Quote Originally Posted by MaFi0s0 View Post
Broken down to its essentials it does 3 things:

1) Its main thing, people who would otherwise buy Gil from RMT farmers instead are buying tokens from the Mog Station, along with honest players.

2) It redistributes Gil a little, eg rich players buy the tokens from the MB giving poor players Gil. This improves the economy greatly.

3) Allows more poeple to play: a) People who dont have time to farm for Gil and mats, b) People who dont want to pay a monthly sub.

Its win win for players and devs and a kick in the teeth to RMT.
In that case RIP our economy, just like WoW's. EVE is the only game that did this decently well, but even then the PLEX part of the economy is super weird and has lead to crazy inflation over the years.