Hello, I recently ran into a member who was charging party members substantial amounts of gold to run a dungeon with him or her. Once inside the dungeon, he or she demanded us to pay them upwards to four gold for each party member, they went on to state there time wasn’t free. Once we started the dungeon he or she kept pressing the issue wanting four gold from each member that joined the party and of course none of us paid the fee, and he or she refused to run the dungeon and kicked us from the group. This happened to several groups this person created that evening, I reported them for both scamming, and abusing the LFG feature. I just wanted to mention this on the forum, for those members who are not aware because I was asked afterwards, “were we required to pay a party leader to run a dungeon?” by players who were very new to the MMO type gaming environment. I assured them this player was in the wrong, and not to ever pay anything whether its gold or any of forum of currency to anyone outside of the market place.
If this isn’t against the rules, it should be in my opinion. The Dungeon party or LFG feature isn’t a market place, it allows members to group up depending on skill and time (certain groups for certain events) No one should be charging members for gold or anything else to join a group, everyone is equal in the game and no matter your level it’s really all about how you approach the scenario whether or not you will survive the in game encounter.
If my reports were in the wrong, I apologize but I have never encountered this in a game where a member was allowed to charge other members for their time. It certainly doesn’t happen in the other MMO’s I’m involved in, sure you can state a member needs a certain item and allow that person to have it in a party, but other than that it’s really just about the overall group gaming experience.
Path/dungeon selling isn’t against the rules, but neither is it supported. If the seller was open about selling the dungeon run, then I would say read the LFG more carefully, until the policy on dungeon selling changes.
If the seller did not advert that the LFG was a dungeon run, I would feel that was against policy, as that player was extorting the party. In that case, the reports were warranted.
Thank you for the reply, I don’t think it was clear enough in the opening join.
However that may be up for debate by others. I’ll read over the LFG rules and info once more, and to be clear I discussed this with my guild afterward and was advised on how to handle it next time. Which is where the questioning came from, it wasn’t exactly do I pay? It’s can they do this and it not be against the rules and is it supported. Now I know it’s not but it’s not exactly breaking said rules either. I still think it’s wrong but thank you for the information. Hopefully I won’t be in trouble for reporting them.