Quote Originally Posted by Teryaani View Post
Humility won't stop you from taking a shortcut. You also aren't factoring in the generational difference here. Players are buying gil there. They're going straight to the websites do to it rather than being plied by terrible /tell ads.
The ad tell was in English.
I HAVE answered your question. Their cultural values makes them not want to take illegal short cuts. Did you know that japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world? They are very law-abiding people. Many of them would not want to buy gil illegally. It is the same even for the younger generation, as Japan still has very low crime rates today.
Let me ask you, what can you infer by no ad spams? Every ad spam account that is banned costs money to the gilsellers. They lose a lot of money ad spamming in jp servers, but have the opposite results in NA/EU servers. The fact they continue to ad spam, means the more they ad spam, the more people flocking to buy, making it very cost effective to keep buying new ad spam accounts. So, the fact that there is no ad spam in jp servers, implies that RMTs are not getting much customers. So I strongly disagree with you that jp players are secretly flocking to websites to buy.