Should players be able to sell Mogstation items?

[Seraphor]

For an example of where this has gone poorly - Archeage. Yes yes, AA has a multitude of other issues, but one of the contributing factors is that you can buy Apex on their website (and other market place items), and then resell it in the market. This has created an enormous amount of whales and has had a major effect on player / game balance. Has made the game majorly P2W.

Now, I realize that Archeage gameplay is vastly different than XIV gameplay. SE has designed the game so you really can't pull too far ahead of anyone else during a patch cycle. So the effects of any "P2W" are going to be substantially less in XIV, but they're still there.

I think one of the main spots you'd see this would be in the market place. Gil isn't a huge factor in this game, but it does for those who craft and like to control the market. And if people suddenly have easy access for tons of gil, inflation could then take over. Inflation will only hurt the players who don't want to have to buy extra gil (via mogstation item sale).

I'm not a fan of the idea.

Inflation wouldn't occur because this wouldn't generate gil, itd be the gil from players purchasing these items on the marketplace changing hands.

But by killing the RMT industry, you'd eliminate all of their bots that DO run automatically and generate additional gil.
This could actually fight inflation.

[Seraphor]

SE wouldn't see it like this. Letting you buy Mogstation items from other players deprives them of additional revenue you may have otherwise spent on that item in the Mogstation.

A lot, if not all mogstation items are expendable tokens that unlock addition emotes, glamours or mounts.
So no, you can't use it and then sell it on, they're one time use, and SE would be getting the same purchases either way.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It's entirely possible that it could increase rmt as well. If it's cheaper to buy the amount of gil from rmt, then buy the item off a player with that gil, than it is to buy the item off the mogstation, then that is what people will do.

[ElazulHP]

This would make the purchasing of additional retainers pay to win imo. Right now gil is pretty worthless because you can't do much with it, but the second you attach a real life currency value to it is the second it becomes pay to win. Do you really want this game to take on THAT particular stigma?

[Gemina]

If I am understanding this correctly, my view on it is it basically boils it down to RMT, and a person spending real money in exchange for game currency. In the case of selling mogstation items, if the mind is capable of bypassing ToS then it is also perfectly capable of figuring out how to make gil in the game. It's not just a waste of real life money, but also a waste of this person's mental capability.

I get buying mogstation items for personal use. I've bought a couple of items myself, but I would never use game currency to by a mogstation item because not only is against the ToS, which I AGREED to, it is also in violation of my own values.

[Derio]

[Theodric]

I'd be all for it.

[Awha]

Did not expect to see this thread again, but yeah I would still love to be able to buy mogstation items off the MB.

[Skivvy]

Did not expect to see this thread again, but yeah I would still love to be able to buy mogstation items off the MB.

lol, oh snap. We've been bamboozled. I had no idea that this was a necropost D:

[SDaemon]

lol, oh snap. We've been bamboozled. I had no idea that this was a necropost D:

Risen from the grave after almost a year, impressive! haha