I really dislike players/fc's running ads on other servers other than their own...

You know what I dislike, more than any amount of RMT gil spam? Players deciding to make lvl 1 characters to advertise their FC's on other servers, to try and get people to transfer. and people on the forum doing the same.

No, I don't want to transfer to the JP datacenter. Stop asking.

That is all.

really? people do that?

I can understand forums, but in game?

Wait, what... is this really a thing? I mean, I've noticed a rise in "PS4 Only" companies, but, "Are you tired of your server?" companies? That's really stupid given it costs money to transfer servers, and it's never guaranteed the server is even open at the time...

First time i hear about people doing that. Never seen it on Moogle.

Look at newest posts on the forums some FC is going posting on every server if you transfer you can buy stuff from them

I've never noticed that before. However last night in WOD someone did advertise a FC before Dark Cloud.. But I'm taking their word for it being a wrong macro. As the first reply was " You do know that were all from different servers right?"

Now apart from the whole world transfer thing. There's also people that can create multiple characters on different servers. They could be using one in a very inefficient way to get people who have alts on other servers to have one on theirs join that FC.

I've never seen this.

(Seems like the forums are flooded with the said ads as this topic is being discussed)

I remembered once this happened in Odin server months ago, level 1 character in Mordhona shouting stuffs like that because not everyone check the forums. Anyway, they sound to me like some desperate bunch.
Also I remembered that guy got told by everyone to go back to his server lol.

I'm mainly commenting because I had a "newbie" join my fc today, just to spam everyone with ads looking for them to transfer servers.

Plus, the forum thing.

plus, I get shout chats at least once a day about some FC on cactuar offering free SCoB carries to anyone who transfers.

I don't know if it is only Jenova, but people want us in other places, I guess.

I think he means these posts

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-ScoB-FcoB%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-ScoB-FcoB%29
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...9-ScoB-FcoB%29


Which got posted on every world by new forum accounts asking ppl to transfer and buy stuff from them

SE Needs to take care of the spam, if you are looking to sell on your server good idc but when you spam posts about wanted to sell stuff on the forums it needs to stop

Um, the guy advertising his carries does know that we're only allowed to transfer with a million gil, right? I doubt that's going to be enough to pay for a T9 + carry.

Either they missed that detail when spamming the forum with their ads or they're just trying to bait us into their server for whatever reason(?)

... Or their prices really ARE as cheap as they claim them to be.

As I'm sure there are knuckleheads that will bite and actually transfer over... Hey keeps the RMT's happy..

Never happened to me on Cerberus O_O

I've yet to see this either, but I suspect that is a server thing...

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Originally Posted by Kotemon

I've never noticed that before. However last night in WOD someone did advertise a FC before Dark Cloud.. But I'm taking their word for it being a wrong macro. As the first reply was " You do know that were all from different servers right?"

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Actually also happened to me recently... but was more like wtf a macro do i have on this bar... accidentally clicked it and spammed FC shout mid of Cloud of Darkness fight. Said sorry in alli chat and actually didnt remember it because we are atm happy with the size our Fc has not intending anytime soon.

Bout the topic... all I know are the posts mentioned... find it funny as my server is the one you can buy anything from almost all endgame guilds even savage D:
And some people thinking bout server transfers that make lvl 1 alts mby lvl to 10 and then decide.

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Originally Posted by Trixxy

Um, the guy advertising his carries does know that we're only allowed to transfer with a million gil, right? I doubt that's going to be enough to pay for a T9 + carry.

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Clear demi and allagan pieces OP... some also buy stuff off market that might sell better on new server.

They do that? Ive seen in in realm forums but never in game. I guess its possible they might find someone who is already looking to transfer to another server but seems like a waste of time. Maybe its a WoW thing since they have something like cross-realm guilds now.

Is it really more annoying than gold spam though? Think about it for a sec.... reeeeally? :rolleyes:

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Is it really more annoying than gold spam though? Think about it for a sec.... reeeeally? :rolleyes:

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Absolutely.

Gold sellers I have learned to ignore. they aren't drama causing.

They don't join your fc, then proceed to spam everyone in the fc with ads, forcing a kick, and deeply embarrassing our recruiter, causing drama.

I have had to spend more time dealing with this one incident, than with all the gil sellers combined...

Honestly, I place this kind of harassment on the same level as the FC robbers that have been propagating recently, that join random FC's, stay till they get promoted above applicant, rob everything they can access from the fc chest, then leave. we have had 4 of thiose recently on our server, and have had to make an "fc leader" LS, just to spread the info about them around.

I have never seen this happen before! I did click on a macro by accident on WoD at the last boss, I actually felt embarrassed lol

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Absolutely.

