Should this be bannable/reportable?

[Sartaj]

Mercing is against ToS in FFXI now, people get actively banned for FC parties. I wouldn't be surprised if this transfered to FFXIV at some point.

That is pretty weak on SE's part. Players should be allowed to make money any way they can, so long as it's not using some method of scamming. I don't see anything wrong selling runs. A group of good raiders who are just farming at this point while they wait for new content want to make some extra gil. Some guy with gil wants to get an easy run because he is lazy or has other circumstances concerning it. Two groups with a common interest meet and an exchange is occurred.

This is nothing more than the selling of a service that is ongoing in many games - and please everyone spare me the whole "this is ff14 not other games!" argument. The selling of the service can hardly be considered much different than the selling of a product.

The way I see it, the main, vocal people against the selling of runs are either too poor to afford it, and thus jealousy is making them whine. Or the gold sellers are aggravating them to a point they are trying to blame anything and everything for it. The gold sellers aren't going to disappear with this. And for the record, I don't buy runs with gil nor do I plan to. But just because I don't have an interest in it doesn't mean I see it as something wrong. In terms of money making and "game morals", it's far from wrong. And if Square were to make this an actual offence, they'd just be making another amateur move by listening to a vocal minority.

There are plenty of things to whine about in this game that are much more important than better players trying to sell a service, lads.