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

[Ceodore]

This has been addressed repeatedly: the PLEX style system is incapable of creating inflation. The bots controlled by gil sellers who stand to suffer most from this system? THOSE create inflation.

Wrong again. PLEX system is implemented. So Player 1 buys a scroll and puts it up for a price. Player 2, in order to not have to pay money to play, farms and farms gil which he might not have farmed otherwise to purchase. Suddenly, more gil is being sunk into the economy for only the purpose to buy game time, gil that might not have been farmed otherwise. Gil that can also come from selling massive amounts of useless junk to vendors. Further, this system can be abused by those bots that hack accounts or obtain credit card information. Currently, all that they can do is hack and account and steal more gil or items and sell it, which is against TOS. Now, if they hack an account and steal payment information, they will just buy tons of time scolls and sell them instead. Well thought out. Currently, these gil sellers are not actually causing inflation. There is no way for them to actually do this, as there is no fountain of gil right now that they can just pull from. It's either hack accounts and steal items, which were already part of the game's economy to begin with. Steal the gil which was already also part of the economy to begin with. Or farm items and sell them for gil, which is also already part of the economy anyways. How do you really think they are getting this gil? Generating it with code? Lol. They are not selling any gil that was not already part of the economy to begin with. They are just stealing it from other players and then throwing it back in, which makes it against TOS. The most hilarious part of all of this? You honestly have no idea what you are talking about or how this actually works!