Is there a risk of ban if you happen to have gil transaction with RMT?

[DefendPopPunk]

Not sure how they go about it. I know some guys at school that bought gil for housing back when it first came out and they never got banned for it. That was ages ago. Always kind of annoyed me that they can get away with stuff like that but eh, nothing I can do about it.

[Alukah]

Not sure how they go about it. I know some guys at school that bought gil for housing back when it first came out and they never got banned for it. That was ages ago. Always kind of annoyed me that they can get away with stuff like that but eh, nothing I can do about it.

Still now people can get away with it, there's someone in my server who bought a mansion for his fc, bought a personal mansion as soon as 2.38 landed (meaning he paid 87.5m), bought 10 thavnairian onions as soon as they got to the market for 8m each (80m) and until two weeks ago none of his crafting classes were melded, then he bought out the crafting materia market, caused a huge spike in field II, field III and master demi and is getting supra for all his crafters.

Apparently none of this has raised any suspicions, it's clear that the people hired for monitoring the market/housing are not doing their job, when someone can spend hundreds of millions like nothing while having zero market presence as a seller.

[Tupsi]

Apparently none of this has raised any suspicions, it's clear that the people hired for monitoring the market/housing are not doing their job, when someone can spend hundreds of millions like nothing while having zero market presence as a seller.

Ah, but you see in XI this would automatically flag you and raise further suspension because that's way too much gil being flung around by ONE person - The thing is, with ARR, Yoshida said he's avoiding banning people, mainly on the principle that an account could be compromised and no one would like to come back to a banned account. So even if it raises suspensions, the question that obviously has to be asked is:

"Who does it hurt?"

Unless it hinders your gameplay, they're really not going to bother with it. It does suck to see, especially after Yoshida said recently he can see how much gil EVERYONE has and can see that plenty of people can afford the plots and so on.

[DefendPopPunk]

Ah, but you see in XI this would automatically flag you and raise further suspension because that's way too much gil being flung around by ONE person - The thing is, with ARR, Yoshida said he's avoiding banning people, mainly on the principle that an account could be compromised and no one would like to come back to a banned account. So even if it raises suspensions, the question that obviously has to be asked is:

"Who does it hurt?"

Well, I guess they don't have to be banned, just have their gil taken away. Or their house lol...I dunno, they must have had a reason for putting that line in the patch notes about not buying housing with gil from RMT, so either they're not following through with it or those people are getting their gil legitimately.

I'm sure some people might come up with a reason or two for how it affects them, or the economy in general, but that's a whole different argument imo.