Let me just leave this here.

[LineageRazor]

just so you know, classic RMT prices I see are about $1 per million.

Buy RMT gils, buy a ring for 10m or less, you got plat wedding for less than SE is selling it for. And now you can laugh at SE's approval of RMT activities (selling IG currency for real money. Doesn't matter if it's a player paying an other with real money, it's still RMT activities)

An important difference is that folks, in general, KNOW that dealing with third-party RMT is risky, shady business; you can get banned if you get caught doing it, and even if you don't there's always the baggage that comes with such dealings (for instance, unrelenting spam mail). That's why a lot of folks avoid it, even when the prices are ridiculously cheap.

As such, I doubt that this will increase use of third-party RMT. Folks that would have used it before will continue to do so, and those that refrained will find other ways to pay for their wedding.

No the real worry is whether SE has opened a can of worms with a seemingly legitimate form of RMT, since players can purchase bracelets and sell them for a ton of in-game gil. The exchange rate may not be as good as that of third-party RMT, but it's a lot harder to look at it and say, "This is wrong," when SE themselves seem to be indirectly endorsing it...

[DenzelTaru]

That awkward moment SE realise they enabled RMT