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

[KayoZ]

Elementary my dear ... Duuude007.

A PLEX type system basically allows anyone to be a gil seller. When you buy a game-time token and pay for it in gil, you are effectively selling gil. The more sellers of gil there are, the lower the price of gil. RMT earns less.

Right now RMT has a monopoly on RL money to gil conversion. With a PLEX system, their monopoly will be broken.

Anything that will screw over those RMT spamming bastards is a positive in my book.

For the 100th time, it doesnt hurt them at all. They will still spam, they will still bot, still hack and steal gil, and still make plenty of profits. In fact this may even help them out even more. Sure, some people will buy from SE now to lower the risk, but SE will never be able to compete. There is a limit on how much gil players are willing to buy game time with, and SE cannot sell this "token" for any less than the price of a sub (well, the can but there is no point). All this does is legalize it and get even more players buying gold on both ends. Maybe even get the illegal RMT to double there efforts to entice players with even more annoying ads, get players to buy more from them with lower prices.

No game that has tried this has stopped them or even helped the situation at all. Not Eve, not Wildstar, none! All it does is fill both pockets with more money, make players more dependent on buying gold to make their gil instead of increasing supply through crafting or actual gameplay. As much as I expect todays "gamers" to be perfectly ok to throwing money at a game to actually play less of it... just admit that and be done with it. Claiming that this is a good thing thatll stick it to those mean gold sellers that have been hacking and annoying us for years now, is dishonest and proven false.