Losing the RMT spam war SE?

[tocsin]

I came here looking for my daily SCUBA-INSTR post, relating to RMT, and it wasn't here. im sad. Come back, fiar lady, even if I don't agree with you!

anyways, just to stir the pot a bit (mah specialty!) I might say that SE may have a budding interst in keeping at least a part of the RMT industry alive. The entire crafting system in FFXIV would be completely unsustainable, without RMT shard bots. Literally, if all RMT was instantaneously shut down, the entire economy derivated from shards (crafted goods, potions, food) would all instantly skyrocket to 10 to 50 times its current pricing, due to lack of shard supply.

RMT is a backbone of the FFXIV crafting system. fact.

[Kosmos992k]

The entire crafting system in FFXIV would be completely unsustainable, without RMT shard bots. Literally, if all RMT was instantaneously shut down, the entire economy derivated from shards (crafted goods, potions, food) would all instantly skyrocket to 10 to 50 times its current pricing, due to lack of shard supply.

RMT is a backbone of the FFXIV crafting system. fact.

Well, it might impact the sale of basic lvl 50 weapons and accessories so beloved of 'bots, but since those are sold on the open market, it's not like anyone is trying to sell to 'bots, but no RMT would decimate the sale of such items.

Not sure that having basic materials suddenly undergo a price correction would be a bad thing, it would restore the value to the efforts of gatherers.

Its actually proven to be a VERY good way to mitigate RMT spam as they won't exert the effort to spam a game that they can't profit from.

Proven? Not sure I agree about it being proven, that seems rather counter intuitive since RMT can take advantage of their automated gil fountains ('bots) to purchase those PLEX items to 'pay' for their time reducing their basic cost of operation. I honestly don't think that this PLEX thing you promote would do anything more than decrease the $$ value of gil in the sort term and enable more MRT in the long term.