Why not to do well in the game

[ApolloGenX]

It didn't stop them from taking away the Gil of various crafters that sold their wares on the AH. There is also the fact that SE making Gil isn't really related to their actions in taking Gil.

They probably did that because those crafters were botting and possible RMT activities.

Person X creates a character and three days later has all crafts at 50. Give me a break. You could watch it on the forums and see the rampant botting in game. Then the crafters act like they were just innocent victims, because they didn't RMT... while they DID bot as fast as their little programs would let them.

I especially love the ones that the FC mates fed the bots materials, so they could run 24/7 and then posted congratulatory posts on the forums about the "achievement" of having the first 50 or first person with all 50s like a day or two after release.

Botting/Rotating Play Shifts/ or Meth. You choose which they did.

[Marishi-Ten]

They...really don't. That's why when they flagged all those crafters a few months back, they just took an arbitrary amount of gil from them, instead of the exact amounts of RMT gil they had acquired (second hand, of course - they were not banned because they had not participated deliberately in any RMT activity). They did this while people who had bought items the crafters were still walking around with those items on.

That always seemed to me to be more of market regulation than RMT stop gaping. Square wants to control the inflation of currency so the market doesn't tank or currency is worthless (removing currency from circulation is the best way to do it while maintaining stability. Flooding the market with currency would just crash the economy completely).

I think they removed all of that Gil as a way to keep MB prices lower (though with less currency, the fundamental price for the commodity is the same. Demand is demand). Makes sense, just sucks for the players who accumulated it all.

Imagine if one player with 100M Gil were to buy items at humongous prices. Inflation would triple overnight while only that player has the funds for purchase power essentially crashing the denomination. Or, that player buys ALL of a specific item and turns around and sells it at a massive premium (price fixing/monopolization) creating inflation that the market simply can't afford and crashes (no stabilization without upping currency values and inflating the denomination to near crash levels).

Again, I'm not saying it's fair what happened to those players and I do feel for them, but it was almost a necessary evil.