It sucks that people are ruining the community like this

[KamikazeMan]

Last night I went into duty finder for some Ifrit Extreme practice. After a few tries and watching a video on the fight, I felt pretty ready to take Ifrit down....but why did we fail? Somebody (a healer) joined duty finder to purposely sabotage the runs and promote selling carries. A fellow FC member joined me on the run in DF and jokingly asked where he could buy carries from and the guy who kept getting us killed told us that his FC sells runs for about 3.4 million gil. I think he knew we were on the same server that he was on, for some reason. Maybe he looked us up on Lodestone and commenced to ruin the run? idk

I laughed and thought he was joking around, but I didn't realize it till later that night that he wasn't. I started a Party Finder group and he joined a few times. He would leave after a few tries, go into an instance (im guessing somebody else's party), and jump back into our party after a while. The heals were terrible and the tank noticed that this guy wasn't healing as well as he should be. When we mentioned the heals were bad, he "picked up the slack" and healed us the way he should. And things went really well! No deaths and nobody was getting hit. However, after the big nail phase, he purposely ran into us with that debuff that Ifrit casts on healers right after the big nail exploded and didn't really bother to recover from it....which he could have easily done so.

I get that he's desperate to make gil, but why waste people's time doing so? Is this a common thing in MMOs? ARR is the only MMO I ever really got into, so I wouldn't know. Have any of you experienced this kind of behavior?