Square not banning someone who uses RMT

[MXMoondoggie]

Banning somebody isn't so easy as looking at a report and then banning the person forever. They need to be able to prove it and that takes time reviewing logs and examining behaviours to determine if they are using RMT. I've seen people wrongly accused of being gold sellers in other games and just have their account deleted with no way of getting it back. These were top players on the server and worked very hard farming dungeons and selling drops for loads of gold or selling runs.

Often when people get banned they start shouting about how they were wronged either way so SE has to be able to say they have proof they were correct in banning somebody otherwise it causes problems. You can't be involved in investigating things so it may seem that they are doing nothing they seem to do things in batches somewhat once they have enough proof they decide on a punishment for first time offenders they sometimes get a warning or a short term ban and others will get a perma ban right away.

[Culfinrandir]

Unfortunately they take a very long time to ban, if they do it all all. There's people who've bragged in game, on forums, on websites & in videos about botting/hacking/cheating/buying gil. So much so, that there's far more evidence than a court case would require, yet they're still merrily playing in game. It doesn't portray the game in a good light.

[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.

[Colorful]

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).

Banning people who use ACT would mean banning almost all raiding guilds, that's not going to happen.

[Kitano123]

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