Quote Originally Posted by Chrisnetika View Post
Word on the street is that SE staff have a hand in some those RMT sites, I mean look at them.. they all look the same pretty much lol.With that said SE will never do anything to stop bots as long SE staff gets their cut of it.
If the gil farm/RMT spam bots were actually paying for their accounts, that reasoning might be sound but it's fairly well-documented that RMT companies resort to methods like credit card fraud to skirt around the potentially heavy expenses they'd have to make for creating accounts.

It's a business they've been constantly refining since the earliest days of MMOs and finding loopholes to abuse is a large part of how it's able to thrive.