Quote Originally Posted by atomicdeath View Post
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.