The RMT of selling content using cross server party finder

[Risvertasashi]

Oh it’s absolutely RMT. Happened in November with a mutual friend of my static members. He went through this exact thing, even admitting it in game. Purchased something like $200 USD in gil, used it to furnish their FC, and pay for his O4 clear.

There's a difference here. If someone's selling a clear for gil... they have no realistic means to know if that gil was ill gotten or not. It's SE's responsibility to fight RMT, not for every merchant to go "did you buy your gil?" and hire private investigators to verify the truth.

When people sell runs for dollars or euros... which as others mentioned, takes all of a few seconds to find out... then they are clearly engaging in RMT. Sadly, while companies like Blizzard or ANet have no qualms about having employees check these things out and banning the RMTers, Square Enix does. Unless they mention specifically in game that they're selling for money, SE won't touch them.

because they won’t accept screenshots from third-party chat clients as evidence. Since they can be “altered”, is the excuse.

There's an easy enough way to keep this policy while getting the evidence. Have Square's very own GMs join those discords and ask for the price sheet.

But of course, they won't.