Quote Originally Posted by Tenshi View Post
This isn't necessarily a valid conclusion. The presence of RMT could indicate that a small number of FFXIV players are spending a lot of real world currency on gil, but it also could indicate that a large number of FFXIV players are spending a little real world currency.
That is the conclusion I reached. All you know is that players are buying gil. You don't if it means there's a big population or a small one, just that RMT customers are among them.