SE Banning players with large amounts of gil?

[Mithril]

120k in two weeks =/= 8+ million in a month. You only serve to prove the point.

Except for the fact you know, it was mostly from quests and those dry up somewhere roughly around 300k then I would have had a total of 300k and whatever pitiful amount I make off fates. Flawed.

[ogopogo]

Since the Japanese community manager seem much more active than the one for the English forum, I've done the one thing I can do for you guys: I tried to make a post in a related thread with my semi-broken Japanese and ask their community manager about the issues you are having. While it might not be much, I hope it can help you get a reply from SE sooner rather than later. Also, don't let the trolls trying to blame you for SE's misconduct get to you, that's the extend of the advice I can give. Peace out.

Also, do note that in SE's Community Manager's post, he specifically said that accounts are only suspended after thorough investigation and as far as they are concerned, no innocent players have been, or will ever be caught in the crossfire and he assured the Japanese players that if they play and make money legitimately there's nothing to worry about.

[Yshnal]

All this talk of sanctioning crafters and gathers make me afraid to invest time in this game. SE really bungled this re-release. I don't think I will be playing much anymore if they are taking 99% of what crafters/gathers earned legitimately.

If you never broke any rules, you should NEVER have negative actions taken against your account.


Real classy SE

Bold part added by myself to mark the real problem in this thread. Most of you don't even know the truth of it yet are willing to believe "all this talk". I don't know the truth either, but no one but those affected by it or those really close to them can know it for a fact. It's their call and their right to vote with their wallet if they were unfairly punished (and should do it if that's the case), but for the rest of us to jump to conclusions it just seems weird and out of place. It just sounds like mass hysteria.

In your real life do you do things too based on something that someone that you don't even know said?

[Gamemako]

120k in two weeks =/= 8+ million in a month. You only serve to prove the point.

Your ignorance is astounding.

I was the first 50 ARM on the server. Dinged 50 on 9/3. 50 ARM made me no gil whatsoever. Here's my indigent ass on that day:



I made 50 LTW on 9/14, two weeks after making 50 ARM. Unfortunately, I don't have a snapshot of total gil then (I keep most of my gil on my retainer so I'm not tempted to spend it), but it was still fairly low -- in the 300k range. However, since the 14th, despite the costs of gearing up and all, I have made over 3 million gil selling endgame crafting/gathering equipment (raptorskin belts, chokers, green crafting gear) and doing a few melds. This is my current gil:



And this is a shot of my transaction list, which is how I made all that gil:



This is despite slowing down considerably from my peak. I got tired of all the undercutting and pretty much only make gear for markets where no HQ item is available these days. Regardless, this is still 217,432 gil over two days. I'm clearly not selling items for huge amounts of gil. I'm selling items that any crafter in the storm can easily afford at standard market prices. If I had those two weeks back between the time I had 50 ARM and 50 LTW, I'd have enjoyed a market with one tenth the competition and would easily have made 10 million more. It has nothing at all to do with "selling to gil-buyers" because as I said, anyone and everyone who gets to 50 in a craft or DoL has plenty of gil to spend on these items.

[scarebearz]

Thanks Gamemako, for the well informed post.

Hopefully some of the others will see how some people made 8mil+ legit from crafting.

[LunaticWoda]

Feel bad for the crafters.. Kinda glad im broke ass ALC now lol

[Toddmounts69]

I have over 12 Million gil and i did it with my GSM but i wasnt touched. Hows that work. Im sure they looked at my log and notice thousands of sales on the market Dont get how "Innocent" people are getting thier gold removed.

[LunaticWoda]

Honestly a shameless bump.. Dunno why the other thread about the guy losing his gil has so many dman pages and why he just didnt post here! Need to keep this thread in the for front till SE communicates with us!

[Adamm4231]

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

500k isnt to bad. If i put more time into mining i could make that just selling bomb ash. Not to mention people buying high end mats for 50k+

[NataliaAma]

It's really sad when people who devote their time into crafting and making well thought out marketing decisions are some of the ones to suffer. I plan to do the same in some of my crafting classes and this truly hinders me from doing so. It's very easy to see logs and sales on a persons account to determine who is "botting"/"scamming" or whatever you want to call it. So I don't understand out this is even a problem to begin with.