Gil Spam

[Gunspec]

Honestly, the idea that SE wants RMT to continue for any reason at all is laughable at best.

It costs money to hire proper moderators to lock and ban RMT spammers as they commit their offenses. This is what MMOs like WoW, SWTOR, and ESO do to combat spammers, and those games have substantially less spam. I was playing ESO when they finally started having GMs actively shut down spammer accounts, and it went from FFXIV levels of spam to silence in a few days.

Alternatively, they can hire 3 people to slowly take action on a predictable schedule (that RMT plan their bot leveling around like clockwork), and still make your estimated 5% sales while spending far less than any other major MMO on fighting RMT. The result is a game full of spam.

Go check out the forums to other mmos. See if there are threads from players crying about spam. Then ask yourself "what are those games doing that FFXIV isn't?". Because that's the solution to the problem.

Consider for a moment that if I started advertising gil for cash deals on THESE VERY FORUMS, that I would be locked and banned in a matter of minutes. Not days or weeks. MINUTES. Now consider that this isn't happening in the game that these forums officially represent. THAT'S WEIRD.