Why no Plex system?

[frostmagemari]

This is the part I don't believe most understand. I think a lot of the opposition thinks some people just magically have more money.
I has a job, I work a lot. I play FFXIV to relax, not to put in another 40 hours a week farming for stuff. My time is worth significantly more than 15 extra dollars a week.. or even 100. Giving your players the option to trade money for removing tedium is smart.
In the end we are all spending TIME. How you spend it is entirely up to you though.

I don't know why people seem to think that the gil would just appear from no where... but people seem to.

I really don't see the adverse effects people are being all apocalyptic about either. Having the game-time tokens sellable on the marketplace wouldn't cause inflation, if anything, it'd do a good bit of evening out the disparity in gil. People who have tons of gil are able to spend it on tokens that will usually be sold by those who have more RL money than they do time to make in-game gil. You'll rarely find the person with 100million gil selling the tokens, but you'll definitely see him buying them and spreading the gil in the system around more.
All the while, you give people less and less reason to buy from gil sellers; people who actively bring more gil into the system more than any individual player via their farming methods.
Left untouched, this game's economy will become near the situation that XI found itself in, and i'd rather not have to pay those prices again.