People buy gil for whatever reason it seems. If people didn't buy gil the bots and rmt spam bots would not be here.

It is unfortunate but it apparently is profitable enough for some one to continue disrupting the rest of the game's population so they can buy more crap. Top it off with rampant credit card and account theft and you got a real problem that wouldn't even be there if people just quit buying the gil.

I don't understand it.. just casually playing and doing treasure maps sometimes 1 time a week or less and selling ingredients or crafted items I made enough gil to get multiple houses/upgrade to mediums and still got plenty of gil and never once have I considered rmt as an option. I don't merc runs or anything like that. Gil is just about as meaningless as I've ever seen currency be in this game. Gear is literally thrown into your hands all through the msq. I can understand if you are trying to get a house in the current climate and you're having difficulty accumulating that upfront cost but don't need to to rmt to get that lump. Stop buying glams and going to rp events and giving huge tips etc.

So to answer your question, potato.