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

[Tiggy]

I understand how it works just fine and your sob story changes nothing about a single thing I said. Keep assuming I don't get it though. I disagree with you. Deal with it.

Nice try attempting to appeal to my emotions with that sob story instead of making an actual point about how it won't effect the economy. I'll just leave this here. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Emotional_appeal

Now, PLEX is the answer to BOTH Bill and Timmy. Timmy can now play for FREE, thanks to all the gil he's amassed, and Bill can buy his dreamhouse by the lake with TIMMY'S money. Not money created out of thin air, like a real money fountain (like a levequest or a duty roulette run) would do, but money that ALREADY EXISTED on the system, IN TIMMY'S CHARACTER, which will DISAPPEAR from the world the minute Bill buys his house. Money that would otherwise be kept in Timmy's account.

You DO realize money has to actually move around and be spent to have an economy right? Right? In your above scenario those two players aren't doing a thing to stimulate the games economy and you think that's a good thing? Really?

by people utterly horrified by the notion of change.

Best assumption in the whole thread by far.

The PLEX system works and it works well.

By all means show a different game other than Eve where such a system works. Eve's economy is very different from normal MMOs after all. So far only Tera and Wildstar have been presented as normal MMOs and quite honestly both of those games aren't doing so well and so they don't make very good examples since we can't separate out the specific effect the RMT system had on player satisfaction.