Quote Originally Posted by Psion View Post
I would say that this is by far the stupidest comment i've ever seen, but sadly there is worse.

If you think a games economy doesn't matter in an MMO, you're wrong. dead. wrong. The economy is everything related to trading, whether it be consumables, armor and weapons, rare items for decorating your house... everything. When the economy goes to crap, no one is able to find the armor they want, no one can find the food they need to do well in those hard fights like garuda, and everyone's experience takes a turn for the worse. This means people will actually quit due to how sucky the game is to play, frustrated they can't find anything in the wards they need.

As for the STF? they did a heroic job, to be sure... but RMT still existed and thrived. When they banned bots from the endgame scene, they took to botting normal mobs, camping lesser NMs, spamming annoying tells at people, and poshacking and mining underground in mount zalyolm. I even found one in freaking fort karugo-narugo doing that with the cacti there for nopales. Its like the war on drugs, you can do all you can to fight it, but they are far more numerous and will find creative ways to get around you.

And just because other games do it doesn't mean its a good idea? Maybe not, but when 2 successful MMOs do it, it's a good idea to look into. It's called industry standards, man. If other companies are doing a PLEX system and are finding noticable improvements to subscriptions while hurting RMT activity, don't you think it at least has some merit? Certainly it doesn't warrant being called "stupid".
It doesn't matter as in it didn't really affect much, yeah the price of everything went way down but it was across the board, everybody adjusted to it. An MMO isn't a real economy where you have your life savings in the stock market that can become worthless if the market crashes, most people don't save their money on these games. The people that did save their money were suddenly a lot richer but it didn't have an impact on most people.

This threads idea doesn't eliminate RMT, it creates it. The STF is a better way to go if you want to fight RMT, and plus SE has years worth of experience with fighting RMT now, they could be even more efficient than they were in XI.