So I was pondering why RMT is so successful and I managed to observe some things that I wonder if anyone just had a conversation about, without attacking eachother. This is a long shot so here I go.

I believe RMT is wildly popular because of older players. I noticed a few people sitting on 500 mil plus. Now if you are playing from the start of the game till today, that's a no brainer and you can say with confidence that gil has no use. Still you have so much gil and this leads to overvaluation of your time and what you deem an acceptable price for something.

I see things priced on the market board that's in the realm of absurdity. To someone who has 500 mil it's not absurd, but to someone who has 500k it is absurd. I asked around and it seems to me people price things relative to their own wealth and and VASTLY overestimate and overvalue there skills and tome. Rich players feeding other rich players this overvalued mentality while newer players are straight up gate kept from participating. Then older players tell newer players to pick them selves up by their boot straps because if I have 75 mil to drop on a new mount so do you!

Look at the new bed mount, in reality with a few PF you could get the mats and be done with it. Overall I see that being worth maybe 3-5 mil maximum but since prices are relative only to the wealthy they sell for 70 mil and of course people buy them amongst themselves, alienating newer players who dont have the time for multiple map runs, thus it's a time= money but in a reasonable scale. Just because 70 mil is reasonable to a rich person doesn't mean its reasonable to a average player, also reason doesn't scale upwards.

Then comes RMT, newer players have little time invested so they can risk buying RMT for 20 bucks to give them selves a leg up, its basically getting a small 1 million dollar loan from you father. It seems insignificant but it adds up. So RMT seems like a no brainer if you want to enjoy certain aspects of the game within a reasonable time frame ( not 10 years later and being a sweaty try hard). This leads to a new problem, these RMT gold buyers, then buy these items at these absurd prices and reinforce the sellers mentality thus perpetuating the entire problem.

Maybe we should increase the taxes on the richer players so eliminate some of this excess gil in the system. Seriously so it would then put them in line with your average player and bring prices down across the board and make more of the game accessible to the player base in a reasonable time.