Does the community ever have a constructive conversation about RMT?

[Mistyregions]

You're still missing the point. These expensive items get made because players such as myself can make a profit from it. The materials, whilst expensive (and quite rare), provide a solid income to gatherers, folk farming maps and even to people who just run roulettes and sell the goetia mats. Do you think these items would even be made if we couldn't get profit from it? For ourselves, yes. Maybe for friends. Certainly not for randoms at 10% of the profit.

You can still make a solid profit, instead of 100mil it would be 1million , because with reduced inflation 1 million effectively becomes the new 100mil. You wouldn't be poorer, or richer just less zeros and that would in return make your items more accessible to other thus increasing your profits more, but not to the point that taxes eat into your profits.

[MomomiMomi]

You can still make a solid profit, instead of 100mil it would be 1million , because with reduced inflation 1 million effectively becomes the new 100mil. You wouldn't be poorer, or richer just less zeros and that would in return make your items more accessible to other thus increasing your profits more, but not to the point that taxes eat into your profits.

Nope. Doesn't work in a game. Value must be compared to vendor prices. As inflation rises, you can buy more because game-determined prices do not adjust. The biggest example of this we have is housing. A medium house is 20 million gil whether you're making 1 million or 100 million. If you're making 1 million, you're 1/20th of the way to your house. If you're making 100 million, you can buy 5 houses.

In this way, inflation is good for new players, not bad. They can afford more than than they could otherwise.

Also, you can stop trying to apply real world economics. This is an MMO. They function on their own economic systems.


Finally, you directly contradict yourself in the quoted paragraph. I'll let you figure out where yourself.