Quote Originally Posted by Kiroh View Post
Ok, let me explain very clearly why this is a horrible idea.

1.) It does absolutely nothing to support the developers, as some people seem to believe. The amount of these used by players who purchase them is directly proportionate to the about of people who buy them to sell to the people who purchase them. No new revenue is generated for SE, it simply shifts the subscription fees from one player to another. Which leads me into...

2.) It allows for a F2P option in this game. Not only does this open the community up to every 12 year old with internet access, it also encourages (even more than now if humanly possible) greed and competition between players and exploitation of game resources. (If you think RMT are bad, wait until you have 500 other players undercutting everything you try to sell to pay for their subscription.)

3.) It does nothing to stop RMT, absolutely positively nothing. If they can't make money selling game currency and U/U drops are the best gear in the game, you think they'll simply throw up their hands and say "whelp, we can't sell currency anymore, time to leave" instead of, oh I don't know, SELLING THE U/U DROPS maybe? RMT can and will sell anything in any game that players put a value on. If SE removes the value from gil, they'll just switch to selling items and powerleveling. That you believe RMT will somehow magically go away, or even decrease in number, is naive to say the very least. RMT don't care about how they make money, they will find a way to make money.
Read the entire thread. No one here said RMT will go away. The only people here are those that pretend we don't already have an RMT problem, and those that are willing to deal with current RMT and don't want SE to legalize it so they can maintain some sort of "moral..something.." It does hurt RMT. Also, I know people who won't play every month and will only be able to play if they have the spare cash that month to play. I learned about this in Tera and this is what they do to continue playing. Guess what, they continue to play because someone else paid their sub. This isn't a lets get rid of all RMT. This is a hey lets screw RMT over while benefiting SE and some of the player base. Since I don't wan't to spend my RL on fake money or need to pay my sub with gil, I don't benefit. I'm going to make an ass out of myself and assume that most of the against fall in that same boat with me and just don't want to admit to it. I would hate to lose my friends for a month of playtime just because that month they're strapped for cash. I see a lot of truth bending here.