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Eh, the $18 wall is a mixed bag. Â Yes, there was(/is/will be?) an additional barrier of entry to Balmung. Â Yes for a number of people I know it sucked and required re-prioritization to get past it. Â (Sometimes even taking a month or so off of the game to allocate that subscription money towards the transfer fee.)
It's also one of the reasons I actually broke down and moved to Balmung. Â I can actually turn tells on in Balmung where as on a few other servers (my old home of Cactaur being one) the gil seller spam started about about 30 seconds logged in time and drowned out any meaningful use of the system (unless you broke TOS and installed something to hook into the chat stream and apply a reg-ex spam filter. Â Got banned for that one once)
There is effort and cost to create anonymous harassment alts that just vanish after their job is done here. There's a sense of permanence to reputation instead of the 'throw away alt' problem that many other servers / games have.
So yeah, it's an interesting topic. Â Yes it puts a barrier of 'economic privilege' to the server, but it also prevents a lot of abuse. Â
Granted if SE would actually get off it's backside and do something about the problems (implement an in game spam filter like Blizzard did for instance) half of this would be a moot point.
It's also one of the reasons I actually broke down and moved to Balmung. Â I can actually turn tells on in Balmung where as on a few other servers (my old home of Cactaur being one) the gil seller spam started about about 30 seconds logged in time and drowned out any meaningful use of the system (unless you broke TOS and installed something to hook into the chat stream and apply a reg-ex spam filter. Â Got banned for that one once)
There is effort and cost to create anonymous harassment alts that just vanish after their job is done here. There's a sense of permanence to reputation instead of the 'throw away alt' problem that many other servers / games have.
So yeah, it's an interesting topic. Â Yes it puts a barrier of 'economic privilege' to the server, but it also prevents a lot of abuse. Â
Granted if SE would actually get off it's backside and do something about the problems (implement an in game spam filter like Blizzard did for instance) half of this would be a moot point.