Quote Originally Posted by Hvinire View Post
Hello everyone,

Here's a slightly more in-depth follow-up regarding the shards and RMT activity.

We are not planning to address the RMT activity related to shards by making adjustments to game balance, instead we will be individually tracking RMT activity and handling them.

Right. And yet legitimate players must remain paranoid about making any money at all for fear of having all their gil taken and their accounts swept. A friend of mine whom I've been playing SE MMO's with for 12 years just had his account swept clean by SE because they THOUGHT he might have been engaging in RMT activity. I can say with 100% certainty that he would never engage in such behaviour and the continual persecution and punishment of honest players for simply playing the market and making smart economic decisions is only going to drive people away from the game.