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

[Shougun]

I think he misspoke. No one's buying power will change at all because no new currency will be introduced to circulation. The consumer price index (definition) will stay the same. When one person uses real money to purchase a PLEX and then sells it on the market wards, he is gaining money from another person who used to own that money. When he spends it on other items on the markets, he disseminates this money to the people who were selling those items. No money is created during this process, hence, no inflation or devaluing of currency. Besides, anything that can be purchased from the wards will be second-rate anyway since Yoshi-P has already stated that the best-in-slot gear will all be U/U drops from dungeons/bosses/whatever. At absolute worst, you'll find some PLEX buyers running around in double-meld gear while the real endgame players have full sets of Darklight or whatever is the best equipment in 2.0.

There is a shift in gil. The ability to bring in real money to shift gil changes your buying power.

100000000000 gil is worth more then 1 gil.

If I can use 10$ to get 100000 gil, I have more buying power then someone who will not use 10$.

[Abriael]

There is a shift in gil. The ability to bring in real money to shift gil changes your buying power.

And since the one that gave you the gil had his buying power reduced at the same time, the two instances cancel each other. No inflation is generated.

If I can use 10$ to get 100000 gil, I have more buying power then someone who will not use 10$.

Not necessarily, because that someone can simply get 100000 gil normally.

[Shougun]

And since the one that gave you the gil had his buying power reduced at the same time, the two instances cancel each other. No inflation is generated.

Oh the inflation would only happen because people would have a new reason to farm. Not because of switching of hands. That is to say as long as the amount of months sold is exactly the amount of game time being used, unlike the possibility of collecting 6 years of game time within a few months and selling it.

Not necessarily, because that someone can simply get 100000 gil normally.

No you are missing the point ( I think ) - the person who used real money got your 10 gil (smaller number, easier to work with ). BUT that person can also earn the 10 gil like you did normally. So in effect they have 20 gil.

Saying we have two people who play the same amount of time and work the same hours, only one is willing to spend his money. He will have more money then the person who isnt willing to. Therefore a p2w system has been accepted.