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

[Ceodore]

Ceo...what are you talking about? Your whole argument not only contradicts itself, it backs up my argument. What you are saying is that its ok that certain people have more time to play than others and that if you don't have the time to play, then boo hoo. But if said person has more money than you to enjy the game, than its not fair? really. And that said person should "re-evaluate" whether videogames are important? How about if you don't have as much RL money to put into the game than someone else, then maybe that person should "re-evaluate" if having more money is important to them? See what i did? It goes Both ways. now heres the problem....everyone pays the same sub price but thee are people that get more out of their sub than others because of the time they can spend.

Its like saying hey, you have netflix and i have netflix, but you have more time to watch the movies with your sub than I do, so you don't want me to pay someone a little money to borrow their sub because its not fair to you. If said person buys gil by selling a sub, how is that hurting you? Please explain. Stop saying they buy gear that most people already have. Stop saying they will buy up all of the houses, which are already bought up by the people that had time to make the money to buy houses, stop saying they buy a run in coil, which doesn't effect you at all. Why would this sytem hurt you besides that you can't say you worked harder than someone else in game time? Is it your ego you are worried about?

Stop saying inflation. Gil isn't being created with the push of a button. At best, it would be transferred. How many of you are sitting on millions of gil? not 3 or 4 mil, but like 20, 30, 50 mil. What are you hoarding it for if you don't need a house? Its the same as whats going on in the RL economy. We have 1 to 2 percent of the people holding +90% of the money. You wanna stimulate the economy? You guys need to put the money back into the economy. You wanna know how that can happen? If you guys that have nothing to spend gil on alll of a sudden have something to spend gil on....like a sub. Make you "hard" work pay off even more by earning free subs. WTF is wrong with that?

Not that it isn't fair, because what's fair and right doesn't matter. It's more about what they really should be doing instead, from a financial perspective. If they want to spend their money on an in game cash shop item, or spend their money on buying items to sell for gil, that's their prerogative. What I was pointing out is that the people who benefit the most are those with both time and money, which would benefit players like myself who can play and work at the same time. But, that's not what I want to get at. There are real in game effects to this system that can be catastrophic. It WILL drive up market prices. It WILL put the gil in the hands of the people who have the most money as well as the most time. It WILL make new players to the game have to spend real money to make easier progress through the game, but also have to spend more real money, since the ones already at the top won't be required to do the same to make progress. When you make it harder on the new players, you lose in coming subscriptions. When you lose those incoming players, price wars among the players at the top begins, and your player base dwindles.

I'd like to also point out something else about WoW's time scroll system that is being implemented. First, you buy the scroll, then you have the choice to either use it for yourself, or sell it. The market board on their game is going to give you a set price that you can sell it for which can not be changed by the player. THIS does not cause inflation, as it's essentially as if you are vendoring the item instead. You don't get a choice in the price, the game sets it. (This information has also been confirmed with my partner, a veteran WoW player himself of over 8 years and current player)