Gift option for Cash Shop/Crysta

[HakuroDK]

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.

As for the gift idea, absolutely! I know a bunch of folks in my FC want to buy a sleipnir mount for our leader for being such an amazing person.

[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.

[FinnReid]

I'd rather they would find alternative options to UGC first, I bought a bunch of game time before it retired, but once it runs out, unless they find another prepaid option soon, I won't be able to continue.

[Sessurea]

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.

As for the gift idea, absolutely! I know a bunch of folks in my FC want to buy a sleipnir mount for our leader for being such an amazing person.

I didn't mean use cash shop items with marketboard, I meant ppl using the gifting system to get rich, and then buying out marketboard at outrageous prices---> Economy phuct. And the rate would be skyrocket high. People would keep their crystra for rich ass crafters/run sellers.

[LathyrusLoon]

I would love for crysta to be giftable. Time cards are gift able, but what about my retainers or companion app? it would be nice to be able to ask for crysta for my birthday or yule, and pay for my game through that. at least for a little while.

[SassyAssassin]

Well that might not happen but you can gift away game cards, you can gift items as well, just go around in game with your friend and find out what they like by pointing at other players wearing mog station items and then send them the code.

[LianaThorne]

I didn't mean use cash shop items with marketboard, I meant ppl using the gifting system to get rich, and then buying out marketboard at outrageous prices---> Economy phuct. And the rate would be skyrocket high. People would keep their crystra for rich ass crafters/run sellers.

So it might just be 7 AM and I'm not exactly fully awake yet, but wouldn't this already be possible? You can gift items already to other players (fanta, mounts, minions, outfits, etc.), so what's stopping people from just saying "hey pay me x gil and ill send you a gift code?"

Also how would crysta do anything to affect in game...can it be converted to gil or something? If not it just seems like another way to do the example I said above, which is already possible?

Like if I'm missing the point then that's fair, it's early. Just confused.