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

[Nuru]

Wait... so there are no new subscriptions, and yet there is an influx of new 12yr old FTP types??

There will be new subscriptions, just not a guaranteed monthly payment towards the game devs. It really is a broken system, even if the items were un-tradable, it would still cause for financial instability as it is not guaranteed that every subscription would be paying every month. With this, you are recycling that item, which generates no revenue at all.

[Zantetsuken]

There will be new subscriptions, just not a guaranteed monthly payment towards the game devs. It really is a broken system, even if the items were un-tradable, it would still cause for financial instability as it is not guaranteed that every subscription would be paying every month. With this, you are recycling that item, which generates no revenue at all.

Fair enough.. when the players get sick of spending gil, they might quit.. or they might start to pay...

Either way, its additional revenue coming into SE -- and potentially quite a bit if they get hooked.

[axemtitanium]

There will be new subscriptions, just not a guaranteed monthly payment towards the game devs. It really is a broken system, even if the items were un-tradable, it would still cause for financial instability as it is not guaranteed that every subscription would be paying every month. With this, you are recycling that item, which generates no revenue at all.

Actually, you pay for the PLEX item up-front, not when it's used. Thus, if there are 100,000 PLEX items on the market (bought at $10 each), Square has already made $1,000,000 even if that game time never gets used. Obviously they will get used eventually, but it makes no difference to SE if they're used or not. The item disappears after use so there's no way to "go back" on the purchase. And why would you pay gil to buy the item if not to use it or sell it? It's not doing you any good languishing in your inventory.