The RMT of selling content using cross server party finder

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Originally Posted by whiskeybravo

Right now it could hardly be considered a rampant problem (selling end game content clears for real money, that is)

I don't know how it is on Primal, but it can get pretty bad on Aether. There are times where the same group has three different listings up - One under a roulette, one under an EX trial and one under the 'other' tab - and that's one group. It's not uncommon to see 5+ listings at once.

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

All the GMs need do is "accept" the sell, then flag all seven people who party with them.

What if the seller was legit? "Sorry for wasting your time"?

For something like Ultimate it would be obvious all are in on it, but for easier duties, the sellers could be recruiting PUGs and keeping the info about it being a sale to themselves (less mercs = larger share).

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Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

Even a temp ban would scare virtually every sale group into immediately stopping.

I agree, but SE isn't going to temp ban that many players that have cleared Ultimate.

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Originally Posted by alimdia

Doubt anything will happen, from a business point of view they aren't really gaining anything from spending resources on busting those groups, and despite all the shouting over it this doesn't really impact the game at all. Unlike people who buy gil from bots (which involve bot-generated money and can affect a server economy) the money is being handed from player A to player B, it doesn't even touch the FFXIV economy.

The same groups sell gil and use bots. Who would have guessed?