If you read the update detail when they booted the accounts, they said that SE might consider including this sort of thing in future games.

This if implemented well could be a very good thing and solve many of our current problems in one blow, implemented badly it would ruin the game. For example if you can go up to the AH and buy stuff with straight dollars then the economy will sink and inflation would skyrocket since you’re adding gil to the economy by purchasing with dollars.

But if there was a type of Central Bank, where gil transactions could be regulated, even taxed (in gil), where people who wanted to sell gil would auction their own gil at a price they set. This would create a stock market for gil, where people could buy and sell large and small denominations. The buyer’s tax would be small but add another gil sink to the economy.

It would also make external gil selling and buying a violation of the TOS making it a punishable offence. For the professionals (botter, NM campers) it means that they’ll essentially have to register with SE, and would be subject to monitoring forcing them to behave. Much like how large companies are under the eye of the SEC.

For the casual gil seller (high level crafter, HNMLS members) it would give a legitimate outlet and allow them to profit from all the time they invested in the game at the same time regulating their activities.

As for the largest threat people who are leaving the game (this is a big problem) it would allow them to “cash out” their characters reducing the number of high-level super noobs while at the same time getting something out of the game.

Yeah real smart.... this sucks... after this happens everything will change and I mean everything-> NM camping how many new players are out there wearing aketons collecting crystals... I bet you if this is put into affect Fire Crystals go so low again.... I can beleive they do this.

i can picture this now.

me, looking at the AH for that item i always wanted and finally mananged to get enough gil to buy.
checks the AH for 1 wk and no one sells. checks the station exchange and ... u know the rest.

Of course if this is ever implemented on FFXI, we're never going to get rid of all the Gilsellers on all of the servers. No matter how hard you try, one of them is always going to beat you to that Leaping Lizzy or Valkurm Emperor spawn, regardless of what kind of server you're on. From a player point of view, it may be as good as when the fishing update was put into place - it's been great to see a distinct lack of Blue Tunics in Windy, that's for sure.

I am hoping that the vast majority of Gilsellers will transfer to these new "Exchanged Enabled" servers - and hopefully leave the rest of us who treat FFXI as a game alone. I doubt that'll ever happen though, seeing as there will always be players who "have it rough" due to inflation, and the temptation of RMTing even on Legit servers would be too much to bear.

We'll have to see what happens...I'm trying to keep a clear head about it, really.

I can't find anything about this on any other game site so far...?

"If there are new servers made all the gilsellers/cheaters will move to the new server." What is wrong with that statement, everything. The people who have 40mil won't MOVE, the gilsellers won't MOVE. IGE is already operating illegally. And this will turn SE into a god damn Salem Witch Hunt.

This WILL NOT SOLVE the ******* problem can't you people read beyond the lines and think about it for a second. WHY would they go to a new server? All the cheaters will NOT move they'll continue to inflate prices on normal servers. This whole RMT Server serves no real purpose but to give SoE some publicity. ANd look it's bad publicity.

This whole new feature will be gone in a month; or the games will be gone in a month it's really SoE's choice. Heh sides player's can now control prices off stuff they sell on an Auction in real life cash.

Emperor's Hairpin 1.2mil
Leapong Boots 1.0 mil
Peacock Charm WTF?! 150.00??

And yes I can see the lawsuits now^^ But unfortuntaly if you read the letter SoE still OWNS your items, your character, and currency. Sueing them is not even remotely possible. They covered their ***. Why don't you bastards DDOS Sony and leave SE alone.

Squaresoft got you through your teenager years when your life was depressing and boring and all you felt like doing was immersing yourself in an epic battle to save the World. Boycott SoE. ENough said.

what would happen is the good items would not be put on AH leaving to us to spend real money to get them ><....

I dont see why the sellers would go and move away since there company will still sell on there own on the "illigal" way and still send the gil after the real cash is received, no?

If this happens I'm going to be ******* pissed. Let Sony destroy their games, I don't care.

SE better have enough sense to AVOID THIS COURSE OF ACTION AT ALL COSTS.

Little late for an April Fools joke isn't it?

For the love of Altana, if this happens my online gaming experience will return to .hack//.

For the love of all that is good and holy dont let SoE invade SE totally.

I played EqoA (ps2 version of EQ) and SoE sucks total a$$. The quests in EQoA weren't even close to finished. They had nerfdates, yes nerfdates. It's like and update but they take stuff away instead of add things. That happened every week if not everyday. I swear there wasn't one day that the servers weren't down or they weren't nerfing something.

Then came the expansion. OMFG the expansion. For the first 2-3 months it was total hell.If you used a coachman sometimes your screen would black out and your game would freeze. That also happened if you stepped in some spots.

Keep SoE out of FFXI.

FFXI demise is eminant if SoE is able to run it.

I strongly feel that Sony has surpassed the line between business and morals with this new charade. By giving people such an easy way to make money, they are helping bring a brand new generation of video game addiction into people's homes. It will ruin lives by promoting people to play games all night and day, in order to make money. This is like gambling, with the risk taken away, creating such a huge will to never want to stop playing, that you will eventually destroy yourself making money. There are few cases like this happening with current games, but with the involvement of real money in this matter, these cases will explode in numbers. Congratulations Sony, you sold your soul for even more money.

lmfao FFXI LITE
Guess they weren't good enough to cut it on the real servers that required actual effort and *gasp* work to make a great character.

Honestly, in my opinion, there would be more than one level 75 Rookie who didn't know what a skillchain was. Or even worse yet, too broke to afford a chocobo or airship ride......
In my opinion if they are going to do it, PLEASE OH PLEASE create new servers so the pricks can ruin their own server rather than everyone elses. If they implemented this across all servers it would effectively destroy a great game.

I can imagine some random level 75 Dark Knight thinking he's the s*** cause he's level 75 char....thinkin he's badass. Puh-lease.

Or even worse yet, being called a noobie cause your gear is worth less than xx million gil/yyy bucks.

Would be even better if they gave an automatic boot to the trading servers and clear even more gilsellers from the clean servers where people earned their stuff.

If they made my server a trading server, I'd move in a heartbeat. The price would be high, many valued friendships down the drain due to SE's lack of caring about the real gamers. That would be a high price to pay. Maybe even too high.

If they made this for all servers.... well.... one less FFXI player here. I shouldn't have to give a damn about SE if they don't give a damn about the players. I wouldn't even sell my chars..... the thought of some slack jawed rookie using my ranger would destroy my heart.

He didn't put in the time, I did, 85+ days of it.

No amount of money can replace the time I spent with my character.

A saying from another game I played for 4 years that allowed item/gold trading for cash.

"When I die, my character dies with me"

In my opinion, if they didn't earn it, they don't deserve it.