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

[Snugglebutt]

Adding officially sanctioned systems like PLEX will not reduce RMT and especially will not reduce RMT spam, it will increase RMT spam and I know this from experience in other games that use such services as the RMT sellers are forced to compete for your attention even more so they spam you more trying to get that attention away from their competition. Secondly the number of both player bots and RMT farming bots will increase, again I have seen this happen in pretty much all MMO's like this one which have such services since the sense of disparity between the have and have nots is increased, the ones who put in the hard work still stay at the top only then along side those who can afford to P2W, a lot of those left behind get even more depressed and resort to botting along side the RMT increasing the number of bots they use to increase and cheapen the cost of their services to compete. WoW for example has never had as many bots as it does these days after the introduction of the token system and it has more RMT spam than ever before.

Thirdly the RMT will control around 90% to 95%% of the PLEX system by buying up en masse the majority of the PLEX's which would be sold in the game for gil and then selling that gil on for even higher price...people will not stop buying gil even if price of gil rises and do not forget game time is not the primary reason people buy gil from RMT but if RMT sell it the majority of sales will go to them in game. Not as many people will be selling as many PLEX compared to RMT which will make the player selling such the outlier and RMT the main source. I have seen this happen in many MMO's that use such token systems like PLEX where can buy it with real money and sell in game for the games currency, the RMT control the majority of sales in game and the price of in game currency they sell goes up but not anywhere near the level which would make it unprofitable for RMT. People would still be buying it from them and the most of the PLEX sales will go to them too, you will just end up giving them another source of gil making for which they can sell on for a profit.

I was going to make a point about how it would be nice if a GM or Dev replied to this thread telling everyone in what those of us with common sense already know, that they have no intention or plans currently to implement such a system. Implementing such will cost them a lot of the player base they have built up so far and especially many of us who have been here since version 1.0...but then I remembered how pointless saying such would be, the reality is those for such systems have no evidence they have any plans to introduce a token or PLEX type system to this game and those who want such a system are simply relying on wishful thinking as they have no evidence such a system is incoming. So a Dev or GM has no reason to reply to this thread, the thread is pointless and lacks any evidence that such P2W/token/PLEX systems is either planned or that SE intends to implement such. Those of us opposed to the introduction of such have nothing to worry about though it is still possible to argue with those who want the system but we do not need to given those who want it have no evidence it will happen or that it is planned for this game.