On the one hand the letter says:



And on the other it says:



So in short:

"We can't cope with the amount of complaints regarding people breaking the EULA, so were going to take a cut, which will of course free up lots of time to deal with complaints regarding people breaking the EULA."

I smell a rat. A greedy one. Particularly as they're doing this to an existing game and not one they're developing specificially for this purpose.

I just hope for the sake of existing EQII players that they don't force them into this option if they get too many people doing it on the new servers.

This is a mixed thing. Think of it as a comparrison to garage sales, and best buy.

At a garage sale Im selling you my crap for low cost becuse my profit margin is high no matter what I sell it to you.

At best bey they buy it and have a set price they have to sell it for, to pay for staff, and general upkeep and profit.

Why would people go to Ige when I can get stuff 100X cheaper legaly.

Its not a good thing... but its not a bad thing ina way

This actually would give Square a pretty viable option. Now if they have evidence that someone's a gilseller, they probably have to go thru pretty elaborate steps to cover their butt legally before they ban someone. With RMT enabled servers, they could change the ToS to say that they will move a person to one of these servers with heavy suspicion of gilselling. SO if a gilseller tries to move to one of the non-enabled servers, they would log on one day and find themselves on a new server where they have to compete with a slew of other gilsellers.

And in case you missed it, this would be a one time transfer. I'm sure the majority of the gilsellers would leap to the RMT enabled servers, and then we'd see very few of them ever again. And the economy on that server would be as wild as everyone thinks, since Sony could easily sell a slew of gil and items under temp accounts to stabilize the economy.

Like someone said earlier, a lot of money would disappear very fast on all of the servers. Basically every server would go through their own version of the great depression, but as prices stabilized, the gameplay overall would be much better, and probably cheaper gil-wise.

And for all of those going "OMFG....I QUIT!!! NOO!!", if you and your LS wind up on an enabled server, you all pick another one, and leave together. It's not a big deal...in fact, depending on how much time they give you to decide whether you want to leave your server or not, you could make a nice profit and take a significant amout of gil with you on your transfer.

A sharp, cold breeze from the east hits my face, though it may seem distant and undeserving of notice, it carries with it the destruction of our way of life...

Translation, if this comes to Vana'diel, WoW will get a lot more packed, assuming Blizzard doesn't adopt this first. I'm not afraid to say it now, I WILL leave FFXI for another game if SE adopts this, and I'm sure everyone who isn't extremely rich irl or in game for that matter will too, but as we all know, these companies care for nothing but profit and will do what they deam in the best interests of their stockholders. I know people who don't see this as a big deal yet, "It's only on two EQ2 servers"... for now. Just the fact that an idea like this came on to that the board room table makes me nervous, and that it was green lighted is horrifying. Sound off on any and all forums you can, make SE know that we are wholy and vehemently against this idea and will leave if it ever gets implemented.

If you want RMT then move to an RMT server.

If you dont want RMT then dont move to an RMT server.

If your server is marked for RMT and you dont want it then you transfer. The only people you will leave behind are those that want RMT which most people say they dont like anyways. Seriously what's the difference on whether RMT people move out of your server or if non-RMT people move out of your server.

The beauty of this whole thing is two-fold.

1. Those that do partake in RMT will NO LONGER BE AROUND TO ANNOY YOU. If one of them ever posts something in here or anywhere else about how 1337 they are then you can just remind them that they are playing a totally different game called FFXI LITE and to kindly STFU.

2. When those that want to partake in RMT move to another RMT server they will be taking a boatload of gil with them.

Seems like everybody complains about how screwed the economy is and always blames 2 things: gil buyers/sellers and inflation due to excess gil. If they make these RMT servers then those servers can have the 2 things nobody wants: gil buyers/sellers and mad excess of gil. Meanwhile the rest of the servers can gain back some pride.

Of course if the economy doesn't improve after this were to occur then alot of people would end up choking on the BS they talk every day.

Sorry, I meant to give 2 cents and it turned into 4.

OH *&%$

IGE will still have their gilsellers on every server on every game. It won't change a damn thing. All it'll do is make the non-gilsellers raise the prices due to greed and the gilsellers will watch and follow so both will make money while prices continue to inflate. Nice going SoE. I wonder how well you balance your checkbook and how much you lie about your stocks to get people to buy stock in Sony.

SE will NOT agree to this regardless of SoE's investment into SE. I think SE could actually tell Sony to go @#%^ themselves on this whole deal they're trying to do and still come out without them as an investor. Though lately I HAVE been wondering if there's any official information on how much of SE stock SoE actually owns.

I also forgot to mention if SoE does do this and SE is against it, maybe, JUST MAYBE... the gilsellers that we DO have will fock over to EQ2 and leave us the hell alone that or they'll recruit more people to work for their company. Who knows. This is really bad news and could be the end of a well respected company in my viewpoint.

When did Squaresoft start caring about money more then putting out a wonderfully detailed and beautiful game for gamers such as myself to buy and invest in them to continue doing so with my money. I really love you Squaresoft but please don't fail me now... please don't be a sellout. All my bands I use to like, all my actors I used to like... all sold themselves like whores. *sigh*

Edited, Tue Apr 19 23:39:30 2005

In Final Fantasy XI we have had problems with gil sellers. If this happens in this game then the gil sellers win and it is no longer a game, but instead a business! If this happens many players may consider quitting and finding an online game that is still just a game. I, personally, think it is wrong and would be one of those that quits.

Sounds like a purely business move to me. Instead of banning all these players doing illegal currency/item/account transfers why not make it legal? Think about it. Instead of losing what was it, hundreds of accounts banned for illegal activities, you broaden your customer base by inviting people to pay monthly fees to you, and still make profit for themselves by playing day and night to pay their own rent.

So now you not only have the purely legit players on your servers, but the 'easy way out' players who buy all their money/items online, and now a whole new set of people paying monthly fees on multiple accounts to corner their own items/currency that they can sell for real cash.

*GMs now no longer have to answer to petitions saying "I think Imanobviouscurrencyseller is selling currency." They can now focus on bugs/botters/hackers/whatever.

*The respective game no longer has to ban accounts. Pure and simple. More accounts = more money in their pockets.

*Here's the best one...THEY CONTROL THE EXCHANGES SO THEY GET A CUT!!! Beautiful!

Who knows if this is good or bad for MMO's. Nothing personal. It's just busniess.

o m f g .

IF THIS DISEASE EVER SPREADS TO F F X I. . .

[ B - O - Y - C - O - T - T ]

Shades>> I mean... wtf... sony? can you hear me? SONY?!

Sony>> *cough* I'm.. dieing... they replaced me... with another... *cough*

Shades>> Who is it?! WHY?!

Sony>> It's... this guy...

Shades>> O M G, NO!! this.. is it.. realy happening? The end of the world?!

-Shade

Although I doubt they ever would, if SE ever made it legal to buy and sell items for real money I guess it wouldn't be so bad if they made 2 or 3 servers devoted just to people that want to play that way, and let the rest of us that just play for fun and whatnot stay on the servers where we can earn the gil and items we have/want... Maybe that'll even help fix the economy on some of the servers with big gil buying/selling problems.

...NNNOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!
WHY? (cries)