I'm not entirely convinced they are, ArcheDragon. Sure they occasionally ban a chunk of players, but there are lots of core design philosophies in this game that I think are at the root of why RMT is such a HUGE issue in FFXIV compared to other games. The big one is that many of the things players really want have been designed to take massive chunks of gil. It's like SE is deliberately designing systems to put pressure on people so that they may possibly be tempted to engage in RMT.

There's also a technique SE hasn't tried, besides reworking the gil requirements for certain systems, that works pretty much perfectly on so many other mmos. It goes by many names, including PLEX, REX, Chronoscrolls, and CREDD, and it's like neutering the RMT business.