Quote Originally Posted by Yoko_Kurama View Post
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Pretty much, yeah LOL. And that's kinda what they're doing now anyway. Evident not just be our own personal experiences, but even confirmed by the CMs on the boards. There is also the possibility that people could lock themselves out the the /shout chat unintentionally. There can be some meaningful, or at the very least humorous, conversations going on in /shout. No reason to discourage it. Although, yes, I realize that same argument could be used for the forums.

[tangent] The difference though is that the forums is a place you go to to read or chat... when you're on the game however, you're not limited to just that lol. As a result, forums kinda have a way of forcing people to pay attention to the bad, without much of a way around it. [/endtangent]

But the problem isn't really the advertising increasing or whatnot, it's the domination/manipulation of endgame content by RMT. It's happened before in other games (particularly FFXI), and REQUIRES intervening by the devs, should it ever get to that point.