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

[axemtitanium]

In the sense of: Buying gold is not okay. Except, buying gold is okay as long as Blizzard profits. Yes.


It doesn't stop RMT companies. It don't see how it would.

Let's say for the sake of clarity that I was an RMT company owner/manager.

Wouldn't silling gil become more desirable because now players can use the gil they buy to not only gear their character, but also now pay for their subscription? Also, if the in-game item were 100K Gil.. and I could reliably sell 100k for 5 dollars, I could just get my RMT team to purchase the in-game item with the excess gil they farmed.. and thus increase my profits because I no longer have to worry about subscriptions.

I understand the idea for getting more subscribers, I don't see how it does anything against RMT.
I don't think it matters; SE should just whack moles. If people want to consider this idea, they shouldn't consider it as an RMT counter-measure I think..

What? Why would you ever want to pay $ for gil just to buy an item that would otherwise cost $? In any sane world, the market price of legitimately bought PLEX would far outstrip the rate that gil-sellers would be selling at. For example, you buy a PLEX for $5 which can be sold for 100k on MW, there's no way gil-sellers can sell at any price higher than the same rate. In effect, the higher the gil-sellers drive their prices up under this system, the more they shoot themselves in the foot as people turn to PLEX over their business. There's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine/money engine.

Also, for the record, EVE developers also play whack-a-mole IN ADDITION to PLEX. See Operation Unholy Rage. No one is saying you can't do both.