Ok, so I've thought A LOT about this. And I truly believe SE likes, if not love gil sellers.
I was talking to someone who works at SE (she really does know her in RL) and she saying how they know about the tom's, and the jerry's, and the apples but wont do anything ahout them. And other people hate them cuz THEY always get the NM spawns, THEY ruin the economy.
Why would SE like gil sellers? easy, profit.
lets do a little math, shall we?
currently there is about 1.5 million people playing. On average I guess a person pays 15 dollars a month. (servise fee+multiple characters)
so each month SE gets around 22,500,000 million dollars a month. Just off of servise fees. of course that goes for running FFXI, but they are making a HUGE profit.
Why is this important? SE wont make money if don't play.
What does this have to do with it? The more stuff is the more people have to play to get what they want.
gil farmers are the reason why the items are gross amount of gil.
for this the normal player (us) has to play longer, play more just to get that one stupid item.
so with gil farmers around people have to play more, so pay each month, and SE gets their money and they are happy. I know I'm going to get bashed but face it, it's true. it really is.
Corperation = Profit over People.
I probaly left a ton out lol so ask questions, we can talk about it.
oh right, I know SE will do something about SE IF they openly admit to it, but it comes down to they most likly have MORE then enough evidence to take out tom's, the jerry's, and the apples...
Edited, Thu Feb 3 15:29:23 2005 by Rasdafunk