Quote Originally Posted by Alberel View Post
What I don't get is why RMT would want to do this... stealing gil directly from players actually harms their own business. Why would anyone buy from them if RMT could just steal it back again?
Interesting question you propose here. It doesn't really make sense to me either; however, in the face of SE combating their other various routes of gaining gil abnormally, something like this doesn't seem to far off... But like some people have said here, it seems a little unusual for them to just blatantly attack players who are actively playing the game. Not only that, they did it to a large number and not just a handful.

But, I must say, I'm pretty impressed with how fast the Dev team jumped to stop this issue from ensnaring more victims. Though, there were people in the middle of stuff who got the short end (Sorry to hear about that guy who lost 9 animal fat in a synth. Ouch.) Nonetheless, legal action has gotten involved now. Hopefully that'll deter further attempts to cause chaos later on. But one can only hope, of course.