Quote Originally Posted by Noumenon View Post
Just think of all the people making money from FF14 players, from fanart ($100 sometimes) to making mods (some of which is literally ripping assets from other games and selling it for $30), of all kinds, to streaming, and to other types of "activities" (like reselling houses on Omega for $800) while laughing at the horrid state of the game and its players in private. There are a lot of paypigs to exploit, this is well-known. People will pay $200 to make an ugly custom portrait for their in-game character to use on Discord because they're addicted to the game and to their character.

Vultures, perhaps? But while FF14 is becoming a joke of a game, the vultures are eating well.

In fact, the worse the game becomes, the better it is for the vultures, as players start to rely on third-party content, ToS-abiding or not, to continue engaging in the community. How many players in FF14 are only subbed because they paid $200 to make their custom IMVU character with custom ToS-violating bodies and poses?
So your comparing your rmt and botting to people paying to have art commissions of there characters and streamers getting paid to stream the game and modders and physical merchandise likes statues that square enix sells on there merchandise store. So i guess every publisher/production company selling physical merchandise for there films/music/video games are equivalent to your rmt services to exploit people. Basically your saying it's ok to rmt and exploit lazy players buying gil is ok because people get paid to stream the game or have art commissioned or square enix sells merchandise.