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

[Shougun]

I'm afraid I have to let you into the secret that telling you that you have problems understanding something (which you do), is not an insult. As much as you'd like to pass it as such to play victim.

Choice of words is very important in discussion, and the fact that you called it "minor" was evidently purposeful in trying to downplay its effect. And telling.

So telling that you feel the need to run around and insult those on opposing ideas. You are very telling yourself.

According to your logic, since it's impossible to completely remove RMT, Square Enix and other MMORPG developer should stop fighting RMT altogether, since "It doesn't matter".

Yet, you're completely wrong.

RMT firms are companies. No less, no more. They have employees, thrive on profit and, besides the fact that often engage in illegal activities like identity and credential theft and credit card fraud, they work exactly like any other company.

Cutting their profits means that, if they want to continue being profitable (thing that is indispensible to survive), they need lower their expenses. In order to lower their expenses they need to cut their budget in the game in which their profits are being cut. Since their only relevant expense is paying their employees, they need to cut the number of employees working in that particular game.

Less workforce working on FFXIV -> Less gil generated and injected into the market -> Less inflation.

It's an ironclad equation. So yes, it does matter, a lot.

You need to go play in the darkside for a little bit. You somehow think they lay all their cards on the table at once. They stock pile massive amounts of currency and sell it at the highest points possible - if they flood the market their price HAS to drop due to economic law.

Even when they are doing really well they do their best not to devalue their money.

I wouldn't say that a major hit to their pricing wouldn't effect staffing but I know that demand is demand and the introduction of PLEX wouldn't kill currency demand - the currency would still be created but instead of being made by RMT companies it is being made by players to pay for the PLEX pass. As I said before the PLEX turns players into little RMTs.