As Fynlar said, RMT is not nearly a problem as human greed, or teenage inferiority. By that I mean, RMT wont bother you or make you nearly as mad as a loser in real life who has to validate how great they are in this game. Yes every site obviously had a gil sale for christmas, yes half the server apparently bought gil, cuz there is no reason those ingots, claws, cloths, etc. should have jumped to those prices. What you have to look at is the drastic changes in prices, or the comparison to similar items. Example of RMT vs. Greed:
RMT camping the O-Kote will never affect me, cuz I dont want the damned thing. I am not one of those people that HAS to have super millions of dollars, and I hardly, if ever go after an item I dont need. One good thing about me, and many others, is we can make most of the things we need(oils, potions, stuff like that).
Greed/Status. This is where people hate me. Unless there is some super secret hidden stat on things, paying 5 mil for a HQ, as opposed to around 200k for the NQ with the exact same stats(minus usually 1 on certain stat) is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Typically, people that you see with multi millions of dollars of gear(that dont host KSNM every day, cus this is making 73+ blms amongst the richest in game), if they are not gilbuyers, are trotting around in their "**** you gear." They were picked on, made fun of, probable virgins, etc. and this is how they get revenge on society. They get all this gear and walk around hopping you will check them and see how great they are.
Am I defending RMT? Hell no. Do I hate it? Sure, but what can be done about it? It's all perspective in my eyes, and some things we are all guilty of. I will elaborate. In some way, everyone who created a mule just for storage space is a gil buyer. Why? Free stuff. You can pat 1 dollar for another character, then within a few days get millions of dollars from it. And people do it too, they make a mule, get its fame up, and do scroll quests. So in a way, thats 1 dollar, a little bit of work, and millions of dollars. Granted it isnt the same as buying millions of gil for a set price, but in a sense its the same thing. Dont believe me? Look at some of the Ninja Ichi scrolls and see same names selling them, you'll get it then.
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Fyn, You're just looking for an arguement in any thread you can get it in,
Oh come on, you didnt just now notice that did ya? I think Fyn likes to rip apart silly little one sided posts, which, I am sorry for saying, pitching high holy hell over RMT and not jerkoff people is one sided.
Last note, this is a losing battle, if you havent noticed. This game, can reflect you in life. By that I mean:
RMT, if you pay real life money(be it yours or moms) for Monopoly money(fake money) then you are a sad, stupid *** who has no real sense of the value of money. That or you come from lots of money and you have more money than brains. Anyone who passes buying another game for 50$, just so they can buy a few million gil should be raped with a floor lamp. You kinda need to cool off on gil selling, and worry more about those buying it. They are far more annoying.
Greed/Inferiority, Rank 10 in all nations, Maats Cap, 100/100/60 the others in crafting/fishing, MULES with the same stats, more gil than you will ever need, let me tell you something. You are not impressive. You're the coolest dork jockeying at EB, sure, but initially, when someone sees you, they go "Wow, that guy/girl is stacked." The more they see you, the less impressive you are, people start to wonder, "Geez what kind of loser does nothing but play this?"