Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
Thanks for enlightening me. I'm still at a loss at how they continue to get away with it. Isn't every bit as illegal as an advertiser using a radio station or TV broadcast to try and sell their product without their permission? I guess I'm just confused as to how it is even worth it. Are there really enough gil buyers out there that it is worth the legal ramifications - if any should they get caught, and also ruining the in-game experiences of those who pay good money to play the game?

I was just telling a friend of mine that shards/crystals/clusters are more valuable to me than gil, and while that is not a suggestion, I do wonder if the game can implement a new kind of currency that RMT won't have access to without actually putting effort into playing the game.
The difference here is advertisers on radio and TV have to be approved by the people hosting the medium before they're even allowed to have their ads posted to the public. There's a lot of rules and regulation when it comes to those types of media. This game isn't quite the same in that regard and RMT does not care what the rules are. They are performing illegal activity because there's money to be made. They know there will be people dumb enough to do business with them and that's how we have accounts that are hijacked and are used as a puppet to make dummy characters for botting and RMT advertising. The people behind RMT give no clucks about ruining the game experience for everyone because they're a mob aiming to make money and will be aggressive in doing so. By being aggressive in their advertising, they guarantee at least 1% of players will take interest, even if the rest of the 99% won't go for it.

Remember, it costs little to nothing to keep bots running 24/7 and the return investment is potentially huge. And because RMT can operate anywhere in the world, good luck trying to persecute them if you aren't willing to fork over the time and money to do so. For each RMT that does go down, another will take their place. This doesn't mean Square should just quit combatting them, but it's not as easy as people make it sound when it comes to fighting RMT directly. We need more options to filter them out and while the RMT direct report feature is great, we need more options.