Question: Should gil be removed from the game?

[Taebok]

Should gil be removed from the game? Or made non-transferable?
It seems to me it would solve most of the bot and RMT issues.

RMT'ers don't sell tomes or other in game currency because they can't.
Would also stop house flippers and run sellers.

Any way, just thinking out loud.
/discuss

[DumdogsWorld]

It would also hinder legitimate uses of gil. I have a heavy tendency to use melded, HQ crafted gear as placeholders until I can get tomestone gear, relics, etc. Other examples include buying/selling glamour gear, glamour prisms, materials for glamour item crafting, materia, main attribute potions and infusions, crafted food, crafted crafting/gathering gear (which is sometimes better than the scrip versions due to low default stats and the ability to overmeld), housing items, crafted/tradable mounts (Zu and Flying Chair), and minions. You would hurt the ability to deal in any of these things by removing gil.

They might be able to get away with making gil untradable via direct trades and unable to be mailed, so that the market board is the only way to transfer gil. But removing gil outright? Not a chance.

[yukiiyuki]

Idea of removing currency from MMO, now I seen everything

[KageTokage]

I think they should just forbid new accounts from transferring gil via mail/trades if they want to hinder RMT because their accounts are never made to last.

Even just a one week restriction on such would make things rather difficult for them.

[Tyssyn]

It would also only stop one form of RMT, the selling of Savage clears, EX trial clears, Ultimates and their drops for real money is also RMT.

[Johaandr]

It wont stop run sellers thats for sure. And House flippers will stay due to the design-"flop".
As for RMT i have no clue honestly. They will always find a "way" i mean they could mass spam dungeons for tomes and sell the materials.

[Penthea]

As long as people can trade things of value, there will be bots and gil/item sellers. Removing gil wouldn't be enough. You would have to outright remove the ability to trade.

Also bots will remain anyway because some people use them to gain xp, not items or gil.

[Gula]

Idea of removing currency from MMO, now I seen everything

Aion did just that. Player trading too. All currency was changed entirely.

[Awha]

I do think people are starting to up sell the RMT problem in this game. Granted I saw the reddit threads where zones were locked out due to bots, but that seems to be the few and far.

[Dirwen]

A month ago I saw hordes of bots flying everywhere but now not so much. I don't know if bans are happening or they got their bot programs fixed to not appear in pubic anymore.

Anyway the fight against RMT is a long standing one and will never see an end. Even if you lock everything behind tome like currency people will pay RMT to play their characters to grind for them. Don't underestimate the lazy people with a lot of cash to burn.