Gil Spam

[Gunspec]

That way they not only remove the spam bots and farm bots, but also the bankers, transfer accounts and command/control accounts.

Go take a look at how much gil people are spending for mercenary runs. Examine these people who don't have crafting classes, people who haven't been playing the game long, and people who have no ability to legitimately acquire gil, and observe how they are spending 50-100 million gil a night on runs for thordin gear, ponies, raid clears, etc. Notice how the groups selling runs then can magically afford relic items that cost 8 million gil total, and how the crafters in these fcs can afford to blow millions of gil getting on precious crafting materia.

Or just keep telling yourself that the devs are doing a good job fighting RMT, and that putting up with a hundred spam messages an hour is totally worth it. All I'm saying is the LEAST they can do is bite down on the spam.

RMT is out of control in this game, and SE's "special way" of dealing with it results in this being the ugliest RMT spam polluted major mmo on the market.

[Felis]

If SE wouldn't design crafting to be as tedious, grindy soul crushing and RNG infested (Hello 16% chance overmeld with materia @120K gil a pop) then we would not have this problem.

Materia melding have nothing to do with level up a DoH class.
just buy the needed items for the leves and GC from the MB, if crafting them yourself is too much for you.
Also, you can buy materias from the Diadem shop, if they are overprized in the MB.

[Granyala]

Materia melding have nothing to do with level up a DoH class.
just buy the needed items for the leves and GC from the MB, if crafting them yourself is too much for you.
Also, you can buy materias from the Diadem shop, if they are overprized in the MB.

You don't craft do you?

If you did you would realize that leveling a craft to 60 means jack shit. You won't be able to craft anything worthwhile, because everything even remotely interesting is locked behind star recipes that need MOAR STATS.

How do you get MOAR STATS? Dump millions of gil into the RNG slotmachine or spend weeks on the red script grind.

Leveling a craft to 60 is MAYBE 25% of the effort required to get ready to craft 2* patterns, and lets not even begin about chances of HQing them.