Latest comment from Yoshida regarding Housing + Inventory space issue

[odintius]

I'm starting to wonder why they put everything behind a gil currency when they are so worried about RMT's maybe they should have a different currency which we have already grand company seals which you have to earn and cannot be trade like gil can. Cut off the supply and the demand to use RMT will go away making easier for them to implement content and not worry as much for RMT activities unless SE are the RMT's and its an unoffical cash shop for them lol.

[Souljacker]

I'm starting to wonder why they put everything behind a gil currency when they are so worried about RMT's

It goes back to Crafting. Everything in this game is built around Crafting. Take out the currency and things to use it on, and watch the forums ASPLODE as the crafters come out en masse to torch all of us lowly, PvE players.

[odintius]

It goes back to Crafting. Everything in this game is built around Crafting. Take out the currency and things to use it on, and watch the forums ASPLODE as the crafters come out en masse to torch all of us lowly, PvE players.

Not saying everthing go to grand company seals, gil would still have it uses but putting everthing behind just gil currency to me is what creating this mess with RMT's and SE over fear of them preventing them to add cool stuff instead of the lack luster we currently have. I don't mind the prices more so over the implentation of the housing system in general but just questioning the reason placing everything thing with gil instead of using a alternate approach.

[Nalien]

Would I be correct in suggesting that it's easier for the task force to identify Gil buyers the more Gil they're buying? Because if it's easier to identify someone who just purchased 20,000,000 Gil and than it is to identify someone who just purchased 200,000 Gil, I'd say the high prices still act as a fairly good deterrent. At the very least, it's an easier way for them to remove RMT Gil from circulation; If someone buys 2,000,000 Gil and buys lots of items off the Market Board, that Gil has mixed with plenty of other players and they can't really remove it easily (the last time they did, there was a massive uproar). If someone buys 2,000,000 Gil and buys a plot of land, that Gil is gone and when they're banned that plot is free again.

[Alukah]

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The whole RMT thing seems like it's just a fairy tale, they don't even ban gil buyers, all those RMT bans they post in the main page are just spambots and nothing else.

[sidestory]There's this special individual in my server, known by many master crafters as he is a frequent buyer of extremely expensive furniture, he is also known for spending 80m gil on 10 Thavnairian Onions when they first landed on the market, he also bought a large house for his FC and paid 87.4m for a personal mansion as soon as the servers went up, rich person some may think? He has zero presence in the market and has no idea about how to make money (people have talked to him before). Not going to accuse him of gil buying, but if anything here is clear is that there's something fishy going on. One would assume SE has people hired checking the markets and checking housing sales in case people use RMT to buy houses, but I'm not so sure anymore. [/sidestory]

I've also heard old tales of people who got away with gil buying when housing was first released.

[Shougun]

Would I be correct in suggesting that it's easier for the task force to identify Gil buyers the more Gil they're buying? Because if it's easier to identify someone who just purchased 20,000,000 Gil and than it is to identify someone who just purchased 200,000 Gil, I'd say the high prices still act as a fairly good deterrent. At the very least, it's an easier way for them to remove RMT Gil from circulation; If someone buys 2,000,000 Gil and buys lots of items off the Market Board, that Gil has mixed with plenty of other players and they can't really remove it easily (the last time they did, there was a massive uproar). If someone buys 2,000,000 Gil and buys a plot of land, that Gil is gone and when they're banned that plot is free again.

Going to deter RMT by encouraging RMT, and then also banning players? Some players will buy gil to buy gil but a few people I talked to were going to do it for the first time because of housing, never did they care before (not sure if they did buy some or not, I think all the small houses being bought in seconds did the deterring for them lol - yay for legacy servers). Or they could set the entry price to something most fresh people finishing the story line could afford reasonably (and make it friggin instanced lol).

Although everything comes back to availability, gil is an issue for some people but it isnt the issue at the heart of all things.

[Fendred]

Going to deter RMT by encouraging RMT, and then also banning players? Some players will buy gil to buy gil but a few people I talked to where going to do it for the first time because of housing, never did the care before. Or they could set the entry price to something most fresh people finishing the story line could afford reasonably (and make it friggin instanced lol).

Although pretty much everyone comes back to availability, gil is an issue for some people but it isnt the issue at the heart of all things.

This is turning into the MMORPG equivalent of the US War on Drugs, lol.

[kidvideo]

This is turning into the MMORPG equivalent of the US War on Drugs, lol.

Medical RMT or riot! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

[NyneAlexander]

Medical RMT or riot! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

omg i'm dead hahahahahahahahahaha

[kidvideo]

Players who laze around should make some effort to make gil.

omg no! He did not just call us all lazy!