SE Please Sell Gil

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In Rift you can buy entire raid sets for real money, that's all optional as well. Pay to win, means being able to buy something that makes you better than other players at the same level. Adding gil doesn't really do anything but let you buy some crafted (worse than tomestone/raid/dungeon gear in most cases) and houses (in the rare moments they're available). Pay to win to me, would be if it was like Rift where you could spend money and buy an entire set of raid gear for yourself that other players can only get by clearing the raid or forking over some dosh.

I'm not saying I'm for selling gil mind you, quite the opposite. Gil is so useless most of the time that there's no reason to buy it as far as I'm concerned. However I adamantly disagree with this notion that buying gil (regardless of the source) somehow trivializes the game and makes it pay to win. The notion is nonsensical and doesn't hold under any real scrutiny.

Except many people don't play to do raid, so selling raid gear wouldn't mean anything to them unless they just want the glamour, and even having good gear wouldn't guarantee a clear. A lot of people do play to buy and decorate house, collect glamour, mounts, minions, etc., and many of these items can be bought via gil, which means selling gil would trivialize the game for them. No need to do higher (lower?) floor PoTD if you have the gil to buy a Night Pegasus mount, etc.