion app that they crave for money. So this is basically doing less money right? So no worth?
More seriously I don't think they will do it, or i hope not at least. I don't want them to think something like "hey let's make it F2P since our F2P mobile games are making more money that all our MMO additioned".

One of the biggest obstacles of this system, clearly, is getting people to even understand how it works.

1. Gil is not added. It is moved from one player's hands to another.

2. SE still gets their money. This system is a three-way trade. The buyer receives (Crysta), the seller receives Gil, and SE receives the seller's money.


This system actually leads to SE receiving more money, because players who would not normally buy from the cash shop would end up doing so. Players who don't think the subscription is worth their money might shift their opinion.


I absolutely will not buy from the cash shop. Full stop. I will not be paying my money for anything on there.

But if I could buy those in-game items with gil, gil that is in dire need of something to be able to spend it on, I would. I'll take it all. Have all my money, SE! Rather; have someone else's.