FFXIV Male/Female Brothel/Harem??

[basketofseals]

I'm surprised this game has a T rating considering how often people get brutally murdered. I know there's no like explicit gore or anything, but it's still PRETTY bad even implied.

[Atoli]

So was Final Fantasy VII in a lot of countries including my own. Actually your most really reminds me that things were a lot more lax back then compared to now, why can't we go back? :c

The Honeybee Inn was never "used" though. Yes ofc everyone knew what kind of place it was, but the player never went there on..."official business"
But that's exactly what the OP is requesting. It's not about the existence of prostitution as a vague idea in the game (because we already have that! plenty of it, to be exact), it's about being able to use "their services".

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Like I said, you are by all means free to ERP as much as you want in the privacy of your own instanced space and private chat.
Nothing wrong with sentient adults doing whatever they want with each other
But it's a completely different story when you expect the GAME to include that. Because it is NOT a matter of "if you don't like it, just don't enter".
If it is included in the game, it will change 1. the rating and 2. the press coverage of the ENTIRE game.
Remember when GTA included a torture scene? You didn't even have to pick said protagonist and play through that scene, but that's basically all the game got reduced to.
I don't want people to think of FFXIV as the game for all the sad existences who need video game booty because they can't get the real deal.
I also don't want the game's age rating to go up either. And all of that doesn't even touch on the subject yet of how much of a problematic subject prostitution in general is...

On a different note, I do like your idea about a business that lets players work "normal" jobs for a bit! Seems interesting and amusing, mostly made me think of the part-time work in Pokemon X/Y.
There is absolutely no reason though why it can't be a normal inn instead of a brothel.
Weaving bedsheets, cooking food and beating up costumers who refuse to pay can all be done without the need to bring prostitution into the mix..

[KitriaLuon]

You should move to Balmung. We're - unfortunately - plagued by 'brothel' role-play and it is far from the tasteful sort. A simple look at the search info of players lingering in Ul'dah's Adventurer's Guild will betray why.

Y'know I heard so many great things about Balmung, I can't help but see what's all the fuss about. Then I'll immediately regret it. Or not, hmm...

Regardless, as passionate and interesting your suggestion is, I honestly can't imagine SE officially condoning the avocation of such player activity. It'll be projecting a market that SE isn't necessarily seeking and subsequently, potentially driving off much more wanted ones. While FFXIV sure likes to advertise as, "Your Fantasy come to Life!" It's more like, "Adventure! And more Adventure!" What am I saying, is literally what their website says.

It's not about the ratings and what they're for, as ratings are done by a third-party company and merely to suggest what age is suitable for the content of the product. Making it subjective. Not all developers aspire to attain a certain rating, some just happen because it just is, (Arkham Knight. Ala.,) Some developers like to attain a lower rating to open up a broader spectrum of audiences, but that's not necessarily saying their designing around those ages. Sometimes, all it takes is to remove blood to make a M game to a T game. (Total War series.)

Players are free to play the game to their discretion, to however they wish. But it's SE's discretion to develop content to whatever desire market they wish to appeal, and that market is not sexy fun time, it's I wanna punch Cthulhu in the face.

[Eldevern]

Hum... means they should work on collisions, currently, it looks weird, even considering to go through

[Aivi_lo]

humm now i want to make an alt on balmung just to listen to uldah shout chat :P

Me too lol

[RubyCirha]

This game has a red light district it's called the ruby road exchange complete with exotic dancers

[myahele]

I'm surprised this game has a T rating considering how often people get brutally murdered. I know there's no like explicit gore or anything, but it's still PRETTY bad even implied.

Not just gore, but kidnapping, slavery, willing and forced prostitution, drug addiction, human sacrifice, necrophilia, cannibalism ... the list goes on.

[MistyMew]

/backs out of thread slowly....... ಠ_ಠ

[hydralus]

Balmung already has a dozen courtesan groups and free companies that provide such services. Hell there was a FC just tonight advertising their strip club in party finder. That's not uncommon at all.

[Rin_Sato]

Could just add an ERP status(available to those of some age?)
ps please add an RP mentor status