Me:
  • Have a gazillion of real life coins to spend
  • Buy game time items
  • Sell game time items to other players for gil

You:
  • Don't have as much real life coins as me
  • Are willing to grind some gil ingame
  • Decide to buy game time item from me

Me:
  • Now have more gil than I used to
  • Decide to buy more game time items (since I still have a gazillion more real life coins to spare)
  • Sell those game time items
  • Now have even more gil
  • Now can afford to pay 40k gil for an item I need (like a double-melded weapon for relic quest, or whatever else I desire from the wards/AH since I'm rich now ingame just as I'm rich in real life)

Other players 1:
  • See the transaction history in wards/AH
  • Decide they will put up their items for higher prices, since obviously someone can buy them
  • Hope the rich person will buy their stuff so that they can afford a game time scroll or the high-priced items, of which the prices in gil they themselves raised that high


Other players 2:
  • Don't have that much money in real life, but can pay for subscription
  • Don'T have the time or the will to grind 40k for an overpriced item
  • Checks wards/AH transaction history
  • Says "Oh f*ck"
  • Curses the playerbase for inflating the prices
  • Curses SE for allowing it

Me:
  • Can now buy whatever I want from wards/AH
  • Do so whenever possible since I know that if I need gil, I can always sell more game time items as I'm still rich in real life
  • Gil has no real value for me, I can buy whatever I want, for whatever the asking price

Other people:
  • Can't. . . .

Some people:
  • Still think it this has no impact on the ingame economy

Me:
  • LOL!