Mabrook said:
As far as SE is concerned:
More time = Money.
If they sold gil/items they will not gain anything from it because they are cutting their own throats since they just lost profit of time and people will quit and/or get bored when they have everything they want in game.
Not to mention SE has been on RMT ever since '05 or '06 I believe when they started going crazy and banning everything, so if they became the RMT that would totally shift FFXI's players focus and the game will die within a couple of months.
I believe couple months before this game dies the only people left playing are going to be the elite elite, RMT, and gil buyers.
More time = Money.
If they sold gil/items they will not gain anything from it because they are cutting their own throats since they just lost profit of time and people will quit and/or get bored when they have everything they want in game.
Not to mention SE has been on RMT ever since '05 or '06 I believe when they started going crazy and banning everything, so if they became the RMT that would totally shift FFXI's players focus and the game will die within a couple of months.
I believe couple months before this game dies the only people left playing are going to be the elite elite, RMT, and gil buyers.
Hence finding the right balance in allowing casual players to get the minor boost and keep playing as they normally would as opposed to the typical stance in which players get fed up with everything permanently being out of reach because of their limited playing schedule.
This would encourage more casual players to play and for longer. This wouldn't really affect the high level elite players as they are pretty much the unofficial patriarchs of the player base despite being a statistic minority.
Also, this would allow SE's focus to be taken off RMT and catering to new content and pleasing the real player base instead of being spread thin to police the RMT which has turned away alot of time, attention, focus and money away which could be spent on making the real players happy with better customer service and more content that appeals to us.
