"Advertising" Board - Have Devs Ever Addressed This?

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Originally Posted by Ooshima

This "issue" is really one of the smaller problems that most of the player base live by. SE won't be spending time making changes or things that doesn't really give a tangible benefit to the majority of the player base.

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Doesn't mean it shouldn't be suggested.

-Talking to an NPC while on chocobo.
-Auto dismounting chocobo when going into cities.
-Changing teleport names to easily understand where you're going (Fun Fact: I actually recommended this in Beta, but then they did the opposite for Gridania, then much later fixed it in a future patch).
-Sort function.
-Etc.

I'm sure there's a huge list of "minor inconveniences" that have been addressed. Things can always be better and should be discussed, and it seems like the devs do in fact listen to what people say occasionally.



These on their own separate pages:


The Binding Coil of Bahamut - Turn 4
The Whorleater (Extreme)
The Second Coil of Bahamut - Turn 4
Ramuh (Extreme)
FATEs - Coerthas
Hunts
Shiva (Extreme)


4STAR «culinarian» LFW! Get discounts off MB prices!
WTB Inferno horn for 1.2m
Selling Jet Black Dye, Pure White Dye
Selling T5-T9 // Ex Primals. E x c e l l e n t prices!
★★★★ Need something crafted? 4 star crafts
Selling Promise of Devotion (3m Platinum/1.5m Gold)
Selling Rank 8 FC w/ medium house in Lavendar Beds





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The Binding Coil of Bahamut - Turn 4
4STAR «culinarian» LFW! Get discounts off MB prices!
WTB Inferno horn for 1.2m
The Whorleater (Extreme)
Selling Jet Black Dye, Pure White Dye
The Second Coil of Bahamut - Turn 4
Ramuh (Extreme)
Selling T5-T9 // Ex Primals. E x c e l l e n t prices!
★★★★ Need something crafted? 4 star crafts
Selling Promise of Devotion (3m Platinum/1.5m Gold)
FATEs - Coerthas
Selling Rank 8 FC w/ medium house in Lavendar Beds
Hunts
Shiva (Extreme)



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Originally Posted by kidvideo

Jeez, who cares? Does it harm your game play in any way?

To be clear, if it does you got probs.

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Yes? Less people that are actively trying to clear, less people to actually form a party with. More people who might not be skilled enough to actually clear the content due to getting carried. And promotes potential gil buying, which promotes gil sellers, which promotes bots.

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Originally Posted by zeth07

To be clear players shouldn't be able to queue while advertising and I don't agree with selling runs and advertising that.

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Jeez, who cares? Does it harm your game play in any way?

To be clear, if it does you got probs.

I agree that it is fine as is. Yeah I have to scroll through and read what's listed to see if I want to do any of it, but even if the advertisements weren't there I would still have to scroll.

And what about people looking for parties that aren't interested in doing any of the normal things? Just a couple days ago I needed people for a screenshot that I was setting up for the contest, and with the hours I'm on being very dead I needed all the exposure I could get. I'm pretty sure nobody logged on that night planning to dress up as an orphan and pretend that I gave them a present, but when they saw the party finder entry I got several inquiries and people interested in volunteering. I would have been out of luck if I had been stuck posting my request on a separate board.

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Originally Posted by zeth07

Yes? Less people that are actively trying to clear, less people to actually form a party with. More people who might not be skilled enough to actually clear the content due to getting carried. And promotes potential gil buying, which promotes gil sellers, which promotes bots.

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I'm an old-school MMORPG player; I'm quite used to crafting being as much a part of the game as actual combat, so people buying their way to a win doesn't really jar with me. In SWG you took your dancer/musician/doctor/scout with you on 'raids' even though they didn't contribute in any actual fights.

I think housing promotes gil-buying more than merc runs do.

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Originally Posted by zeth07

To be clear players shouldn't be able to queue while advertising and I don't agree with selling runs and advertising that.

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Originally Posted by zeth07

Yes? Less people that are actively trying to clear, less people to actually form a party with. More people who might not be skilled enough to actually clear the content due to getting carried. And promotes potential gil buying, which promotes gil sellers, which promotes bots.

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Here we go again with the "buying a clear automatically equals RMT" bull... >.>

Working as intended.....

I have to agree with others in the thread, the party finder has a filter that allows you to essentially only see the content you're actually looking for already. Nobody is forcing you to look at the people selling stuff. While some type of announcement/trading board would be cool, I'm willing to bet people would continue to use the party finder anyways (probably both in that case if possible) in order to increase visibility of their sale.

Saw a party finder once with the guy looking for players interested in doing 1 on 1 matches in either call of duty mw3 or ghosts and wagering gil. Beyond thinking that it was funny I couldn't find two shits in my pocket to give.

I prefer it not be the new market board.

A few is fine but sometimes, it gets out of hand quickly.

If there are enough of these sell/buy parties, eventually people will need to spam chat to advertise what they are selling, which I've seen a few times on busier days. If you hate RMT tells, you'll hate it more when someone is spamming chat that they are selling 2 rose gold nuggets every 30-60 seconds. Take that and multiply that by 20-30 individuals and it becomes very annoying, very quickly.

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Originally Posted by zeth07

Doesn't mean it shouldn't be suggested....

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I undersatnd your point.
But I foresee even if they make a dedicate ads board (or sorting/list/group), ppl will just put their ads on both places or only on the most viewed place.