Quote Originally Posted by Snow_Princess View Post
I do not understand what you are saying so I will say this to try to work it out. 320! < crafted gear IS BIS in some cases, like how a tank came to me who had a 340 gear on the right ( do not remember how many or what slot) Because of the penta melding. So you are basically buying BIS with RL money and this is a nonissue?
A few more steps involved than just "spend RL money, buy gear".

Like, oh, actually selling the game time token.

Then finding someone selling the gear you want to buy.

You're also presenting the image that it is the person selling the gear, and not SE, that gets the RL money. They would get their sub money, have no fear. The person selling the gear would get the gil you spent on it, regardless of where that gil came from, as someone else was pointing out above.

Also, having that gear be BiS is not the fault of the game token, nor for that matter, the guy who runs tank and sells the Materia from the Cracked Clusters to get that gil, nor the woman who crafts a lot of stuff to sell to make the gil to buy the gear for her tank.

Much as I'd love for SE to introduce something like EQ's Krono, I really do not see it happening, mainly due to the extra retainers. Not unless the cost was $27 each (the cost of a month sub time and six retainers).