Quote Originally Posted by Huginn View Post
Real world money for in game (non U/U)items/money destroys a game.
You exchange real world money for crysta. You exchange crysta for gametime or for the amount of gil another player is willing to pay for the amount you're offering. You receive either gametime or gil. The player who bought your stock receives your crysta. Why would he buy crysta? Because he wants gametime. He exchanges your crysta for gametime. The crysta are gone, the gil changed hands. End of story.

Now, when exactly was the game destroyed in your opinion? The gil were redistributed, not generated. Why do you expect whoever exchanges crysta for gil to be a bad person? Maybe he wants to help out a friend who's short on money or recover from an absence?


Quote Originally Posted by Huginn View Post
It really does not matter if the company who owns the game runs the trade or not. It destroys a level playing field. in XI, if you wanted a scorpion harness or peaock charm circa 2006, you would either need to spend $20 real life money or farm and craft and sell rare items for months to gather up the 40million gil (unless you were one of the few obtaining the items or in a good HNMLS which would make you the top 3% of players for gil/item generation) So how is it fair to let someone pay real life money to circumvent playing the game normally in order to have what is generally unobtainable to the rest of the players?


I don't know what's fair in your opinion. What i do know is that RMT run, regulated and hardcapped by SE will earn money for them. Money they so desperatley need to keep going. Also, the guy buying his gear still is a bad player bcause he's lacking experience, otherwise he would have access to enough resouces and jobs to craft it himself.

People were, are and will always be RMTing.
RMTing is like a Drug.
Don't ban it.
Legalise it, regulate it, tax it.

Also: Damn, 3 month of work ingame or 20$ worth of RL currency? Sounds like a really fucked up economy.


Quote Originally Posted by Huginn View Post
What would happen if best korea were able to use the souls of its citizens to get resources from the Æther, making it able to destroy all other nations on the earth? in effect, this is what happens when you allow RMT. RMT means real money trading, it is not explusive to illegal RMT endeavors (all of which are currently illicit in this game, even though they are permitted in some other games.)
I know the meaning of the term RMT, thanks for reminding me though.