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Barter doesn't add gil it merely shifts gil around while SE takes its 5% cut on both ends. But you're right, there is no problem with gil. Raids haven't had to be called already because groups ran out of repair money and stuff, they're just scrubs who didn't sell their stuff to crafters the way they should have. Everything is fine because, well because you say so, whoever you are.

Thanks for clearing that up. The longest and most viewed thread on the SE forum has no merit because you say it doesn't. And why are you being so selfish, since there isn't a problem and you have all the answers, why don't you chime in on that 66 page thread with your advice and see what they have to say?

Out of the two dozen gil seller accounts I've blacklisted in the last two weeks, only one had a keyboard smash name, and one other was simply called "Bro Sale." (Bet that dude thought he was clever.) The volume of shouts has increased greatly since character creation was unlocked across most servers, but I still had to blist quite a few while the servers were completely locked. Even SE had warned folks that there are a lot of compromised accounts out there right now.

A good friend of mine was hacked in FFXI in the middle of tanking an HNM. (Gulool Ja Ja.) He hadn't bought gil, but he had visited a third party program website that turned out to have been compromised by RMT on the back end. Took him about six weeks to get his account back. The RMT stripped his account of nearly twenty million gil and as much in items such as ancient currency. You can bet that was promptly resold.

You're right, it's a terrible business model. RMT is a terrible business in general. Gold farmers in China have worse working conditions than the poor laborers at Foxconn, often working 12 hour shifts and living in dorms that have ten guys sleeping on couches or cots. The "farmers" left their families in rural China in the hopes of making their fortune in the city, and while playing video games for 12 hours a day sounds like a great thing, making the equivalent of fifty cents an hour to do it does not.

How quickly we forget the lessons we learned last week.

So on our last episode of FFXIV:ARR drama, people were losing their collective **** over 1017. Even though the game had literally just launched days before and SE was very clear about how and when they were going to fix the issue, it was unacceptable. The sky was falling. We had 436743976983476983 threads about the topic where people put on the full display of emotional retardation over a video game.

This week? Sky is falling again. Gilsellers, cheaters, not enough gil to raid, chat logs clogged with spam etc. SE needs to fix these problems RIGHT NOW or the game is finished I tell you!! And we're 100 posts in to a thread where we're discussing the purchase of video game currency with the same fervor usually reserved for human rights issues, religion, or politics.

Take a step back for 15 seconds and think about this. Yoshi and his team just rescued a game (and indeed a whole franchise) from the worst public relations disaster in the history of MMO's. Despite practically the entire gaming community swearing off the game (and SE for that matter) just a few short years ago, they currently have BY FAR the hottest product on the market.

They had a shaky launch due to server instability and everyone threatened to boycott again. Mutiny was in the air! Yoshi and his team calmly addressed the matter and fixed it exactly how and when they said they would fix it. And the community was generally pretty satisfied with how things were handled.

Now, the next big crisis is the gilseller threat. Newsflash people: THE GAME JUST LAUNCHED. They can't fix every problem simultaneously in a single weekend.

Two simple facts:
1) There will always be gilsellers because there will always be people willing to buy gil. It's one of the most basic economic principles in existence. If there is demand, there will be supply.
2) As was previously mentioned, the presence of gilsellers in the virtual economy has yet to destroy said MMO economy. Does it inflate the economy? Sure. Will it destroy the economy? Not at all. This game was designed in such a way as to avoid the economic issues that we saw in FFXI (which is still chugging along regardless as proof to point #2).

My prediction here is that the selling of gil actually has a minimal impact on the XIV economy as a whole due to the fact that casual gameplay doesn't require all that much gil. Many people cruise along through the content just fine without even interacting with the market boards. Also, before you start with the "gil needed to repair gear in order to spam endgame dungeons repeatedly" etc etc, realize THAT IS NOT CASUAL GAMEPLAY. There's nothing wrong with it, but it's not casual. The majority of the game's population just isn't that far along yet.

The game just launched. Literally. It's WEEKS old. Why don't you guys settle down, stop with the "sky is falling" melodrama and recognize that the game is in capable hands. They will successfully address these issues in the coming weeks just like they have successfully addressed every issue that's come up since Yoshi rescued this game from the ******* a few years back. They will address this too. They've already acknowledged it. The angst isn't necessary.

So I guess I am just out of the norm then, I have 9 total blacklisted names for spamming, all of which and the keyboard smashers.......

Hey gee look they are lowering dark matter and repair costs Wednesday what an amazing coincidence.

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I just blacklist them and move on, got it down to where it takes no time at all. It would be nice if they had it like SWTOR does, does left click on the name and hit blacklist. Keeps things nice and simple. Gil sellers and RMT's will always be an issue to some degree, just give us the tools to weed them out of our chat logs simple and fast then you are good to go.

Let the people who are foolish enough to use their services do so and chance SE banning their account or even worse, have someone highjack their account.

Doesn't sound so horrible. I had fun in the 90s.

I guess I just dont take my video games so seriously as to feel like I have to spend more real money than I have to on it. The day I feel like I have to purchase fake money with real money just to enjoy the game is the day I put it down and move on to something else.

That's exactly how I saw it now...

You wouldn't be over-reacting by a slight margin would you?

And?

Come on kids play nicely - Momma wants to nap!