CREDD/PLEX/WoW Token system

[Selova]

No.

Keep pay to win out of XIV. These systems allow whales to legally buy currency and destroy game economies.

I've seen these systems in multiple games and it leads to inflation and even more cash shop items instead of in-game rewards.

It would do none of these things. Not unless they started making raid drops from Savage and Ultimate BoE, which they obviously aren't ever doing. People love to throw the P2W term around without understanding what it actually entails. You are aware that FFXIV has the biggest cash shop out of all the subscription MMO's right?

WoW's cash shop doesn't even come close to offering nearly as many things as our cash shop does. (I have no issue with the mogstation cash shop, and think it's completely fine) WoW's economy is also perfectly fine, since you obviously can't buy BiS slot gear off the AH. I honestly don't care if they add it or not, but let's not jump the shark with false assumptions.


People also seem to not understand that the reason WoW Created the WoW token was to combat RMT/Gold sellers which has done incredibly successfully. So if SE implemented their own system to get rid of the ridiculous amount of RMT spammers that plague the game, I'd be all for it.

[Shougun]

People also seem to not understand that the reason WoW Created the WoW token was to combat RMT/Gold sellers which has done incredibly successfully. So if SE implemented their own system to get rid of the ridiculous amount of RMT spammers that plague the game, I'd be all for it.

The system doesn't combat RMT. It may lower third party RMT but it will not combat RMT as if anything it will increase total RMT, since it is itself RMT. Gil sellers and spam also exist past the addition of this system, WoW is still developing new and better filtering and anti-cheat systems to combat that (since this system will not stop it, third party RMT isn't killed from this). Running bots and spam/account hacks is relatively cheap, you won't kill them with these things (they're unkillable).

WoW added this because it harvests the whales (whale used a bit loosely here lol). Like how diablo 3 real money auction house didn't kill third party RMT (sites were live and active, lots of bots in the system too), just put blizzard in on the RMT revenue stream.