We need more ways to make gold in this game.

[Shiyo]

RMTs make business in situations like this where there is a significant lack of economic gil influx. When people can longer sustain their characters, they will either leave or resort to buying gil from the RMTs. If SE is able to implement a system with economic gil generation is easier to compensate for the gil sinks, RMTs will have a harder time making bank because gil is more accessible without them. There will be those that give in to temptation because they are either lazy, or just really really bad at managing money. However, RMTs will only get worse the worse the gil deficit gets.

The current model is a RMTs dream mmo. This game is currently doing everything it possibly can to encourage RMT.

Unless something is done about the economy soon RMT will be required to play the game.

The best part is it's so hard to make gil because they wanted to discourage RMT by making it hard to make gil. Yet, all they did was encourage RMT more and make more people want to buy gil and make it easier for RMT to make money off players.

[tymora]

RMTs make business in situations like this where there is a significant lack of economic gil influx.

Naive. RMT make business regardless of the gil input rates. The only difference is the units sold in. In games where money is easy to make, the units will be large, in millions, 10s of millions. Why? Because it is worthless from all the RMT exploitation of easy inputs. And there will always be those pitiful humans who pay for gil or pay for leveling (and get themselves hacked as a result).

In every game that RMT has destroyed, the end result is the same - Runaway inflation, caused by uncontrolled generation of in game currency, usually involving NPCing items or repeatable quests.

Hyper-inflation will never occur with the current system which I see as a good thing. As long as there is a small net increase in overall gil in the economy, which none of us has any idea of unless SE releases the figures, all should be good.
Bottom line is you can't stop RMT or their supporting lackeys. They are cockroaches or the bacterial slime that grows in the sewers.
It is impossible to. But if their impact on the economy is minimal (read inflation), then their presence can be ignored.

In a nutshell; Do you want 5 million gil items? Or do you want 5000 gil ones?

[Aketo]

Naive. RMT make business regardless of the gil input rates. The only difference is the units sold in. In games where money is easy to make, the units will be large, in millions, 10s of millions. Why? Because it is worthless from all the RMT exploitation of easy inputs. And there will always be those pitiful humans who pay for gil or pay for leveling (and get themselves hacked as a result).


Hyper-inflation will never occur with the current system which I see as a good thing. As long as there is a small net increase in overall gil in the economy, which none of us has any idea of unless SE releases the figures, all should be good.

When someone can't even afford to repair their gear after 20+ fates there is something seriously wrong, mind you I don't want hyper inflation but the current system is not one I would call a balanced economy at all.

[Lucroarna]

Im level 50 and have almost 600k from selling items. There's enough new players, and enough people doing quests that gold isn't going to disappear. Honestly, I think all of the points being made here are secretly just people being extraordinarily lazy, and asking for FFXIV to be a WoW clone.

[Doowie]

Im level 50 and have almost 600k from selling items. There's enough new players, and enough people doing quests that gold isn't going to disappear. Honestly, I think all of the points being made here are secretly just people being extraordinarily lazy, and asking for FFXIV to be a WoW clone.

Another one that misses the whole point of this thread

[Lucroarna]

Another one that misses the whole point of this thread

I understand the point of there not being enough gold in the game itself, and the AH will eventually destroy all the gil.

But you're WRONG. That's MY point.

What you're doing, is re-iterating one, shock - factor point to get a lot of people to somehow agree with you. This is how politicians steal money from government, and it's how you're getting people to blindly agree with you.

[Catharsis]

But you're WRONG. That's MY point.

Saying "You're WRONG" very loudly is a pretty unconvincing form of argument.

[Merix]

Im level 50 and have almost 600k from selling items. There's enough new players, and enough people doing quests that gold isn't going to disappear. Honestly, I think all of the points being made here are secretly just people being extraordinarily lazy, and asking for FFXIV to be a WoW clone.

Your signature is extraordinarily accurate.

[redisdrunk]

Im level 50 and have almost 600k from selling items. There's enough new players, and enough people doing quests that gold isn't going to disappear. Honestly, I think all of the points being made here are secretly just people being extraordinarily lazy, and asking for FFXIV to be a WoW clone.

That signature in conjunction with your post is so appropriate I actually found it a little amazing.

[Riviere]

Just posting something here to bash WoW, it took 8 years away from me and I hate it!

I can see that, no need to bring your hate here though.