Why no Plex system?

[RichardButte]

What you think will happen when you throw in legal RMT in the mix of a really bad shortage like that? There are people that have an insane amount of gil stockpiles, and what do you think will happen if you put that in circulation?

One of the reasons (if not THE reason) people have these "insane stockpiles" of gil is due to RMT bots farming up massive amounts of gil, which in turn causes rampant inflation.

Curbing RMT makes in-game prices go back to being reasonable because once all of the excess money has left the market, there aren't as many RMT bots around to cause inflation.

There is no additional currency being generated via plex, it's just one player giving money to another player.

In the case of RMT, automated programs are literally left running for the specific purpose of generating mountains of gil to sell to players. Subtract this gil and things would be better all around.

what makes you think they can handle econ crises that may come out of introducing the plex system here? or comment on an issue with 200+ likes?)

First of all, them commenting on threads has zero correlation to how they handle the economy.

Second, if they want to add more gil sinks, like I said earlier, just throw some 50 million gil mounts on a vendor somewhere (like WoW did).

Third, there won't be an economic crisis. There wasn't one in EVE, there wasn't one in WoW, and there won't be one here.

Stop "Chicken Littling".