Gift option for Cash Shop/Crysta

[Mjollnir]

Noobs getting rich, and destroying the marketboard. No thanks.

edit; and yes, theres probably that 1/500 ppl who would actually like to gift a friend stuff. So don't go getting forum white knight on me please.

I can see your concern and I agree. Ah well, was just trying to come up with a way of making this damnable cash shop more appealing. Guess I'll go back to hating on it again for now.

Pretty sure all of the cash shop items are unsellable/untradeable, so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that anyone who sees this as a get-rich-quick-on-the-market-board scheme is just slinging jade.

It's more about 'gilbuyer' shouts "selling Papalymo Minion gift for 1mil gil"; you have to send them 1mil gil and then they spend $2 gifting you the minion. They've just bought 1mil gil for $2. On the plus side, SE get a ton of cash from gilbuyers (rather than RMT). On the minus side, the economy collapses and SE have no recourse as they have sanctioned the action. On the funny side, we'd get a ton of threads here about people being double-crossed during their transaction.

I can't think of a way around it. Gating the ability to send gifts or restricting the number you can send per character just delays or can be worked around with additional characters. It's a damned shame.