Square Enix announced earlier this week that more than 5,000 Final Fantasy XIV players were banned after being caught using or promoting real money in the game.
As noted by PCGamesN, on March 4, FFXIV publisher Square Enix unveiled through a news item on the FFXIV website that 5,851 players were banned for their involvement in real money or other trading “prohibited activities 5,037 players were banned for directly participating in real money trading. Meanwhile, another 814 players were banned for simply promoting real money trading.
According to Square Enix the use of real money in-game for transactions or other activities is prohibited in the terms of service, which players agree to before creating an account. Even advertising or just to attempt using real money is bad enough that Square Enix will bring down the banhammer. These bans all took place between February 25 and March 3.
This isn’t the first time Square has revealed Enix a massive wave of account bans. Back in 2019 the publisher banned more than 10,000 players for it similar violations of real money trading.
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