Party Finder Abused - allowed?

[Reyvenscar]

Mercenaries group are nothing new, there are quite some people who are willing to buy runs.
It set to high ilvl so people would just /tell them instead and usually already have a party waiting to run as soon as they get a customer.
Honestly this doesn't affect you at all @ "Greedy people always destroy and abuse fun parts of the game."
The number of buyers are too few to "ruin the fun" for you.

[HakuroDK]

The only way this would be an actual abuse would be if they charged real life money for clears.

Is this ethical? No. But is it legal as it pertains to the ToS? Absolutely.

[DeadRiser]

Lol sadly majority of the party finder "parties" are people advertising carries in Turn 9, carries in Shiva, trying to sell crap, or advertising themselves for a new static.

It doesn't bother me that this happens, but if you look from the point of a new person... that party finder crap just looks ugly when all you see is ^^^^^

[Dyvid]

As you can see in the below screenshot - people start to abuse party finder.
They put a ILVL item that is not ever possible (so the party never fillsup and they stay always there for 1 hour) and their message is nothing to do with finding parties.

The only advertise they accept Money to clear content for you. Can we report these things? Greedy people always destroy and abuse fun parts of the game.

Link : http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/alxn.jpg/

It's not against TOA so it's not abuse. Whether you like it or not it's been a thing since launch.

[jars]

how is this abuse? how does this affect you in any way?

[Kyros]

Just report and let the GMs decide it.
GMs know it better than forum readers.

Of course GM's know better, this is why they don't ban people over such a petty thing.

You are, on the other hand, wasting a GM's time on trivial matters, which is by far a worse thing to do.

Honestly, it should be reportable. Don't know if it is a legit reason though.

If you can't even find a reason why it might be reportable, what does it say about the issue?

[Sparktacus]

What the, this has been going on since launch with Titan HM, and it has never been a problem. If you don't want to pay for a carry dont talk to them, simple. I fail to see how this would disrupt anyone's experience in any way.

[dayspring83]

Why does it cry?

Logged in just to give this a 'like' because this is hilarious.

Also, don't see what the big deal is. They're selling Coil runs for gil. Not my cup of tea, but its not bothering anyone. Move on, mate.

[WinterSolstice]

Oh look, another one of these threads.

First, they are not using the PF for a bad purpose. Just because you don't like it doesn't make it bad. They are not name-shaming or doing anything against the TOS. As such, they are not misusing it either. Please point me to the rigid set of rules applied to the Party Finder all you guys seem to know about, I would like to see this.

I suggest you guys get thicker skin - just because you dislike it doesn't mean it isn't allowed. The fact that you report somebody for something that isn't wrong by the games TOS or rules in general is idiotic. How about you stop flooding the GMs with your nonsense and let them deal with issues of actual abuse.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

The thread is over half a year old. I doubt the OP is reading this or cares anymore.