Why is there so much RMT spam?

[Zaiken]

SE just need to re-inforce their rules and be more strict. Start Banning the person who buy gils as well. So far they only Banning RMT once in awhile, it is not enough. Player who bought gils think they are getting away with it and no consequence for buying Gils.

Every time they do a Maintain, create a global message that say "We are beginning maintain shortly. We are looking through our Database and Banning Gil Buyer as well as RMT. If you cannot log back in, it mean you are Banned. Please look forward to it."

[stupiddog]

SE just need to re-inforce their rules and be more strict. Start Banning the person who buy gils as well.

There is a big problem with that, since there is no way SE can tell the difference between these two scenarios:

1.) A player gets lots of gil from a RMT character because he paid for it.
2.) Same as (1), but he/she never had any previous contact with him and did not pay.

Why would scenario (2) happen? Because if banning people receiving gil from RMT was ever enforced, they would use tactic (2) to bring that system down. If truly innocent players got banned (and even a few angry of them starting suing SE...), the bad press and publicity could seriously hurt SE and/or the FF14 franchise. Of course, you could argue that a legitimate, truly innocent player would report receiving an unexpected amount of gil immediately. But then, there are lots of newbies in the game not having the slightest idea what RMT is and just think they got lucky.