Quote Originally Posted by Impulse View Post
FFXI's economy around 2006 would like to have a word with you.
This needs to be corrected: FFXIV's economy is nothing like FFXI's. For the most part, RMT can be bypassed completely in this game.

Need Gil? Do Leves for a steady and sure income that Gilsellers cannot monopolize.

Need items? It's easy to buy needed equipment and items for leveling up until about 40 just off NPCs for all jobs. Endgame equipment can be gained by doing instances leveling a craft, or directly contacting a crafter (And note, crafters are far, far more frequent in FFXIV than in FFXI.)

Need Levels? If not doing Leves, all it takes is one Black Mage to power-level a character through. Leveling is easy as is power leveling, so there is no need to pay for such service.

Literally, aside from being an eye sore and being bothersome on the auction (by trying to buy and regulate prices) RMT have no foothold here. World Bosses are ineffectual on the market due to Rare/Ex and the fact that crafted gear with Meteria will more often than not be superior - so long as Yoshi and crew keep to their policies.

They effectively designed this game to neuter RMT efforts. It should be noted that not having an auction was part of this anti-RMT design. But it was a mistake to bereft the players of the convenience.

This said, the Auction House will be the only thing that suffers from RMT intrusion - and that we can bypass by keeping our markets inter-linkshell or inter-company.

That's not to say they don't need to be dealt with. But they won't be nearly as troublesome here as they were in FFXI, where money was scares and the market was easier to corner.