The materia and melding system already raped the wallets of most players with gil to blow on legacy servers. Game devs are bastardizing and exercising extreme prejudice against the players that paid for this game while it was a festering pile of dung and continued to play it through it's 1.0 to 1.2 changes. The most loyal customers have the LEAST access to the game's content. /clap well done. Welcome to a virtual representation and perhaps explication for Japan's ever failing economy, an absolute lack of common sense at all levels of infrastructure.

The best part will be when the gold farmers own all the land, because they farmed said land legitimately and purchased it with gil not sold to players and then sell the land plots at higher rates of return. In no way would this violate the ToS, insofar as the the farmers stick to real players and markets to get their gil, rather than bots.