Quote Originally Posted by Kuwagami View Post
Because that is an horrible idea, totally useless & it doesn't make any good in games.

Just look at all the F2P, P2W games. In every single game of this type, you can buy virtual money with real bucks, and guess what ? Pay the most be the best. People quit the games after throwing lots of money and never comes again. A mmo can't live from 400 rotating players. It needs a good playerbase which doesn't quit after 1 month because they can't pay enough to catch the top tier players
Buying gil in this game would never allow an individual to "be the best" by design. So long as raid gear edges out market bought gear, it would never cause issues. The major influx of gil would go towards housing, which is a gil sink so all that gil would disappear almost as quickly as it was generated on the server.