Destroying Server Economies

[Lersayil]

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I disagree, it affects server economies and by extension players because RMT generally inflates prices. Combined with bots driving down gil income for legitimate players. After a while, it becomes very difficult to afford certain items as a non-botter. I have seen this happen in other MMOs.
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While true the key word on this is "generally". We've had bot issues for a while now, but the prices seem to go down and not up. I would guess that either they are not RMT bots, or not enough people buy Gil from them? (the caveat being: for the moment. Sure, if people start buying more Gil from illegitimate sources it would go downhill fast)

Anywho... you know what else inflates prices? Monopolies, cornered markets, MB flippers and a bubble of hyper-wealthy crafters, forming a market of their own, practically excluding the rest of the playersbase. And contrary to the RMT case, we have examples a plenty in-game for this case.