Is it okay to take gil to delete characters (mules/alts) you own?

[jars]

With the current ability to have both first and second names, this really shouldn't be an issue. Unless a person wants a very specific name that is extremely popular like.. "Cloud Strife" or something, which I believe all servers probably already have... this makes little sense. And anyone wanting Cloud, Sephiroth or other popular Final Fantasy names really needs some originality...

well we're in a thread by someone named celes chere

[Vespar]

well we're in a thread by someone named celes chere

Hadn't noticed :P
But yeah...

[Gilraen]

This may be iffy due to the fact that you are paying gil for an out of game service.

That's the thing, the gil and the character name are all in-game. There's no out-of-game about it. "You like my name? Want it? That'll be 7 million gil." And not a dime was spent nor web site visited. The real rub here is the high potential for scamming. You pay the gil, log to character creation and, look at that, you can't use the name or the seller timed it to where you can't make a character on your server leaving the name you bought open to get snagged by someone else.

[StouterTaru]

If you want a character with a specific name, just do like all the other douches and add x's around it: Xmydouchex Xnamewastakenx.

[Fyrebrand]

Sounds lame to me, from all angles. Try to come up with an alternate spelling or twist on the name you want, or heaven forbid, be original. By paying someone who's squatting on a desired name, you are rewarding them for that behaviour and demonstrating that it is a lucrative activity.

And of course, I would think the odds of getting scammed are quite high. SE will not do anything about it, as long as you willingly handed them your gil. It's just like those jerks who clean out their guild's bank and then leave. I've never heard of any of those people facing any consequences.

[Illya]

Name-squatting is as old as MMOs are.

If you want a character name, you better be logging in right when the servers are coming up for launch. Otherwise it's going to someone else who gets to be Cloud Strife.