Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
TOS change all the time to suit a company's needs. All they need to do is to send you a mail inviting you to aknowledge it again. I think the Xbox Live TOS changed about five times in the last two years.
Holy crap guys, we're speaking a SE executive.

This is me putting it plain. You are nothing to do with SE. Therefore you cannot predict if they will change their ToS in this (or any) matter, much less say they will just because Microsoft did once upon a time. Such is unlikely, very much so. Especially considering SE have had the same stance on real money trading for 10 years.

Having the customer pay money for currency is what F2P MMOs do. (while making ways to accrue money without handing over your credit card details very scarce, but that's neither here nor there.) In case you haven't noticed, XIV isn't going free to play. Just because a few companies have done it does not mean it's a viable way to get rid of RMT. It's a viable way for said companies to make extra money and potentially rip off their playerbase, but that's it.