There's automated scripts running right now to ban RMT/gold sellers. S-E, naturally, found a way of messing this up, and as a result a lot of legitimate players are currently being banned and unable to get back into their accounts for days, if not over a week, worth of time. Combined with the fact that you are required to continue paying for your account during this time, it has aggrivated many people.

I still miss playing the game, and I still sometimes think about starting to box it, but given that they're banning people with relative reckless abandon, I'd emphasize a bit of caution. Boxing may be something that gets flagged as RMT activities.

S-E's customer support/service system has to be one of the worst I've seen in any MMO. It's really sad, since I did really like FFXI, and I'm excited about FFXIV.

I'd suggest reading up some on http://ffxi.zam.com/ and take a look at the current frustration players are having with these bannings. 6 accounts is a lot to invest in, only to have some automated script run and ban you, simply beacuse you're transferring money from the 5 toons to 1 main.