http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...=1#post2638553

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I don't understand why people have such issues with this. This should curb some of the incentive for people to buy botted gil.


Person A spends a great deal of time grinding in the game. Let's just say they are good at everything and they work really hard at it - crafting/gathering/desynth/spiritbonding/selling primals and coil fights/playing the market for capital gain/you name it- and this person A earns millions of gil doing all of these things. Time in the game is important to person A. He enjoys earning gil and is proud of his accomplishments in the game.

Person B spends a great deal of time grinding in real life. Maybe they built some kind of business and work really hard at it, whatever it is that they chose to do - and this person B earns hundreds of thousands of dollars doing what he does. This person works hard doing whatever it is that he chose to do. Maybe this person has a family and decides that although he likes to play this game, time in his career and family is more important to person B than time grinding for things in the game. He enjoys his life irl and is proud of his accomplishments there.

Persons A and B both want to enjoy whatever aspect of the game they choose. They just have two distinct paths of doing exactly the same thing. Person A would rather spend his time playing the game grinding than grinding in real life for real money because the game is way more enjoyable to him than whatever work he chose to do. Person B would rather spend his time earning real money because grinding for gil is less enjoyable for him. So with the real money he spent his time earning he pays for a wedding band and puts it up on the marketboard to make some gil. With the gil that person A spent his time earning he buys the wedding band because he doesn't want to spend real money on the game.

So person A wins because he didn't want to have to spend real money and he didn't have to. Person B wins because he didn't have to spend time grinding gil and he didn't have to. Square enix wins because they earned some revenue in this transaction. Persons A and B can both continue to enjoy the game even better than they otherwise would have because square enix is able to afford to invest even more into it from the extra revenue. Persons A and B win again because this takes away from the botters' market share of gil buying. This drives down the price that these botters can sell gil for because some percentage of the market for gil-buying is being satisfied due to the gil sale of these cash shop items. Would be cool if it lowered all the way down to breaking even for the botters what with subscription fees, etc. for all their bots vs. money made by their bots (which would put them bankrupt and out of business!!) Imagine an FFXIV experience with no spam bots!

Any haters will at least be able to agree with this let's count the wins: win-win-win-winwin-winwin. 7 wins is pretty good maybe even 8 because SE wins they don't have to spend as much resources banning bots! Now let's count the losses: ... 0?

Guys please take a step back and realize that the primary currency in life is time and we can all spend it however we choose