Quote Originally Posted by Shibi View Post
They used that in EQ2. But FFXIV doesn't have enough sinks to take the gold out of the system once it's created so freely. So the rarer items will become more expensive. Instead of 1 gilcap FC house sales you will see 10 gilcap FC house sales.

Cash poor players could grind up a months subscription in gold and buy a month from the marketboard.
Cash rich players could buy a token and list it on the marketboard for cash.

The end result is a bunch more people doing run-for-gil and the increase in party finder/shout advertising as they try to catch the players who want to be carried to the top of the raid tier / a pvp title.
Yeah. You would have to get the balancing right.

SWTOR allowed cartel store items (basically paid items) to be sold on the in-game store with absolutely no credit sinks.

The result was hyper-inflation, and now a new player would have to farm for 15-20 minutes to be able to afford a simple crafting mat.

So, you are right. Gil sinks would need to be in place, or hyper-inflation is likely to happen.