Quote Originally Posted by Chiramu View Post
One thing to think about, RMT won't exist if people never use the service. There is no RMT spam on Tonberry and I assume the other JP servers are similar. Is NA servers getting so much RMT spam because NA players buy so much gil?
Most of the RMT companies are NA or EU, and they operate on multiple games, most of which are English language games. Which means the people writing the scripts and the spam mostly speak English, maybe a European language or two. Japanese servers don't get spam because it doesn't make financial sense to hire someone who can write spam in Japanese and keep up with filters for the tiny bit of the market it would impact.

That and the amount/kind of advertisement doesn't say all that much about the size of a market. Plenty of businesses you'll never hear advertised on the radio, but that doesn't mean they're not doing well.