What if the market would be closed, trading between players would be impossible?
RMT would be gone.

Of course this causes some problems so to prevent those from being created the following ideas should help:

Replace the market by a NPC that sells all items for a price set by SE (the same amount you would normally have to pay),
This NPC would also buy items at a way better price, the same amount you would normally earn from selling it on the market.

This would remove RMT WITHOUT making any changes to players earning/spending gill.

Please think about the other FF games, you buy stuff from a NPC and sell it to one..was that any less fun?
Just because it's an MMORPG it doesn't mean "everything" should be done together. (playing, chatting together is what an MMORPG should be all about not buying/selling)


feel free to give your opinion!