What do you guys think of people buying gil?

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FFXI was my first MMO years and years ago. When I heard people bought gil with actual real money, I was shocked and could not understand it. Now that Im more of an MMO veteran, this no longer comes as a surprise.

I can already hear people say: "it does not affect your game, so stop crying!". While it does not directly affect my experience with FFXIV, it does bother me when people can do stuff which are against FFXIV's policy. There are a few other things why I think it's bothersome, but those are not relevant at this point.

I fully agree on the other hand when people say it's not the people buying gil being the problem. SE can, and has to do a better job to deal with this problem. I just do not believe they do everything they can. In fact, and here it comes, I believe they implicitly support it. Yes, there have been official posts by SE that RMT accounts have been banned. However, I don't think it's a coincidence that they made the bans public only after the whole world knew about their complete failure (at one point you could just type in a command "I want X amount of gil", and you had it).

We could turn this in a statement and discuss about it, but I just wanted to know what you guys think. I personally do not care too much when people do it, they'll (almost) never tell you so it's hard to point fingers (sometimes you just know though). What I do care much about is how SE deals with this, and for me it is no where near good enough.