Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
Again with that improper definition of pay to win, lol.



And it's gonna be much less. RMT will get the crumbs. A lot better than them getting the whole pie.
"Pay to win" Isn't a definite term, means different things to different people.

But more on to the real point, if RMT were getting "Crumbs" they would move on to other games it's obvious they are still making good money PLEX or not. Like I said just because the price per sale has gone down, doesn't mean the profits aren't high.

It's like telling me Wallmart is going bankrupt because they sell candy bars for $1.00 less than the mom-pop store across the street. RMT have amazingly low overhead and if people can get something cheaper a few scary stories of RMT hackings isn't going to deter them.

If anything PLEX does little to deter RMT activity, if anything in EVE it's the large time investment you can't buy with game cash/real cash (Aside from purchasing a account, but that's a entirely different affair)

Alot of other MMOs don't have people shaking in their boots at the thought of loosing the 12 hours they put into the max level character they are now twinking with ill-goten gains. Other than driving RMT to more and more desperate actions (Hacking, and whatnot) I don't really see how PLEX is crushing the RMT's market, if anything it's making them more efficient.

Competition breeds efficiency, what was a slack jawed group of people have become rather large operations due to the requirements of making a proper turnover in cash, like I said alot of these places are now run like a actual business. There is no real solution to RMT, all you can do is make it as inconvient, or unsavory to purchase from these guys as possible. Hell if anything trying to directly attack RMT has often hurt normal people in the cross fire.

Good example: FFXIV

We currently have a massive ammount of server side checks just to make sure we aren't cheating the game, alot of the "Lag" we experience is due to bad RMT countermeasures.