This is going to come off more derisive than I mean it. I apologize in advance.
First, I graciously accept money from any player in exchange for fictitious resources for two reasons: their money is used to improve the game far more than the gs I give them hurts it, and I am the one responsible for paying the bills and growing/improving my chapter.
Second, have the people here advocating to do away with the current system ever had this responsibilty?That is, have you ever owned a chapter and been the one writing the checks?
I'm not asking that in order to call you out or anything. Quite the contrary, when I first became a player, and then a staff member, I had a bunch of awesome ideas for improving the game that suffered the slightly unfortunate fate of being completely divorced from reality (eg. You totally should have to be short to play a dwarf!). And oh the game I would have had!!!!...in my mind, sans porta-potties, since I'd have no money to rent them.
We have a $2000 shower system because a player cut me a check for gobbies. He doesn't even, nor has he ever paid-no-play, any chapter...ever.
The current system works. We are getting real things (players that don't stink) for fake things. I have several other players in my db who have way more gs than the dude who cut me a check, and the have acquired these through writing, making packets, washing clothes, donating phys reps. This is not a battle between the haves and the have-nots. It's more so between the doers and the do nots.
And this is coming from a socialist, bleeding heart social worker who thinks Scott Kondrik, in particular should be taxed extra so that the federal govt can send my game, all games, a larger tax refund!