It feels like the merc community boom has strangled whatever was left of the people who actually tried to help others/make pugs.
Kinda disgusting seeing people selling anything and everything. Why help any new player when you can force them to farm a bajillion beehive chips to pay for that merit BCNM item they want...
In the few pugs I've made recently, I've gotten quite a few tells from people offering their "services" for sums of gil.
It's out of hand, and I honestly don't know how to fix it. I get why it happened, there really isn't a lot of soloability in end game content. The people mercing either have 2-5 boxing or they are one of the many merc LS that popped up. I don't see any way to attack it other than attacking multi boxers via ip tracking.