Subscription

[Arngrim_Greyashe]

What if they did a subscription for gil system like in WoW. Basically means you can buy a subscription and sell it to other players for gill. If you need more gill, you can sell a subscription and if you need more irl money, you can buy subscription with gil. Would perhaps also decrease RMT activity.

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[SamRF]

I don't think it would work with Gil, considering we have A LOT of rich people with billions stocked on retainers because of HWS broken market, maybe a new currency?

Why wouldn't this work? Supply and demand would take care of it. This would just mean that the price of a subscription with gil would be very high. It doesn't really make a difference for SE since they will be selling same amount of subscriptions or more (unless people stop playing this game due to this feature).

[yTony]

Why wouldn't this work? Supply and demand would take care of it. This would just mean that the price of a subscription with gil would be very high. It doesn't really make a difference for SE since they will be selling same amount of subscriptions or more (unless people stop playing this game due to this feature).

I know some people who have literally all retainers with max amount of gil. Not counting their FC banks. If the purpose is to break the RMT market, you'd be doing exactly the opposite giving these people the chance to convert Gil in IRL money in a rightful way.
That been said, you also have the majority of people in this game who doesn't have gil at all and that would either make the converting gil into game-time impossible, because of the ratio, or bringing even more RMT to the game.
Also, making gil in FF is something that makes you spend a lot of time, sitting in MB for example, undercutting people and stuff. You wouldn't be playing the game to get more game time, so what's the point?

[SamRF]

I know some people who have literally all retainers with max amount of gil. Not counting their FC banks. If the purpose is to break the RMT market, you'd be doing exactly the opposite giving these people the chance to convert Gil in IRL money in a rightful way.
That been said, you also have the majority of people in this game who doesn't have gil at all and that would either make the converting gil into game-time impossible, because of the ratio, or bringing even more RMT to the game.
Also, making gil in FF is something that makes you spend a lot of time, sitting in MB for example, undercutting people and stuff. You wouldn't be playing the game to get more game time, so what's the point?

Well you wouldn't really earn real life money but you'll save money for not spending on subscription. Perhaps make some kind of system in which you can only buy 1 subscription every month on 1 char so the gil billionaires can't completely wreck the supply. You would kind of break the RMT market since all money goes to SE instead of a third party (since you can only buy/sell subscriptions).

edit: RMT likely wouldn't go aways since WoW seems to also still have RMT, it would perhaps at least decrease it.

[yTony]

Well you wouldn't really earn real life money but you'll save money for not spending on subscription. Perhaps make some kind of system in which you can only buy 1 subscription every month on 1 char so the gil billionaires can't completely wreck the supply. You would kind of break the RMT market since all money goes to SE instead of a third party (since you can only buy/sell subscriptions).

I was considering buying subscription from those people, get it? Just like people buy gil nowadays.
I mean, I'd appreciate if it comes to the game but I think it would be troublesome.