SE Banning players with large amounts of gil?

I think a lot more people involved are guilty than most seem to expect. Games have recorded upwards of 50% of their player base purchases gold in any given month, and some of those games don't even have regular gold spamming advertisements. I very much doubt Square Enix have just banned any account over XXX Gold while they investigate. It's far more likely that they've nailed down the gold sellers (which is not hard to do) and then slapped a temp ban on anyone with direct trade history with them.

Loads of people are buying gold and I would guess that at least half of the people screaming bloody murder, are just trying to play the victim after getting caught out.

I'm still confused as to why people would buy gil right now. There's not much to do with it unless you're just wanting to rush level your crafting classes by purchasing materials, quest items, and crafting gear. SE is hammering the gil sellers hard. Most of the time I don't see shouts, only /tells. Which are blacklisted and reported. I'm clearing out my blacklisted regularly of (Deleted).

Right now, I think SE is a stellar job on this. I figured they wouldn't ban people over the amount of gil they have, especially not an automated ban-software. I figured that people were reporting "over industrious" people... but now I wonder if they were actually buying gil because so many other rich folks have stepped forward with very large numbers and have not been banned.

In regards to the gill issue;

I personally have played and cleared every final fantasy title since (Nintendo 8 bit)"FF ONE", and just let me say that it has been a final fantasy tradition to have a trademarked style of play and currency system for the unique type of enjoyment this game offers.

One of the things in this game that helps keep ones interest is the hopeful expectation of working for grinding for and finally getting to see/equip and use a new piece of equipment in the field-"against that same monster that may have given you trouble three levels ago".

The employment of "rude" Capitalism in whats intended as an entertaining fantasy title is assanine,and I might add does ruin the atmoshphere intended for the game and thats exactly why the gil spamming messages brought out an irritation you couldn't quite put your finger on.

SE Has Never.. EVER knew how to deal in Customer relations or RMTs, they released hotfixes to fix the speed runs, but they haven't put a proper spam filter yet, which any mediocre programmer can achieve in 2 hours or less. this won't be fixed, its ffxi all over again, people are gonna buy gil, innocent people will get banned, gil sellers will run freely, because simply there are too many of them . SE cant do anything about it, and they wont even try (seriously)

reporting an RMT in game takes about 1 minute, in any decent mmo, you could right click the name in chat and report spam or bot. but not an SE mmo, nooooooooo thats too advanced

They have implemented a filter, but it's specific to RMTs. They talked about it in the TGS Live Letter.

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Originally Posted by HiirNoivl

They have implemented a filter, but it's specific to RMTs. They talked about it in the TGS Live Letter.

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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah very nice filter, /sh is getting spammed by gil sellers every .5 seconds, must be the same filter NASA uses to detect THE ALINES AND SPACE STUFF

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Originally Posted by Matthew_John

1,000,000 gil! How could somebody make that much money! People with over 500k should be banned!!!!!

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lol, its actually pretty easy to play the AH in this game.

Also, if you quested to 50, and didn't TP around everwhere you should easily have around 300k-350k alone

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Originally Posted by Matthew_John

1,000,000 gil! How could somebody make that much money! People with over 500k should be banned!!!!!

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YOU ARE SO CUTE!! LIKE A CHILD !! <33333333333333333333

MOMMY THIS KID HAS BETTER TOYS THAN ME!! PLEASE MURDER HIM!!!!!!!!

Lol, Any crafter with half a brain can make about 200k a day EASILY, if you dont have even HALF A BRAIN........ reread my post :D

SO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE <3

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Originally Posted by Atrious

lol, its actually pretty easy to play the AH in this game.

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Originally Posted by Eaves12

YOU ARE SO CUTE!! LIKE A CHILD !! <33333333333333333333

MOMMY THIS KID HAS BETTER TOYS THAN ME!! PLEASE MURDER HIM!!!!!!!!

Lol, Any crafter with half a brain can make about 200k a day EASILY, if you dont have even HALF A BRAIN........ reread my post :D

SO CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE <3

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You two should replace the batteries in your sarcasm detectors. They seem to be malfunctioning.