Is buying gil legitimate

I'm in need of gil and see offers to buy them at associated web sites. Is this a legitimate thing to do?

You will only be cheating yourself.

No, it is not legitimate. Purchasing gil offered by 'Real Money Traders' (RMT or 'gilsellers') is actually against the Terms of Service you agreed to when you created your account, and thus, if SE discovers you have purchased said gil for real money, your account will not only be suspended, but completely deleted. RMT harms the legitimate economy in the game and ultimately ends up costing you as a player. So ignore the temptation to deal with the devil so to speak.

Besides, it's not that difficult to get gil nowadays legitimately via the Challenge Log, the Hunt and levequests, so why people are still buying illegal gil for cash is beyond me.

Nooooooooo

Don't do it or you will be banned forever.

Right from their policies page: http://support.na.square-enix.com/fa...=68216&id=5382

Real Money Trade (RMT)
Our Definition of RMT
RMT is defined as the selling and buying of virtual assets for real-world money. Virtual assets can include, but is not limited to:
•Accounts
•Characters
•In-game Currency (Gil)
•In-game Service
•In-game item


Items and GIL obtained illegally through 3rd party tools or RMT activities can affect the game’s economic stability, and can disrupt the game play balance. Some 3rd party programs contain viruses and spyware, which can be harmful to other players unbeknownst to the 3rd party program user. This can lead to a leak of a user’s personal data, character deletion, or other unfortunate circumstances. We have a zero tolerance policy for RMT.

In other words, noooopppppe.

Please do not, i get enough spam messages as do many others from RMT.
Just take up mining and or crafting and gil is rather easy to make.
Alumen and Electrum usually sell well

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

if SE discovers you have purchased said gil for real money, your account will not only be suspended, but completely deleted. RMT harms the legitimate economy in the game and ultimately ends up costing you as a player. So ignore the temptation to deal with the devil so to speak.

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I was under the impression that only the sellers were perma banned, the buyers merely suspended.

Don't buy gil! It will make you sad face when your account gets banned. You can make easy money crafting (low level items even sell for a premium), gathering (shards sell quickly so if you have a good movie to watch tada! Other items sell well too. :D) and spirit bonding (the material market is the fastest moving items besides shards on the market and you can make big money with them.)

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Originally Posted by Black91CRX

I was under the impression that only the sellers were perma banned, the buyers merely suspended.

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No the buyers also get banned, my friend got banned because he had a friend (they are not close anymore) log into his account buy gil then mail it to his character. My friend got banned his friend got ill-gotten gains. ;-;

Buying gil from one of those advertisers is not legitimate, and if you do buy and SE manages to track the transactions back to your account, they can and will ban you from the game. Not to mention what could happen if the gilsellers manage to get your password or personal info. There are easy enough ways to make gil, I have a decent amount right now just by having leveled a gatherer class and doing some low level crafting, and by farming around for drops that sell fairly well for a good price. Don't ever buy it from a third party. Those guys are operating against the game's terms of service, and they are not your friends, no matter how good they make their offers sound.

simple answer = easiest way to get banned.. gil buying in any game is forbidden