Quote Originally Posted by Kiara View Post
Even with a price history, if the RMT Corporations drive out the competition (e.g., having multiple retainers all price dump an item with super low price), individual players can't keep up with that. They will eventually give up and leave that market segment.

And then the RMT Corporation swoops in and jacks up the price.
Once they jack up the price, anyone can come back in and undercut them.

In the end, RMT are going to do whatever they can to make gil. In my view, it's better to ensure that players have a positive gameplay experience since a lot of anti-RMT measures only frustrate legitimate players and don't really have that much of a negative impact on RMT activity at all.