I'd like to start with how i don't take sides when it comes to friends i have made here, as i have made friends with both Gamers and Gil sellers.
My recient exsperiences in game is roughly farming with both kinds of characters. Gil Sellers in many cases keep to one or few NMs. This dosn't mean they are stupid and only know what they do. Eventually they read and go out seeking new NMs.
A Gamer playing along side a Gil seller means the Gil Seller will make less profit, and more gil stays clean in the game. Which should be taken for good news to those who believe people who associate with Gil Sellers are supporting (I don't know, the distruction of the server ?). If you join a Gil Selling alliance and recieve fuck all, then that's a crying shame, i don't represent that they are all nice, and shit like this is not impossible.
My reason of acceptance in these individuals, is based on me being able to do what i want when i want in game. I have collected my Haku eyes and all of them are ready to fight along my side when i say let's go. They also understand that the Optical hat is for me, and no money is involved. When money is involved they give me my fair share first, and many times they pass me pricy items i collect and farm as a gift, or token of appreation.
I would not reject them unless i feel they are destroying me. When they level in a PT of 6, they still invite me to join them as a 7th party member to level up when things are dull. Even as they well and know there will me less exp made.
Either you MPK or you don't, and the Gil Sellers i have come to know would bring great shame to me if they were to do such a thing, and they know and respect that. The Group Strid has mentioned is the rival of the Gil Sellers i get along with, I thought i'd bring that up to clearify how Gil Sellers have their drama same as we do with Gil sellers, Racisim, and the ever so rare "Enemy Linkshell".
SquareEnix is against Gil sellers for their own reason. They don't want outsiders making money off of the data in their Servers, simply put it's plain wrong. RMT Ruins the games design, as it was designed to be a very long and time consuming leasure activity to keep their costomers month after month. When we have nothing left to do, the game becomes an over priced chatroom before we put it away for good.
So gamers sharing drops with Gil Sellers is better for SquareEnix for the fact the Gil Sellers have less to sell.
Buying Gil is a very distasteful way to go about making choices in my opinion, and if everyone did buy gil, the game would need some serious updates in order to keep Final Fantasy XI active. This is not the case however.
Hunting with Gil Sellers and hunting with ordinary or outstanding members breaks even to one. Without Gil Sellers the game is still not about fair. You want a NM you gotta camp it. You want a very special item or armor, a whole lot of you will never even touch it. When i lose a claim to another party, i let it slide, because in most cases, i lose to people i get along with, when i lose to a Gil Seller or a gamer, i couldn't care less as to what happens to the item or Gil. i don't have time to worry about whos buying and selling in the community, cause the next day everything is the same. And literally, if the price of something goes up, i blame the Gil Buyer, cause in the real world money sets all of our conditions and scheduals. And if i was a Gil buyer, i would write up some seriuos income in the AH. (On a side note i once jacked Amemet Skins, only to restore it to how it was when i first discovered it. It was a sinfully exiting exsperience. And no i am not a gil Seller/buyer.)
In an intangible world such as this, things start to matter because every character is being run by a real mind. This game can get very ugly if it were to write up and record it's history. We've dealt with all of these issues as a species, and here wisdom comes with age. Most of us who play this game are young, and you'd be a fool to think it's ok to dismember or label someone who is at peace with EVERYONE. It's no secret that most people flock with a croud, which isn't a bad thing, but atleast consider thinking for yourself for a change if you might be hating on people who accept all things that cross their path.
When i say "they", i mean everyone including the lot of you, and when "they" invite me to take part in whatever activity, i will go if i can. Some of my aquantances arn't liking that too much, so i have cut down on what i do with who, just to reduce the amount of stones casted at me.
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To anyone who replys to me. If you and i are not friends, i will be very defensive on my own behalf. And if you are one of my firends, you can burn me all you like, cause you cannot imagine how many strikes you have with me. I know true hate and it's not something i with to direct at anyone else.