It's time to reevaluate the idea of adding a PLEX/Chronoscroll-like system to FFXIV

[Dervy]

Dungeon runs bought with Gil, you said that content is to win- with plex buy Gil with real money and buy wins. P2w. The benifit of the system may be worth a cost but it is still pay to win no matter. Also Diablo 3 proved that RMT can go through any anti rmt system(EVE also has rmt), it really did help ruin the economy (though Diablo had a number of other issues for that).

That's because Diablo 3 was a P2W game. No matter which ever way you think about it or try to word it, it was P2W. That's what ruined the Economy in that game and that's why the first iteration of that game was such a flop (among many, many other things).

I don't see what's really P2W in this game. Yah, you can buy a T9 Kill, okay, grats, now what? It doesn't change the fact you need to find yourself a static and put effort and time into FCOB to actually get the best gear, something you cannot buy with Gil (There's only a VERY few groups who can do T10/T11 carrys, and those are extremely expensive runs and no guaranteed loot either). You still need to do your weekly tome-cap and do hunts/WoD weekly to upgrade poetics to i130, something you cannot purchase with gil either. All the best/top-end gear is locked behind either a Time-gate or a Grind-gate. None of it, excluding crafted gear, can you purchase with gil. And even with Crafted gear, there's still a fall off for when it's no longer effective over i130 pieces.

Another interesting this is that yes, this will slowly stop RMT. It will not eradicate it, but the in-game economy can directly compete with whatever RMTers are selling their Gil for. Actually, in a lot of games which has a "PLEX" type subscription system, it turns out to be more cost-efficient to buy in-game currency through this system, rather than an "illegal" 3rd party.

If anyone saying "HURR THIS WILL BRING P2W" has clearly never played a real P2W game in their life.