Quote Originally Posted by Mercutial View Post
Dear Lord yes... have you ever tried "farming" content with individuals you know for a fact bought their clears? FCOB farm parties are littered with these individuals and many suffer as a result.

The OP is specifically asking about kill selling. Just because you've experience of players who're bad in FCOB, doesn't mean that they paid for their clears of T9, some could have been carried without paying, others might have even contributed to the fight but spent large portions of it dead. There are any number of reasons why someone's terrible in FCOB, it doesn't automatically mean that they paid for T9 or T5. For the record, I know a few people that are good at T13 and have kills, but they're fairly bad at T9.

A lot of people that buy, are buying specific drops, in part because their own friends aren't willing to do 8 T9 kills or 15 Shiva Extreme kills for a specific item of loot, or because they keep losing the rolls to other people, which is where kill selling groups come in. At the end of the day, most gil is useless in this game, it only buys crafted items which can be worthwhile in some cases, but aren't essential, other than that, you don't need as much gil as can be made from various daily & weekly tasks, so why not spend it on a specific loot item?

The only real negative aspects of kill selling, is that it can lead to more demand for RMT, which in turn leads to more RMT advertising spam. And from my observations, the other negative aspect comes from people who're strongly against kill selling claiming it's unethical or immoral, and how these people like to act morally superior with the way they treat people that do kill sell.