SE is suspect

[Reslin]

Not trying to be an apologist but a friend of mine was a victim of this. He went to reddit, 4chan, and other avenues saying he was wrongly banned. Thing is I know him personally and know for a fact he DOES deserve his ban. No I'm not calling you or anyone else a liar but.. I have trouble trusting people who get caught for something even when they swear they were innocent.

[scarebearz]

Your right not to believe every random person on the internet.

But some of us have been wrongfully suspended and will be unsuspended at some point.... but how long will the ones who made their gil legitimately have to wait?

I'm sure there was a better way to go about tackling the RMT issues than this...

[Leon2532]

Wait, I'm confused. Why would they want to ban people who may continue paying money?

Someone at SE thought that players that have over a certain amount of gil can't be legitimate players? Or maybe their RMTPWNER ran amok?

[Conradus]

Seeing is how they seem to be banning players with large amounts of gil. Legacy players probably have the most. They were probably playing government and thinking "how can we take their gil most effectively".

Well to me i think its a little more than a coincidence that they start banning after they take money for subscriptions.

So they get your gil, money and reduce population all in one sinister move.

Why in God's name would the people who can create gil at any time, any where, in any amount, care about taking other people's gil?

[Skivvy]

Not saying everyone who has been banned deserved it (maybe they did, maybe they didn't..who knows!), but people do have a tendency to lie when they get caught and punished for misdoings.

Fun story. A coworker of mine got fired for stealing a good chunk of money from the company. When she was leaving, she told everyone that she was let go due to a lack of work. A few of her office friends were pissed at the manager until the real story came out.

[Steeled]

I don't think OP meant "take their gil" as in "for ourselves".

I think he meant, "How can they take the most gil out of the economy".

There's no conspiracy here, but I think that's what he's getting at.

[atomicdeath]

Why in God's name would the people who can create gil at any time, any where, in any amount, care about taking other people's gil?

Just speculating at this time, but, i believe they want to control the economy and have everyone operate at a lower level of gil. Having legacy players around that have a bunch of gil left over from their 1st attempt kinda puts a fly in the ointment to their grand strategy. Why should rich people exist in their world?

[atomicdeath]

Fun story. A coworker of mine got fired for stealing a good chunk of money from the company. When she was leaving, she told everyone that she was let go due to a lack of work. A few of her office friends were pissed at the manager until the real story came out.

Was your friend telling the truth or the "office manager" ?

[Leon2532]

Just speculating at this time, but, i believe they want to control the economy and have everyone operate at a lower level of gil. Having legacy players around that have a bunch of gil left over from their 1st attempt kinda puts a fly in the ointment to their grand strategy. Why should rich people exist in their world?

You are giving SE too much credit. The most likely scenario is that SE did run a character search that had the wrong criteria for picking up RMT characters, and banned everyone the search returned without doing a manual double check on the search result.

[Reika]

Why in God's name would the people who can create gil at any time, any where, in any amount, care about taking other people's gil?

I think SE wants to kill off as much gil as they can before housing, especially the gil obtained by illegitimate means, even if it was legitimately selling something on the markets to someone who got gil illegitimately.