Square not banning someone who uses RMT

[LadyVal]

You didn't ignore him. You reported him. It's out of your hands now. Ignore and move on.

This just needs to be re-iterated. I don't think anybody is attacking the OP, nor is anyone saying "Meh buying gil is fine." We all know it affects the game. But after we file a report, we as players, have literally no other options left except to blacklist or ignore someone. I think most of the "ignore him" advice stemmed from the fact that the OP said they already reported the person multiple times. At that point nobody except a GM has any action available to them to stop him.

[seida]

SE don't perma ban the buyer, the seller is perma ban not the buyer "look the launcher".

The buyer risk a 7 days max ban and all the gold erase

Yup. Gil buyers don't get perma-banned, SE wants their money. Only gil sellers get properly banned.

[jssanderson747]

As someone who spent about the first two weeks of 3.2 gathering loads of aethersands to make the gil needed to get proper raiding gear made, I can understand where you're coming from. It's crap that people spending real money can get all the good stuff much faster. However, I honestly just don't think it's worth thinking too hard about. There's nothing in this video game about raiding and gearing that is even remotely worth getting upset about because some dude with a bunch of cash got a temporary advantage assuming he didn't get beat to the punch by all the dudes who've had hundreds of millions of gil on their persons since 3.1. As Alex said, there isn't much of an advantage that can be bought with gil.If you know how to make money, it's not even worth sweating imo

The dude may get banned, or may not. As far as I'm aware, they have to do extensive investigations to make those sorts of calls, so don't jump the gun assuming they're doing nothing.

[Rezardi]

There's a player on my server that bought gorillions of gil, name's [Superman's real name], has apparently been banned but not his gil removed. Pretty much everybody on the server knows he is a gilbuyer.

Me and a bunch of other players did some research on how much gil he spent on the market board by going through literally every item on the market board and checking the past history on sales. This player had spent over a billion gil in a couple months on the market board buying all kinds of stuff, while never actually selling much himself. He pretends to be a crafter by spending hundreds of millions on crafting gear and materia but never really makes use of it. We filed a 250+ line long report, but it never bore any fruit.

Well actually, a GM told me they don't actually give a damn once i asked one and told me to piss off(in lighter terms).

It's so absolutely disgusting.

[Aramina]

Disclaimer: I am in no way defending gil buyers/sellers or attacking the OP.

That said, do you have any evidence that he bought gil other than him saying he bought gil? I can say I am the Queen of England but it doesn't make it so. Why would he say something that could get him banned? It's the internet... people say stupid shit all the time. Maybe you are right and SE dropped the ball, maybe they are still investigating, or maybe he was just talking bullshit. Either way, you did your due diligence by reporting something you found hinky... there isn't really anything further you should (or can) do.

[Aquaslash]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see any huge advantage in buying gil anyway. it seems all you can really get is cosmetic items or crafted gear that becomes outdated in literally 2 weeks. So it's like not only did they waste their in game money, but they wasted their real lie money as well, when all they needed was patience

[melisande]

More relevant:
Square not banning people who use third party applications such as Guildwork to notify them of hunts, and ACT to give them sound notifications when bosses do moves, and because "apparently" you absolutely can not improve DPS without the use of this third party tool (sarcasm).

[Vivi_Bushido]

More relevant:
Square not banning people who use third party applications such as Guildwork to notify them of hunts, and ACT to give them sound notifications when bosses do moves, and because "apparently" you absolutely can not improve DPS without the use of this third party tool (sarcasm).

As weird as it sounds, you could almost argue that using those is far more damaging to the well being of the game as an entirety; then someone spending real life money to obtain a glamour or house.

[Kitano123]

It sounds like your in the wrong FC if they don't kick people who admit to buying gil.

[Morphemes]

try not to get your panties in a wad. they've probably flagged the guy if that's any consolation.