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

[Cynthis]

NOTE: This post is entirely hypothetical- I do not condone, and I am not encouraging the acts in any way- It is merely to make a point.

These numbers are also entirely not to scale. Merely to be used as an example:

Scenario 1: Buyable, tradeable Crysta


Scenario 1: True RMT


Both scenarios, at face value, have the potential free market appeal to them, one managed more by the present gil value of a subscription, the other by the dollar value of gil.

True RMT has an additional factor, that of encouraging gilsellers to use players and accounts by "camping" areas designed to be shared for profit. This issue, however, is largely preventable in present MMO game design, by isolating the activities between players, such as the leve system or a large selection of camps with similaly valued drops.

Apart from the above factor, very little is different between the two concepts. The above differences certainly cannot be the only reason why RMT is such a stigma, so I ask you what you think makes RMT so bad, and this so good? Please be specific.

As I see it the thought is that RMTs don't legitimately "play" the game. They use bots or other systems to make gil which causes inflation after they sell it and it is spent by the buyers. The thought is that in a system like the one proposed, people who play a lot and have more gil than they really know what to do with anyway can use some of that gil to essentially pay for their subscription. Of course this assumes that the gil legitimate players are holding would at some point be spent anyway but is now only being redistributed. I think that is a reasonable assumption since in the long run, if people feel there is nothing in the game to spend gil on then the game is probably in serious trouble because of a lack of content.

People with more money than time who really need the gil since they have little time to farm for gil can get that gil from these players instead of from RMTs. The difference being that there would be lower inflation and 2 different types of legitimate players would both be happier and continue to play.