Selling Runs and Clears

[BillyKaplan]

i once asked the price of a wolf , lakshmi or susana i dont remember ( the white one ) , the price announced was 70M ..... i thought it was a joke , but it seems people are ok to pay this price ....poor humanity
seriously i expected something like 5M , but even the leviathan poney is more expensive ( 12M LOL )
sweet jesus for 70M you have a big house .....

You're asking 7 people to run up to 99 runs of content you are admitting you cannot clear yourself. Think about that for a moment when assuming a price.

[KittyPr]

You're asking 7 people to run up to 99 runs of content you are admitting you cannot clear yourself. Think about that for a moment when assuming a price.

doesnt it drop ??? i mean the wolf , not tokens

[BillyKaplan]

doesnt it drop ??? i mean the wolf , not tokens

It's not a guaranteed drop, that's why they even put the 99 tokens = mount failsafe system in

[SerLuke]

Sorry to bump an old thread I did a search and this was the most relevant/recent thread I could find to post this is.

For me, the issue isn't so much that clears are being sold for gil, its the way they are being being advertised, I like to go through PF to help people clear content, yet everyday I'll see listings under Ex Roulette, Lakshmi, etc. with people selling Omega Savage or even Ultimate Coils. What also bugs me a bit is a lot of these clears aren't clicking the "Recruit members across world server" option so I see people selling from different servers selling clears(and telling people to contact them on Discord) which makes me think maybe they are selling clears for real money and not just gil(plus some are selling Ulitmate coil which is super shady cause there is no way that can be done with 7 people). In any event it would great if there was some way to at least to get people to stop abusing PF(by mis-listing or not clicking server only) to sell clears.

[Doki]

Honestly it isn't worth the insane pricetag for a clear. You can pay...50M for a mount, more for weapons, or just wait 6 months to a year and clear it with a PUG.

[Okamimaru]

God I wish I had the gil to pay for a decent group to help clear some of the upper tier content... not because I'm bad or lazy but because I just keep getting bad parties ... I'd pay for competence...

[BigRed5392]

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mercenary work has been apart of online games since the invent of multi-user dungeons or MUD for short

its not so much for desperation, but more for those who main enjoyment isn't combat. their main enjoyment is crafting or gather. stuff that you can make tons of money on. they still need to keep up their combat jobs because SE likes to block expacs/areas/mats behind combat walls.

[Ghishlain]

I personally wouldn't purchase any mercenary runs but I'm not surprised that there are others who would do it. If it's their prerogative and how they wish to play the game, I don't see any issue with that. There are players who want a piece of gear to glamour, a mount, or even a title but don't have the time to dedicate to PuG'ing or statics - so the option to buy these pieces of content is useful for them. There's obviously a market, that market has been around since the beginning of the game when Titan HM runs were sold for relic reaction, and those runs will continue to be sold until this MMO dies.

In terms of equating RMT to clear seller / buying - I don't doubt that there are some people who buy Gil to purchase these clears but broadly generalizing all clear buyers as RMT purchasers shows a level of ignorance that is rather unbecoming. I know for a fact I made enough Gil to buy a Medium house in the 2.X era within the spam of two months due to retainer ventures, desynthing, and converting crafting / gathering materia while doing Beastman dailies. If I can casually generate that much Gil in 8 weeks with minimal effort, any serious Gil maker can do that in probably 1-2 weeks without using RMT.

[Kanitezz]

Carrying friends or FC mates in content they can't clear on their own - a ok.

Carrying strangers for compensation - lets make a thread.

Its got to be because being logically consistent is just so inconvenient nowadays, right?

I was voicing my POV.