People selling runs, why not talking about it ?

[PArcher]

The fact that wanting to be carried may well be the most common reason for buying runs doesn't eliminate the fact that the second most common reason is wanting a chance to do the run properly yourself when you can't find 7 other people who also want to do it.

People in that second group, those who want to actually experience the game as it was meant to be played, get berated by those selling runs for not wanting a carry, at the same time as they get vilified by everyone else for the exact opposite, claiming they need a carry (which they neither need nor want).

(I haven't bought any runs, but only because I can't afford to. If I had enough gil to do so, I would be quite willing to buy runs from anyone who would let me genuinely run them.)

See, the problem with the 'second group' is they are paying to be carried, not to experience a run with a good group "as it was meant to be played". Lot of groups would still insist that the person being carried, regardless of their skill or fight knowledge, to not participate in the fight to ensure the run went as smoothly as possible (because no one wants to be wiping to something that should have been 1-shot).

Also, from my experience, people wanting to just play with good players is not as common as you think; when I used to be on sell runs we sold a lot more to people looking for specific drops (and/or tokens after HW) than people just looking for a clear, and people buying to play with good people was basically non-existent.