Thing is then RMT would instead sell leveled up characters and accounts instead.

Cheaters and lazy a-holes are the only reason we have RMT problems, if they didn't pay RMT to play for them then RMT would not exist at all in the game.

It's the same as with drugs, people love to demonize the drug dealers, when the real source of the problem are all the f'ing junkies giving them money for the drugs. If people didn't buy drugs or gil then drug dealers an gilsellers would not even exist.

Problem is SE has never punished buyers in numbers significant enough, and rather focus only on RMT while making the game increasingly worse for legit players (e.g. We can't send things to other anyone who isn't in our friends list, and by extension we can;t send stuff to alt characters in the same account.)

So I say Let's focus on removing the Gilbuyer scum instead, and RMT will disappear instantly from the game.