SE Please implement a Chonoscroll/PLEX system in FFXIV: ARR

[Abriael]

Hardly such. Everyone is paying for the right to log in with cash only. Everyone playing now has the same opportunities - ignoring illegal activities like buying from RMT.

Eh, unfortunately not so. Example:

I have more money than you. Buy two computers. Got a collector's edition (that included two accounts). Pay the monthly fee for two accounts.
You have less money than me. Only one computer. Standard edition. Pay the monthly for only one account.

I can multibox, levelinking my two characters (which multiplies earnings by two) with one on tow. Use them for spiritbond, and when i'm out having fun i keep one crafting all the time making millions of gil (I know several people that do this, it' VERY easy with the new crafting, as it takes only a click every two seconds).

I have a very sizable advantage over you by spending more money on the game. By your definition, this is pay to win. Ergo FFXIV (and every MMO in which multiboxing is possible) is pay to win.

Yes you can "work hard" to catch up - but if you have two exact people with one difference (one willing and one not) the person willing WILL be ahead. Not an assumption.

A person with more money ALWAYS has ways to get ahead in every MMORPG. What distinguishes pay to win is when the other person has no way to catch up. For instance when the developer sells boosters that increase the attack power of the one that uses them.

That's what distinguishes an advantage from an unfair advantage.