Quote Originally Posted by Faafetai View Post
Wait...you are not allowed to offer service for gil in party finder? I thought that was okay as long as it is not a real money transaction. People advertise to pay for clears and sell other things in game for gil transactions. I swore it was allowed as long as it is not real money.

I found it oh my gosh I forgot about that in the wall of text that is the tos. You can not advertise to get paid to give someone a clear but THEY can advertise to give you money for clear. My mind is officially blown at how weird this is. How....what they are literally both the same thing and this is common in many mmos. Unless scamming is an issue but if that is the case I swore there was something in the tos about altering the deal when making a contract with a player to give them gil for service. You can get action taken if you do not pay up or do not fufill the contract. That I did remember.
Yup; used to be ok and from YoshiP's interviews he is (was?) more or less fine with it personally..the problem is too many bad apples putting up ads and then using it for real money trade...so the call was to ban all "Mercenary Work" services entirely. It is 100% ok to offer to pay for services though.