Quote Originally Posted by lievaordiea View Post
they amended the store a while back
apparently bots were buying it and selling it cheeper to players
not entirely sure why that would be a bad thing as SE would still gain the cash
but it was part of that

prior you could gift mounts
its a crying shame they removed that. i gave mounts to my friends on their birthdays.
you can still do it in game tho. buy a minion/mount and send it them

just means SE looses cash shop money i guess
Soooo, here's an old post from Lodestone: Link

Apparently, a portion of those purchases was made from stolen bank accounts. As far as I know, companies are generally required to refund the money they got from transactions like this, so SE would be, in that case, at a losing side, since they'll have to refund the money while the person still has the item, and the only one getting profit in that scenario is the reseller. So technically, the logic is there.

What I don't quite understand is why they went with current "partial" gift feature, instead of either making all items sendable to friends only, or just disabling the feature entirely. Considering the items that seem to be prohibited for gifting are "registrables", my only assumption is that it's harder on back-end side to take those back compared to "physical" items, like clothes. I do however wonder how deleting the item would work with something like Fantasia or dyes, which can be gifted, but they are also consumable, meaning they don't stay on your account forever.