The Devs have no idea what they are doing with FFXIV’s crafting and economics..

[Nandrolone]

I disagree with this idea. High priced desirable items on the market board causes RMT.

Why? Because I'd argue the vast majority of people who do buy from RMT don't actively, and most likely will never, craft/gather and possibly don't even sell most of their items on the market board to begin with. All of their income comes from activities that give gil that doesn't include the market board, like running dungeons. Since prices have fallen on almost all of the market board items but the amount of gil made from non crafting/gathering activities hasn't gone down they are more likely to already have the gil they need to buy the item they wanted without wanting to buy from a RMT.

Literally everything causes RMT. There’s no possible way to prevent it. It’s going to happen no matter what.