I am starting to think SE has some tricks up their sleeve.

SE decided to limit the amount of gil possible to send trough the deliverybox system.
In my opinion this kinda things are one of the best ways to take a stand against RMT.
The biggest problem with that is to balance it so that it doesnt affect to many honest players.

But its simple really. The more it costs the RMT businesses to do business inside a game. The quicker they will move on. And time is money. The more time it takes for people to get their gil. The bigger is the chance they will no buy gil. I mean if you go online to buy something. Where do you purchase it ? I bet you go to the place that can send you the stuff quickest. Its the same way with gilbuyers. The more they have to do to get their gil. Less and less will buy it.

I think that SE have something else on its way. With the release of the expansion on its way. I think that they will atleast have one more thing up their sleeve. And only time will tell.

Until next time. Enjoy your gaming. And dont eat the yellow snow.


Damiende

Good Job Square Enix

Congratulations on a job well done. I have to say it brought a smile to my face when I saw the news that SE were taking countermeasures against rmt. I am sure that you will continue to keep up the preasure on certain companies.


Damiende

My take on the state of the FFXI economy.

Who do I believe has created those high prices. The players themself has created them. And the biggest factor is those players greed. I believe that sometime soon the economy on some servers are going to crash. Because I think that more and more people are going to stop paying those higher prices. Either because they want to cash in themself, by going into business. Or try farming more and more of their own crafting needs for example. Because I belive that most players doesnt use their own power to control prices. Especially in a game where people pay hefty AH fees. Getting items sent in return sucks. And if this started to happen more often. I belive that those trying to rise the prices would think tvice about doing it. If this happened on a large enough scale. The prices would drop all over as a result of less gil beeing in circulation.

Now I dont have a problem with people making a profit, but I dont think its healthy for the economy to just rise and rise. I think that players overall needs to sit down and think for a while about what they are doing.

If you want to make a change. I have a few suggestions.
One thing you can do is try and gather some crafters. And agree not to jack up the prices when you sell stuff. You might even try and lower the prices just a little bit. Try not to be to dependent on buying your crafting items. I believe that if most crafters would farm at least half their crafting needs. The economy would change.

Remember this. If you dont like the high prices. Dont pay them. Its as simple as that. Nothing bad is going to happen to you if you farm your stuff or wait until there is a bigger supply on the AH. Remember the buyers have alot of power, use it.


Damiende