SE why don't you try and sue the gil sellers?

[Suliscrew]

Many of these gil sellers are based in the US (or at least there servers are) so shouldn't you send some Cease or Desist letters to them? It should put a halt to some rather quick.

[HumsterMKX]

Laws between countries dont work that way. Moreover, ever hire a lawyer before?

[Annah]

Laws between countries dont work that way. Moreover, ever hire a lawyer before?

Wrong. I worked for SOE and CCP and I can tell you SE has the legal authority to go after companies overseas. Blizzard has even gone after gold farmers legally. I've seen it done and I've seen it work.

[Oriachim]

A lot of the Gil sellers are hacked accounts. Even a dog doesn't dump where it sleeps.

[Fensfield]

Not to mention there was a landmark case back when Gravity tried to do that for Ragnarok Online and, rather unexpectedly, the courts ruled in favour of the RMT merchants and gave Gravity a pretty sore return. Ever since then and despite the fact that digital law has matured to the point where they'd probably win, MMO companies aside from Blizzard have been kinda wary of trying legal action.

Not that I wouldn't love it if they did take these people to court or indeed even just start flinging C&D's. But.. that's my feeling as to why besides.

[Taeyeon]

inb4 lawyer threats

[Milmoko_Gemoko]

Instead of suing perhaps how about simply going the criminal route: they've essentially hacked the game (Squares IP/property), stolen property (the account/character) and given how our accounts are generally linked to credit cards/debit cards the some fraud their too.
So yeah trace IPs and call the cops in the relevent countries.
I'm pretty sure fraud and theft are almost universaly accepted crimes.

[Rushx]

only way to stop gil sellers is to make them not needed , i might actually have to stop playing because to many gil sinks and no way of making it unless you want to craft but its not soemthing i want to do

[Faedden]

I thought it wasn't illegal? I know it's against ToS but I don't think it's against any actual law.

[Ryios]

I thought it wasn't illegal? I know it's against ToS but I don't think it's against any actual law.

It's not illegal. It's not any more illegal than me borrowing your chain saw to cut wood and selling the wood out from the back of my truck.

What the US needs to do is make it so that game companies can claim their games and the virtual things in them as assets. Then taking assets from the game to sell to others without consent could be considered theft. But that's getting the government to acknowledge virtual (non existent) things as being tangible (having real world value) which I don't think will happen anytime soon.