RMT and Banning Buyers

[Gunspec]

Punishments are probably as light as they are for BOTH sides of RMT, because SE values money.

The RMT get a month to screw around before their accounts are banned, since we have NO immediate account locks or action taken against known RMT agents. When these monthly bans occur, the companies use the cash they earned to buy new accounts. You can bet every one of those 7000 accounts recently terminated will be turned into a new account sale. I think the cheapest realm reborn accounts are about $15 (steam sale). That's 100 thousand dollars FFXIV will make from this wave of banning RMT, and over a million dollars a year. Even if they can get accounts cheaper, its still a lot of money. Getting new accounts each month is just a work expense of these RMT companies.

As for the average player, a permanent ban might be enough to get them to quit the game for good. Banning thousand of players who buy from RMT wouldn't necessarily create new sales, and would likely result in a net loss of money from subscription charges.