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

[Abriael]

Lets call it what it is: Crysta.

A player buys crysta from lodestone with IRL money, and sells it in the market wards for gil.

Its a feature that makes it so that players can forego paying cash and instead paying a game currency toll to keep playing.

How again does this stop RMT? It seems to me to have little to do with RMT, apart from letting them play without having to pay a sub.

That could work, even if it would be a little less intuitive (you have to buy the right number of crysta instead of buying a single item), but the effect would be pretty much equivalent, yes.

It hampers RMT because it gives player a legal outlet to convert real money into gil (it NEVER works the other way around, to be noted. you CANNOT convert chronoscrolls or PLEX back into real money) benefitting other players at the same time.

Players that want to do so, have two options:

1: purchase the plex/crhonoscroll/crysta/whateveryouwannacallit directly from Square Enix, legally and risking nothing.

2: purchase the gil from gillsellers, risking to be banned if uncovered or at the very least to see the gil removed, losing their purchase.

Most players would resort to option 1 as it's risk-free and completely guaranteed by Square Enix, removing a lot of potential customers from the gilseller market. At this point all the gilsellers can do to defend their business is to lower their prices enough to offset the risks for a sufficient amount of players. They can, but that still makes their business a lot less profitable, potentially sending many of them out of business or making them abandon the game as unprofitable for their time (it's better for them to work on games in which they don't have to cope with this sistem), as it cuts them where it hurts the most (in their wallet).

That's quite a dent in the gilselling business, with added benefits in other areas (account retention) as well.