Just to let you know I despise all the gil sellers and their tactics, and the fact that they own a majority of all camp grounds now, but sadly...
SquareEnix will NEVER stop the gil sellers, reason: Gil Sellers pay for about 25+ accounts on EACH server. Sure you can get that many people to complain to SE about it and you can get that many people to even quit over it. But in the end SE will always get their money from these gil seller accounts.
What can we do about getting rid of the gil sellers?
Nothing, I have tried it all, calling GM's, creating alliance's to take over their areas for an hour, PK fishing bots, etc...
What are the gil sellers are doing now?
Along with bringing in NEW accounts to keep control of the areas they once had before they started to level up... they are now camping NM's and control NM's, meaning if you happen to get the voke on them they will PK you anyway so they can to keep control over that item at the AH. Most of the "old-school" gil sellers that we have come to love so much have already obtained all their AF gear and pretend to play the game... some are now Rank 5, for the airships I guess. They also control any means for a WHM to make any gil off of teleports (feel so sorry for the real WHM's now).
Whats so bad about this all?
Say you need to go farming to get that nice set of gear for your next level... wrong think again. Once you get to your favorite hunting grounds there is a party of gil sellers that are taking everything. Fine, time to go and camp a NM... wrong! They are all camped 24-7 by gil sellers! Before a NM was probably camped by maybe 2-7 people, now its turned into 2-7 people plus a party of gil sellers that control the item. I am not sure if they have voke bots or not because i have won the voke a couple time's. Fine I will go craft, wait that was a stupid thought... I will not make any gil because I have no gil and I would need to farm the items to craft, but can't farm them because they have been gil seller camped. Ok... so the only way I can make any decent gil for that set of armor... BCNM oh no! It looks like many people are already doing this, the value of those items are beginning to drop.
WTF?
Yeah in the end we are screwed.
So should I quit and join another MMORPG?
No, you will have gil sellers there also. Again the other companies will do nothing about them as well because, "game money seller accounts" = a huge amount of real money for the company that owns the game.
So should I just give in and buy gil?
No, you are just helping all of the gil sellers buy more accounts to throw on the servers.
I heard that these gil sellers are actually sending all the profit to charity and to poor countries, is this true?
TOTAL BS! Who ever tells you this probably buys gil and is trying to make his/herself feel better about it. If you have ever talked to a gil seller account (some do speak english) they are generally college students that need the extra cash.
What they are not in sweatshops forced to play?
Sorry I have not heard of any sweatshops where they are forced play FFXI and make a certain amount of gil before they are free to go for the day.
Why dont the Japanese people complain too?
Um, they do... SE does not care. They even have a website made listing all of the gil sellers on each server (very outdated and I think the person that was doing the website quit because of the gil sellers.)
Why should I care about gil sellers, they don't bother me.
Wait until you gain a few levels and try to farm, mine, etc.
Blah, I will just go fish.
HAHA good luck! Fishing has been nerfed and takes entirely too long to make a real profit and will take forever now to get the Lu Shang Rod to actually make decent gil. (btw level 65 Fishing) unless you bot... you want make too much gil fishing.
Fine I will go bot fish.
HAHA, no you are 1 account and SE will have no problem kicking you off.