Party finder advertising

New rule made out by blizzard in WoW:

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Real money sales of in-game items or services, such as assistance with dungeons, raids, arenas, battlegrounds, etc., are prohibited.

The sale of items and services for gold is allowed, but their advertising must be carried out within the game world, for example, through the trading chat channel. We do not allow the placement of ads in the "Group Search" system. This system is designed to search for groups, and such announcements make it difficult to find groups that recruit players.

Accounts used solely for advertising purposes may be closed.

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How about FFXIV?

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Originally Posted by Vukimukinukiduki

New rule made out by blizzard in WoW:


How about FFXIV?

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Took them long enough. Less clutter in the Party Finder is never a bad thing so I'd be all for it.

I'd be for it. When I check the PF I usually see something like this

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...40/unknown.png

I only put people on my blacklist who keep advertising run sales on discord. I'm well over 100 people on there now so I'm gonna run out eventually (Worse when people use alts to do the same thing so my blacklist will fill up quickly)

Clutter? Blacklist works. I literally have no ads at all.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

Clutter? Blacklist works. I literally have no ads at all.

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I'm at about 110 people. Doesn't help when people do use alts/have others put up PFs for them with the same recruitment post AND same discord number/name. It's technically people getting around the blacklist system.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

Clutter? Blacklist works. I literally have no ads at all.

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Cool story. It's still an issue that some wouldn't mind seeing addressed.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

Cool story. It's still an issue that some wouldn't mind seeing addressed.

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Cooler story. It isn't worth any resources to get addressed.

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Originally Posted by Reap00

Cooler story. It isn't worth any resources to get addressed.

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It is. The less advertising in game the less money those people make. They probably don't even file it on their taxes as income. Bunch of tax dodgers.

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Originally Posted by Bacent

I'm at about 110 people. Doesn't help when people do use alts/have others put up PFs for them with the same recruitment post AND same discord number/name. It's technically people getting around the blacklist system.

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My blacklist is around 150-160, but that was from ARR and HW when RMT spammers were out in full force. I just never bothered to clean it up. lol That was a rough time. Couldn't play for more than a minute without being spammed with /tells at least 2-3 times. Like a lot of people back then I resorted to turning on /busy status. There was no other way. The day that added the right click > report RMT function they went back into their holes and spammed capital cities only, where they are reported endlessly.

You can report anyone who is obviously using it for RMT purposes--i.e. people selling clears and artwork this way, but they're usually also very careful to avoid language that sounds like RMT, so it's kind of pointless unless SE clarifies the purpose of Party Finder more and outright prohibits any kind of real-world services in-game whatsoever.

I too think that is a great idea for the FFXIV devs to use in the future. Less of the same words along the lines of "discord" and "selling", the better IMO. Though I did enjoy mounting the names of those discord seller players on my blacklist walls [as then Crown Prince Varis yae Galvus would have put my feelings into words.]

I'm blacklisting 2-3 PF run sellers every single day at this point. It's becoming a bigger and bigger problem and SE is going to have to address it sooner or later. My blacklist is already full and I am being forced to remove people from the front of the list to make room for the accelerating amount of PF sellers popping up recently. And simply saying "blacklist and move on" as the solution to every single inappropriate player is not a valid solution with such a small blacklist limit. The purpose of the blacklist was only ever meant to be a last resort for removing the most egregious of disrespectful players when no other avenue of addressing their behavior was working. It should not and cannot be the catch-all solution to all bad player behavior.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

My blacklist is around 150-160, but that was from ARR and HW when RMT spammers were out in full force. I just never bothered to clean it up. lol That was a rough time. Couldn't play for more than a minute without being spammed with /tells at least 2-3 times. Like a lot of people back then I resorted to turning on /busy status. There was no other way. The day that added the right click > report RMT function they went back into their holes and spammed capital cities only, where they are reported endlessly.

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My blacklist got fully wiped when I went from Cerberus to Odin (Like 1-2 months before 5.0 launch). Only time I added anyone was with the run sellers in the PF and the fact it's getting nearly 50% of the PFs at any one time are from people doing sales for runs in game.

Let’s action 18+ brothel ads in the t-rated game while we’re at it.