Party Finder Misuse - Social/General Finder Needed

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Firstly, there's no such thing as an auction house. Second, PF is the only way I can sell the use of my rare dyes towards someone who wants their gear in those colors. You can't use the marketboard for untradeable items.

[Risvertasashi]

Woah, I think your avatar is glitched. :P

It... looks fine to me? What do you see? o.o

[StouterTaru]

It... looks fine to me? What do you see? o.o

Looks like a white background while everyone else has blue, I'm guessing it's a bridal head piece and not the background.

[LineageRazor]

OP's complaint is pretty much valid. Party Finder is meant to, you know, find parties. Advertisers have no intention of forming a party, and aren't engaging in any kind of activity that requries a party. They're just as happy to sell you their product or get you into their Free Company out of party as in. They are using Party Finder as an advertising bulletin board, which was very likely never its intent.

I never go to the Party Finder with intent of looking for sales. I doubt that anyone does. When I want to buy something, I go to the marketboards. Ads in the Party Finder clutter and obscure the listings of the things I'm actually interested in.

That said, there ARE things that need to be advertised for which the Marketboards are of no use. For instance, if you want to sell Metallic Gold Dye, the only way to do so is indirectly, by dying an item for a customer. If you just drop a Gold Dyed loincloth on the marketboards for ten times the cost of a regular loincloth, chances are no one will ever look closely enough to see that it is dyed Gold. Free Company adverts, too, are not something you can post on the marketboards. Right now, the only outlets for this kind of advertising are Party Finder or /shouts - and, honestly, /shouts are quite possibly even more annoying than the Party Finder.

Perhaps a good solution would be to enhance Party Finder's filtering options, so if you want to look for an actual party you can hide all the clutter - and then, severely punish any advertiser who tries to "cheat" the system by disguising their advert as an actual party.

TITAN EX PONY FARM!!!
Selling all 4-star crafts! No, I'm not really doing Titan, stop asking, jeez some people. Just buy my stuff, okay?

[Risvertasashi]

Looks like a white background while everyone else has blue, I'm guessing it's a bridal head piece and not the background.

Can you give me a screenshot and, if you're savvy with your browser, the image path? (For firefox, right click > view image info). It sounds like I need to make a bug report...

[StouterTaru]

Can you give me a screenshot and, if you're savvy with your browser, the image path? (For firefox, right click > view image info). It sounds like I need to make a bug report...

[Kaze3434]

OP's complaint is pretty much valid. pretty bad ideas here

going to say it again, but party finder is for a person(or group of people) to get together and do X thing. what that X is is up to them. as for the "I never go to the Party Finder with intent of looking for sales" part, a good portion of the crafting friends i know sell on both the market board and use party finder. also, really? punish people for using PF "wrong"? who gets to decide how i use it besides myself?(and SE, but thats another thing entirely).

[Kietsu]

They should add additional flags and filters for things like 'hunt' or 'trade' or 'scrub carry'. They can't throw the 'limited dataaaaa' excuse at this, such a thing would take up four bits of memory for four more flags - unless my theory is correct and every single thing in FFXIV is stored in 64-bit floating points.

[Risvertasashi]

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I didn't see the issue since you gave me the same path... XD But I opened it on another browser and saw the problem there. Bug report submitted. Thanks!

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Until Square speaks up, people are free to use the PF for whatever the hell they want.