SE Please implement a Chonoscroll/PLEX system in FFXIV: ARR

[Nuinn]

Except you forgot a VERY important part in your equation, and that is, for every dollar you spent and covert into GIL, is gil that you will spend for your item purchases and in fact benefits many other players because they can convert their play time into gil-profit to also better themselves.

This by nature also sets a more true balance supply and demand cycle for the market, as people now can set a cost range for in game items against real money. IE: Back when I was playing EVE, PLEX was pigged at 300m, so players were calculating on the bases of 20m = $1.

So no, it doesn't just benefit you as you have envisioned it. It benefits all parties.

Someone just brought up that RMTs can corner the market by buying all the PLEX and resell at higher prices. Besides the fact that it takes thousands of dollars and really illogical for them, don't forgot the given condition here is that ANYONE can buy PLEX with real cash and place a sell order on the market to fuel the supply. So when the in game price goes up, more players will go buy PLEX and add it back into the market. So if anything, RMT really wants to avoid cornering the market this way, as they want your money, not spend their money.

jc

I agree, but it still basically means that I, still, am at an advantage of getting more gil, in a shorter amount of time. . . .
. . . .buying the "new" items off the market as soon as they appear
. . . .can deliver quest supplies faster by not having to grind them etc.

provided I have more real money that I can spend.

And as I mentioned in another post, RMT won't just cease to exist, they could well offer the double or triple amount of gil for the average price of a game time item, which is to say that people who were willing and still are willing to take that risky route could get more gil illegally that by reselling the, legal, game time item. I would love to think that RMT will vanish completely, and that I'll no longer see trains of Lalafell in Cedarwood or fishbots near Camp Bald Knoll, but I'd be a fool to believe it.

Not saying that it wouldn't suck for the people that can't afford subscriptions, taking in account that I myself might, at some point, not be able to pay for them.

I just want someone, anyone, to tell me, how it's not an advantage for anyone, legal way or not, to be able to get gil by selling an item, he bought for real money, in under 30min if they /shout with a good price.