Quote Originally Posted by Zeonsilt View Post
Not really, the main point is that those "advertisements" promotes RMT. Square Enix does not gain anything from this also.
By the same logic crafters who are offering services, people who are selling high-priced items outside of the marketboard or even highpriced items on the marketboard itself are "promoting" RMT because they all create a theoritical incentive to buy gil.
Sorry, the whole "it promotes RMT" sounds like an excuse to get rid of something you dislike, not so much as legit concern...

I agree with ErryK here: This thread (aswell as the other one about mislabeling PFs) seems to be very much targeted against clear-selling or advertisments for that specifically - for no other real reason than people not liking clear-sells if though they dont have to like them and can just ignore them.

IF the PF would be come totally unfunctional because of mislabeled PFs this might be a relevant topic. But as far as I can tell thats not the case. In order for PF to be totally unfunctional you'd need situations were 9 out of 10 PFs would be for something completly different and people unable to find/join/create groups. We're far, far, far from that and personally I dont see the risk of us getting there.
As it stands now there are PFs you want to join and those that you dont want to join - in one of my last posts I illustrated that out of 15 Shinryu PFs 2 were intresting for me. Perfectly normal and fine. And if I have to scroll through 13 or 14 PFs that are useless for me (personally) really doesnt matter.