I'm with Arch. The mechanics of it make sense, a game with that high of a level cap would obviously allow newbies to boost xp, a badly designed game would allow them to be tradable.

It's the fact that they literally have them doing the oliver twist sweatshop cliché that makes it terrible. They mentioned earlier that the sister sews all day, so her tailoring sub-class is probably leveling as quickly as Serara's maid skills. The problem is that so long as they're below Level 30, they just get a potion once per day. If they have all these newbies working at day with production sub-classes, shouldn't they be showing the fruits of their labor to use the sweatshop theme? When they showed them handing over the potions a couple episode ago, before we knew what they were, I figured they were forcing them to brew them with a job skill.

There's no need for the whole sweatshop BS when they could accomplish the same simply having the newbies lie around all day bored out of their minds, or hell, locked up in cages.

Furthermore...why are they all kids? Newbies would be adult size/age too.

The second problem I had with this episode is Maryell getting all weepy when he revealed he had created his own guild. Talk about misplaced emotional impact. Maybe there is some super serious trauma that she knows about that the audience doesn't, but it just seemed silly.