Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post
SE needs to get serious about the game's infractions.

The EULA needs to be updated to promote healthy play vs. allowing "botting/cheating". And if caught you will be subject to suspension or permaban. This is the only way you will push these slimy people from capitalizing on SE's products.

If SE took the little nugget, "Hey, we pay for the development of the game, the servers and network infrastructure, support, and marketing of this game....but these a-holes are stealing from us by destroying the experience of our product?"
This assumes, end of the day, they WANT to do it. I believe, as I have said, there are Square-Enix employees that are certainly in bed with account sellers, gil sellers, etc. I do not believe many of them are in the JP section, mind you.

You also have to start asking the question as to whether this company has the balls to actually enforce the ownership of it's materials. This is as much counterfeiting SE property as if someone mass-produced a bunch of Squall swords and sold those online.

Quote Originally Posted by Sqwall View Post
Wake up SE! These slime bags are PROFITTING on your intellectual property by subverting one of it's aspects, which is GIL (in game currency). I highly doubt the people that does this "care" about the story, making friendships, contributing to the game's multiplayer aspects, or simply engaging at all. If SE would realize the game to them is simply another vehicle to produce capital for a false enterprise.

In an AMERICAN corporate environment, this would be SQUASHED insanely fast or the false enterprise would be purchased to be destroyed.
Oh no. If anything, an AMERICAN corporate environment would demand this level of cheating and the like as a precondition of play.

Which see Final Fantasy XI for many, many years.