Discussion: How Can We Handle Botting Better?

[JackHatchet]

Selling gil like Warcraft does will not cause inflation.

Because the way Warcraft does it is allow people with gold to exchange their currently in-game gold for game-time tokens. The people paying with dollars are basically buying subs for people in exchange for their gold (which is already in the ecosystem). So it doesn't add to inflation.

However...

FFXIV is not Warcraft, and there's a lot of FFXIV crafters sitting at millions and billions of gil with nothing to spend it on, because gil is worthless to a point. So if that gil all of a sudden had value (game time tokens or mogstation items, the release of gil from gil-barons into the market could cause an inflation. But on the other hand. How damaging can gil be when so many people have so much of it and just hoard it anyways? Gil can't do you squat beyond a house and crafted gear.

[KisaiTenshi]

Selling gil like Warcraft does will not cause inflation.

Because the way Warcraft does it is allow people with gold to exchange their currently in-game gold for game-time tokens. The people paying with dollars are basically buying subs for people in exchange for their gold (which is already in the ecosystem). So it doesn't add to inflation.

Don't even propose this. That's what the botters run by players want to happen. The RMT botters won't be put out of business as long as the game has a means to trade it. All game tokens for gil would do is put a cap on the price, not get rid of it, and it's a failure in games that have implemented it. The core problem here is that SE doesn't do enough/anything to combat the bots in the first place.

Keep in mind that if you were to remove all the gathering bots that prices on gathered goods would skyrocket.

That's the point.

A player may have another PC or "alt" that they run their market stuff via multi-boxing just so that they can wait in queues on their play machine and market on their weaker machine that is otherwise too weak to play on. But that's just a theory, as I doubt there's many players multiboxing, just players who have more time than sense and what floats their boat is being that guy who has everything people want.