Quote Originally Posted by Risvertasashi View Post
He's flat out wrong. High end raid guilds have been doing mercenary runs since the beginning of the game. To the point where they even joke about their clients waiting for their gil to be delivered, so not exactly far from actual RMT connections but they're still in business just fine.

Now, what he might be thinking of is trading for stuff of real world value. Some artists, for example, have gotten warnings for trying to sell art or commissions for gil. This is technically a form of RMT as the art has real world value.
To be fair, high end guilds doing it doesn't mean it's not technically against the rules if it's in there somewhere. It's not hard to find violations of the naming rules, for example. The wording within the rules is even that they may do things about it not that they will.