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There were numerous exploits that allowed lots of gold to leak into the economy after launch...whether or not the game will be profitable for rmt is something that will be decided six months down the road at the minimum. Believe it or not, there are still lots of people who pick up a bot key or two just because they like to play a game and want to automate some of the boring grind aspects rather than being solely concerned with making money. Not that I have anything against making money...whether ffxiv will be good for that or not is really not possible to determine this early. Just for reference, before the exploits were discovered gil was selling for $6.00 per 10k, which is a very nice price vs time ratio. If the game is popular (which it appears to be) and they plug the exploits there's no reason to assume that the current crap floating around the economy won't filter out as normal within 4-6 weeks and stabilize.