If the FV ruleset includes the disgusting abomination that is "free trade," I wouldn't touch the server with a ten-foot pole.
Were that to happen, prepare for the most toxic, greedy, cannibalistic server environment ever known to man.
Remember all those times you got a decent item for cheap on a raid? Forget about that ever happening again. Under the free trade ruleset, any piece of raid loot is incredibly valuable because it can be sold in EC. Think of every item the way you do Boots of the Storm and Mithril Helmet. It will no longer be possible to ever get anything for less than top greed-bid prices, so all raiders will be paying prime DKP for anything and everything, meaning nobody gets more than one thing per month or thereabouts. A third of all raiders will raid just for the sake of lining their pockets in EC.
And nothing outside of raids is worth anything whatsoever because the market is suddenly inundated with raid loot. Not in a raid guild? Nothing you camp is worth shit. And prepare for a tidal wave of RMT drama as the stakes and potential rewards from RMT, ninja-looting, scamming, and otherwise fucking people over have just increased fifty-fold. Previously, there was kind of a limit to the value of money. Eventually you'd just get to the point where there was no more shit to buy. That will no longer be the case.
Looting a big item will feel like nothing. Tons of people will have simply bought it in EC, so owning it doesn't mean anything. There's no prestige to gear anymore as it ceases to be a sign of content you've conquered and just becomes a sign of your net worth. Someone with five million plat will be able to buy a full suit of BIS gear. And there will be people who do so.
And they will have to do some shady-ass shit to get that five million plat. It will tear guilds apart.
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