Gold sellers I have learned to ignore. they aren't drama causing.

They don't join your fc, then proceed to spam everyone in the fc with ads, forcing a kick, and deeply embarrassing our recruiter, causing drama.

I have had to spend more time dealing with this one incident, than with all the gil sellers combined...

Honestly, I place this kind of harassment on the same level as the FC robbers that have been propagating recently, that join random FC's, stay till they get promoted above applicant, rob everything they can access from the fc chest, then leave. we have had 4 of thiose recently on our server, and have had to make an "fc leader" LS, just to spread the info about them around.

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Can confirm the shadiness of Jenova.

The really just need to raise/lift the restriction on gil you can transfer. It does little to nothing to slow RMT, and causes significantly headaches for legitimate players. No, your server economy won't hurt if someone brings a few extra mil. It won't hurt if a few hundred people bring a few extra mil. What will hurt it is the sudden influx of thousands of market board fodder items that suddenly crash prices.

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Originally Posted by Werhusky

Clear demi and allagan pieces

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You guys constantly saying this do know that it's by and far one of the least viable ways to move gil, if not hands down the worst way to do so, right? I'm going to go out on a limb and say that those suggesting it have never actually done it.

To move 1,000,000 gil you would need:

100 platinum pieces
400 gold pieces
2,000 silver pieces
10,000 bronze pieces
40,000 tin pieces
5000 clear I
1000 clear II
200 clear III

Again, that is for one million gil. Even then, availability is so low that it would take months to get them, and you're going to be paying far more than their value at that. This is just not a thing that will never ever be feasible. Please stop suggesting it. Thanks!

You check the prices of materia and buy the ones that sell for more on the other server, that's it. People who are saying to buy vendor trash items have no idea what they're talking about.

Actually depends on the server. When I transferred recently I ended up going from a mid- populated server to a legacy server, there was very little on the new server that was selling for around the same price as on my old server and next to nothing selling for higher. I depended on npc-ables to move my Gil. No it's not ideal, but you guys are talking like it's the easiest thing to snatch up materia and sell it for more on the new server and it really depends on each server's economy and how stable it is, and how much competition is in your chosen market.

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Originally Posted by tocsin

You know what I dislike, more than any amount of RMT gil spam? Players deciding to make lvl 1 characters to advertise their FC's on other servers, to try and get people to transfer. and people on the forum doing the same.

No, I don't want to transfer to the JP datacenter. Stop asking.

That is all.

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why do you care? if you dont want to move, you dont have to. stop acting like a drama queen.

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Originally Posted by Ryu_Hayabusaa

why do you care? if you dont want to move, you dont have to. stop acting like a drama queen.

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if you bothered to read the rest of the thread, I said exactly why I dislike them. They caused drama, that forced me to have to deal with it. These arent RMT Bots, these are real players, who cause a hell of a lot mmore problems.

My purpose of making this thread, is to highlight just how invasive and harassing this kind of spam is, to attempt to discourage further players from thinking its a productive idea. its many, many times worse than RMT.

I've seen people advertise their FC in raid runs that are mixed servers such as WoD. I just find it amusing.

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Originally Posted by tocsin

if you bothered to read the rest of the thread, I said exactly why I dislike them. They caused drama, that forced me to have to deal with it. These arent RMT Bots, these are real players, who cause a hell of a lot mmore problems.

My purpose of making this thread, is to highlight just how invasive and harassing this kind of spam is, to attempt to discourage further players from thinking its a productive idea. its many, many times worse than RMT.

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lol you sound like a 5 year old school girl. "dont steal my friends" gtfo. no body cares about you not liking others trying to recruit more ppl. really alls im saying is, they are not cheating, they pay the monthly fee just like you. so why does what they do bother you? grow up.

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Originally Posted by Ryu_Hayabusaa

lol you sound like a 5 year old school girl. "dont steal my friends" gtfo. no body cares about you not liking others trying to recruit more ppl. really alls im saying is, they are not cheating, they pay the monthly fee just like you. so why does what they do bother you? grow up.

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People joining a fc, just to attempt to convince the members of the fc to transfer servers and join a different fc is pretty bad.
The same applies (but to a lesser degree) to those that create new characters on a server, in an attempt to essentially sell character transfers ("if you character transfer and join our fc, we'll give you a free run through X").

I don't think it's that much of a problem, because it's more likely that the fc would give itself a bad image. Keep the goings of the server, on that server.

But what I don't get, is you insulting the OP in such a manner. The OP finds such advertising annoying. Other people seem to agree, judging from the "likes". To claim that "nobody cares" is simply wrong. Why does it bother you that the OP is annoyed by something that is annoying?