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

[AlexionSkylark]

Yoshi-P. It was designed that way. Just because YOU think it's a "feature" that should be available to everyone doesn't mean that's how it was actually designed and mean to be. Check your assumptions.

Like that, except NOT? Can you show me where Yoshi-P stated that housing was meant to be a "reward for massive effort put into gil making"? I can show you a quote of him saying otherwise, right here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...Housing-Prices

The TL;DR is: the prices are inflated so the 1%ers don't buy all the land available by the first hours. As always, the 1%era are a PROBLEM to be dealt with, and nobody at SE encourages the hoarding of gil. If anything, PLEX would encourage distribution of gil.

Going f2p kinda disproves your point. It obviously wasn't doing that well.

You failed to prove anything other than other games that used it clearly didn't succeed very well. It doesn't support using such a system in this game at all. If anything it's more reasons why we shouldn't do it.

Wildstar's problems were that it was a very difficult game aimed at people who like their games to be hard, which turned out to be a too small of a niche market for the game to be profitable. It had NOTHING to do with C.R.E.D.D. And TERA's NA publisher got ORDERS from the korean developer, BlueHole Studios, to make the game F2P as they had done in Korea. The game was doing fairly well at the time. Your point is completely and utterly moot.