lets talk about subscription

[Dzian]

He's referring to WoW Tokens from World of Warcraft, which can be bought for $20/€20 and sold in-game to other players for a substantial amount of Gold (in-game currency). In exchange for that gold, the buyer gets one month's worth of subscription time. The thing is, WoW's subscription model is roughly the same as FFXIV's: $15/€13 per month. Meaning that Blizzard actually makes more money per WoW token sale than they do from the would-be buyer's monthly subscription.

Oh sounds like the PLEX system in Eve online. If that still exists since it went free to play some time ago.

Not a terrible system really I used to fund my character almost entirely through plex and ground l4 missions for mondo isk.

Something similar in xiv might actually be good as it would at least get gil circulating in the economy a bit. Rather than just sitting as a stagnant and ever growing pile of money on people's retainers.

Happily drop big chunks of my gil in exchange for some game time.