Ban Hammer Nails Innocent Victim

Really? You're comparing profiling/suspicion of a race to SE banning someone in a game? My advice: if you decide to start posting on these forums, make a reasonable contribution to the thread other than some incorrect statement stemming from your "victimization."

I've settled on a complex narrative where OP unwittingly bangs a GM's wife, spreading delicious herpes. GM goes batshit insane after contracting the virus, murdering his wife by slowing hacking off all her limbs, dissolving said limbs in a bathtub full of lye and sending the torso to the bottom of the nearest body of water; but not before a thorough inquisition reveals the source of said herpes.

Still enraged beyond the level of Chicken Nuggets, GM prepares for the only fitting end to the life of someone in the customer service field: Murder-Suicide. Using his considerable means of minimum wage, OP is tracked by vengeful GM who is ready for final battle. All eventualities are accounted for, save one: The effective range of the RASCAL brand mobility scooter is only 3.5KM on a single charge, and OP lives somewhere between 3.501KM and 12,740KM. Curses, foiled again! But the rage is too great, Vengeful GM must have closure before he rides the wings of the Valkyries to Valhalla. In his act of greatest shame, Vengeful GM breaks the GM's honorbinding oath by issuing an unjustified (in the context of the game) Ban. Ready to die a warriors death, Vengeful GM ingests a full box of Mallomars and slips into a diabetic coma, from which he never awakes.

So on the whole, I'd say OP got off easy.

If it's against the ToS to sell items to an NPC for large amounts of gil in a short time, myself and several people I run with would have been banned by now.

I don't buy crafting items and the like from AH and sell to an NPC, because frankly, that's a dickshit move. That's pretty much a giant f-you to crafters. I will sell aby gold box items to an NPC. Every time I BLU burn in aby I empty my inventory to only carry the gear needed to build lights and burn, I even leave my LS pearl in my mh. I've gotten about 500k off of one run (several dark rings) and all were NPC'd. I've done this several times, in the same 24hr period, with the same toon getting about 2mil and never even had a GM contact me about it.

So unless he sold in excess of 2mil to an NPC then I don't see how he got banned for this.

As for the guilty until proven innocent, I've heard innocent people say this when they felt the odds were stacked against them. Fortunately they had adequate representation.

After reading these posts I'm inclined to agree with several people that there's more to the story. I've GM'd someone that botted a claim from me that wasn't banned, and there's still fishbots out and about that I've seen in the same spot, days on end, various times, and still not banned.

NPCing a none Bazaarable object isn't the same, as you work to gain those items, where as playing the system and exploiting the AH economics (this is the part that SE doesn't like) is a move RMT's abused to control AH prices and make a quick Buck.

That said, they would also need to see you then not use the gil, or transfer this to numerous random people (this would be considered eveidence of selling the gil as there would be no reason for you to farm such volumnes and then give it away randomly).

Wow.....really........you taking what I said that damn seriously?
It was meant as a joke...(a true joke actually).
I am so sorry that I injured your eyes with my text.
Please forgive me.

Sinsurly......


{S*D}Mr.Blade[SoS]


P.S.
That makes post #2 out of probably about 8 or so.......we'll see.

Lol a lil bit of internet racism never hurt nobody...... LLLLLEEERRRRRROOOYYYY JJJEEEENNNNNKKKKIIINNNNSSSS

If I got banned from FFXI for no reason (or at least no GOOD reason), the last thing I would ever do is give Square Enix more of my money by playing another one of their games again.

As for the Ban. it's because I used too many C Card#'s in my time, (4 in the past 6 months, stuff happens.) and I guess thats bad. Putting in a unfair ban report dosent seem to do much.