Quote Originally Posted by Amnesia View Post
And I heartily support the idea of suspending/banning "legit" players' accounts who trade with gilsellers. If people could be made afraid of dealing with RMTs, then the spam would stop.
While I partially agree, I don't think that this is a good idea.

First of all, the amount of additional resources SE would have to put into the RMT effort would go through the roof, if you think a small handful of people can investigate all of the legit accounts that buy gil then I think you're underestimating the amount of people who buy gil. As you guys pretty much said, if people weren't buying gil the RMT wouldn't be putting as much effort into their cause.

Secondly, the receiver can always claim ignorance and unless they specifically mention buying gil in game you can't really suspend/ban somebody for accepting a "random friend request". I'm pretty sure if you openly admit to buying gil in the in game chat they will already suspend/ban you if somebody reports it. One option might be to just remove the gil from their account, haha but the last time they did that people were outraged.

Overall I think there is a lot more overhead to these issues than people consider. Yoshi specifically said he's not interested in putting limits on tells such as level restrictions so I'm sure he's considered this as an option. I am all for restricting tells until level 10 because I do think it would have a significant impact on that part of things, but people would still find a way to complain about it.

Personally I've found that the number of RMT tells I've been receiving on Cactuar is probably at about 1/10 of what it was a few months ago and that's good enough for me, I don't expect SE to lose their shirt over this, there's not a single successful MMO out there that doesn't have RMT and I think people underestimate the amount of money/time that would go into some of these methods. To this day I've never met a person who quit the game over RMT but I've sure met an awful lot that quit due to lack of content, so I would prefer that's where they put most of their money.