
The developers of the hugely popular online role playing game Final Fantasy XI, Square Enix, banned hundreds of accounts in an effort to cease the practice of selling FFXI Gil for real money. The developers had also hoped to bring down what they believed to be inflated prices of the in-game currency. Farmers are people who spend all day playing Final Fantasy XI with the sole purpose of earning gil that can be sold for real money. After the investigation, over 700 accounts were disabled and over 300 billion gil was removed in order to return the in-game economy to normal. In terms of real dollars that amount of Gil would be worth about $5,000,000 USD.