lol, thats the same thing i was thinking before

Yea, Scion on Leviathan brags about buying and selling gil all the time. I wonder if he is still here. God I hate him.

Seems that way. People hack this game all the time. My friend was hacked, lost almost everything. They even delvled her. She was able to get her lvls restored, but SE never compensated her for her losses in gil and items. They need to impliment more safeguards to prevent hacking. One reason I don't like the PC version of FFXI is because it makes it easier to hack. Removing the gil from the economy may be a good thing, but we all know what government intervention in the US economy did, don't we?

All is all, I thank SE, but there is still so much more that could be done that isn't. I tire of the lack of service. The times I've called their help line to try and sort things out, they not only don't know what they are talking about or they can't do anything without consulting someone else. >.< I mean come on. Even I read the user agreement. These people should know it inside and out.

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yes, but, by law, they can't do that. you think governments give a sh*t about a company's ToS? you think they give a sh*t about some virtual economy? ...they don't.

and the problem ain't the sellers, its the BUYERS. the people who're f*cktarded enough to CAUSE this sh*t to happen. its a proven fact. eliminating the supply directly will only cause a black market to form. you have to either sell gil directly (ie SE offers the gil) or kill off buyers to set an example. THAT is what must happen to control the situation.

YOU apparently never learned the principles of criminal economics.

Are you insinuating that his name isn't Saddam Hussein? Because I'm pretty sure that is his name.

At any rate. I half agree with you.

There will always be a terrorist presense. Mainly because if you kill all the terrorists, that will just make more people realize that the killERs are the real "terrorists" and will then become terrorists to avenge their comrads and countrymen.

However, SE has a trump card. They have all the game data at their fingertips. Litteraly nothing can happen in the game without it being recorded somewhere. And if you have somewhat compitent people running senarios and pulling that data properly, you can find people to track, and catch them and all of their co-horts.
Terrorists can hide because (to my knowledge) there is no computer system at the heart of the world that tracks everybody on the planet's every movement.

I do, however, think it is funny that the gil sellers were their own worst enemy. SE Said they were going to start looking, so what do they do? They jack up the prices on everything. LOL dumbasses.

they wouldnt even have to do that. Just follow where all the money goes. They are SE, they have all of your game info... and I'm pretty sure they could pull up anything they goddamn want to and run all kinds of cross reference / gil flow pattern analysis for anything they want.