False advertising in PF should be reportable

[Sigma-Astra]

Players literally will complain about just about anything in XIV....it is literally not harming you to ignore the listings, but people don't always read the PF listings fully either I've noticed over the years.

If they did, I wouldn't have gotten people in my Tsukiyomi EX runs asking what strategy was being used when it was clearly in the PF description.

That's annoying.

[Kinetic-duet]

I think it would make it more difficult for legitimate roulette PFs to fill. It defeats the purpose of the party finder when things are intentionally mislabled. I blacklist the ones I can, as they are not the sort of people I would want to party with. There's an "other" category for a reason.

[RiyahArp]

I wasnt talking so much about the run-selling itself here, but about the advertisments in PF that are listed somewhat wrong.
Is that really hurting you?

Runselling though is one of the uses of that. There's also stuff like people using it to advertise their twitch streams or other things. Its not annoying or hurting much because not many people do it. But for runselling, yeah, they do need to do something about that.

[Azper]

I think it would make it more difficult for legitimate roulette PFs to fill. It defeats the purpose of the party finder when things are intentionally mislabled. I blacklist the ones I can, as they are not the sort of people I would want to party with. There's an "other" category for a reason.

Building on this a bit, it'd be nice if people we blacklisted were removed from our PF view instead of just grayed out.

[LauraAdalena]

I feel like this should be true but only under these specific circumstances:

A. Something is Min ilvl and not marked or stated as such
B. Different instance than what's said.
C. When they leave a slot open for all roles and then get upset when you aren't that role.
D. Lootmaster/Greed Only when not advertised as such.
E. Kicking New/Players with clears when they didn't mark that to keep those players out.

That's it. No "Oh, they're advertising for FCs/Twitch Streams/Whatever on their descriptions." of course they are. People intentionally make the ilvl impossible to make it stand out, usually. They are minor and not hurting anybody in the only thing they are doing is taking up a space on the PF, a place where most people are looking and scanning carefully to make sure things are perfect. My only complaint is when they say they want something but don't explicitly use the indicators that PF provides to say what they are looking for and shame you for not knowing better/confuse you by advertising the instance improperly.

[RokkuEkkusu]

Building on this a bit, it'd be nice if people we blacklisted were removed from our PF view instead of just grayed out.

This is the best post in this thread.

However, if blacklisted people can't be removed from our immediate PF view for whatever reason the devs bring up, they should at least program Party Finder to where the parties of the blacklisted people get moved to the end section of the list where the locked duties are.

[Lukha]

You're free to report anyone for anything, so long as you're willing to take the risk that a GM will laugh at it or maybe even reprimand you for wasting their time with frivolous reports if you do it too much.

That said, people advertising selling runs for real money most likely fall under the category of reasonable to report.

[Penthea]

Well the recruits for FCs should honestly have their own page.

FCs or statics advertising for recruitment is a symptom of something missing in the game. There should be some sort of tool for advertising and searching for teams and fcs in the game. And it should be cross-realm within the data centre. A lot of people do transfer if something sounds good enough.

[hynaku]

There is other in party finder that they can put there adds. They should be able to be reported for listing them in wrong place and not in other. They should also make it illegal to sell runs. How you know there not selling them for real money those runs.

[alimdia]

There is other in party finder that they can put there adds. They should be able to be reported for listing them in wrong place and not in other. They should also make it illegal to sell runs. How you know there not selling them for real money those runs.

People don't use "other" because "other" appears at the bottom of the list, move it to the top and people will start using it.

Saying something should be reportable is saying people should be banned for something as silly as putting a PF ad in the wrong place. Do you really think that's a bannable offense? That's a bit of a disproportionate response to something largely harmless. On run sales, I believe GMs operate under "innocent until proven guilty", they don't assume the absolute worst scenario and start banning people without proof.