High-level crafters beware: You get suspended if you sell to players who bought gil

[jcw005]

It sounds like an automated ban on anyone with 10M+ gil. If that's true, the developer responsible should slap himself.

[rabbitzero]

What makes you (or the Reddit poster) think that they were suspended for selling to a player who bought gil?

It seems like the player was banned and he's just guessing as to the cause...

Let's also not discount the fact that he might just be out and out lying. We only have his word that's why he was banned. Might have been botting, or doing other things to get banned. Is there a chance he got mistakenly banned? Sure. It is more probable that he's trying to deflect blame though.

[Thotor]

It sounds like an automated ban on anyone with 10M+ gil. If that's true, the developer responsible should slap himself.

Clearly seems like it. This is unacceptable.

[ShinrinCole]

Let's also not discount the fact that he might just be out and out lying. We only have his word that's why he was banned. Might have been botting, or doing other things to get banned. Is there a chance he got mistakenly banned? Sure. It is more probable that he's trying to deflect blame though.

If you took the time and looked at the reddit thread, there are other people who are having the same problem, not just one person.

[Bunnyfufu]

Yeah that thread has already reached over 100 replies. I'm at work right and am curious if anyone from my FC was caught with the ban hammer.

[Sintram]

Yes, please ban anyone that has more money than me, no matter how they made it.

Just joking.

I knew this would come so I spent about 500 gil on auction house and did not sell anything at all. FF14's teams are obviously mostly automated, and with such comes customer cruelty. On the other hand, mmos face stiff competition these days, so it is super important to make them cheap as possible to run (again automation).

I wonder if they gonna start banning high level people next, because I am trying to level up all classes. Anyone from SE willing to disclose if that is the next step in the banning?

[Namasu]

Hi guys, I'm posting on behalf of my crafter friend on Adamantoise. Her name is Fiora Aeterna. We both made a sizeable profit from crafting HQ 2 star items and selling them on the market board. Yes we do know that the items are expensive but that's cause the philosophy items itself are hard to come by (60k~ on our server) and that very few people would be willing to buy these items, but that does not mean that we are part of the RMT transactions at all. In my case, I haven't gotten any suspension email or warning, but Fiora wasn't so lucky.

In my belief here's what happened that flagged her account. She monopolized the HQ mailbreaker item for quite a while. There was two sale that seem to have involved a gil seller, but it's not concrete proof at all that Fiora was dealing with RMT. It could have just been a gil seller buying a high level item and trade it to his client for real cash. If SE is so quick to hand out the ban hammer without full investigation then they should have just put a cap on gil or market price to begin with.

In her defense, she always sell on the auction house and you can't really help who buy what on it.

[Zumi]

Sounds like an auto ban system if you have more then 10m, I been selling relic weapons but only made 4m so far. I am not banned or anything.

[Ephany]

In her defense, she always sell on the auction house and you can't really help who buy what on it.

Sorry your friend got banned.
But you're totally right.

Everything placed on the market has a chance of being bought by a RMT. We have no control over who buys our items.

This is just going to make me avoid both crafting and spending any gil at all other than repairs.

[Gray_Spy]

At first I was skeptical but then you read the reddit thread and there's like 5-10 other people reporting the same thing. All banned for selling really rare stuff on markets and seemingly having 10+m gil. Could SE really be that stupid? .... don't answer that.

I'm thinking the same, but benefit of the doubt. I want to watch out for some of our FC mates. I know a few in our FC making good money.