Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[PikoAliapoh]

Seems there are two separate issues here:

1. Using PF for RP advertising.

2. Whether the content and type of RP being publicly advertised is appropriate or not.

Not going to address the second debate, because that's tangential to the original point of this thread and the OP's post.

The idea that RPers should use Fellowships for advertising open RP venues just doesn't serve the same function that PF serves. If a group of RPers opens their establishment to the public for a specific span of time, say 5-8pm on a given night. They aren't going to be able to advertise that in Fellowships where interested people can find them to come for one night for a specific period of time.

As far as I've seen, Fellowships are more for creating permanent social networks that can be checked in on. That's great if you already have an established group of RPers who might check in on it to come to your establishment. But that just doesn't work for deciding "Hey, we're open tonight! People are welcome to come and RP!" and putting that message out there to any random player on the server who might be looking for RP and interested in coming.

At the end of the day, this is just going to push people away from using XIV's in-game features, and push RPers to move to Discord and other platforms to organize and advertise their events.

It's a shame that an mmoRPg is punishing its own community for RPing.

[GaleMex]

It's a shame that an mmoRPg is punishing its own community for RPing.

I don't think anyone really gives a hoot about RPers and RPing. If you're so deeply bothered by their existence, you need to reorganize your priorities. I think the takeaway was adult-oriented (or, as some people in this thread like to fling around, ERP) roleplaying. To some extent I agree why someone would be heated about ERP in a rated T game that likely has a significant amount of teenagers playing them. Anti-ERP, even if I don't fully agree with it, is a much different stance than an anti-RP stance.

[PikoAliapoh]

I don't think anyone really gives a hoot about RPers and RPing. If you're so deeply bothered by their existence, you need to reorganize your priorities. I think the takeaway was adult-oriented (or, as some people in this thread like to fling around, ERP) roleplaying. To some extent I agree why someone would be heated about ERP in a rated T game that likely has a significant amount of teenagers playing them. Anti-ERP, even if I don't fully agree with it, is a much different stance than an anti-RP stance.

Again, that's tangential to the OP and point of this thread. People talking about E-RP instead of the issue brought up in the OP are just trolling.

[Saefinn]

I don't think anyone really gives a hoot about RPers and RPing. If you're so deeply bothered by their existence, you need to reorganize your priorities. I think the takeaway was adult-oriented (or, as some people in this thread like to fling around, ERP) roleplaying. To some extent I agree why someone would be heated about ERP in a rated T game that likely has a significant amount of teenagers playing them. Anti-ERP, even if I don't fully agree with it, is a much different stance than an anti-RP stance.

If we go back to the OP though, we're not even specifically looking at ERP, but people advertising venues and social events for RP. Somebody later suggested of those that were given warnings 3 were NSFW and 2 were SFW. Meaning it's not about the ERP, but people seem to assume it's about the ERP.

Heck, a later screenshot shows a GM suggesting it's fine to use the PF for ERP but to keep the ERP private like in a party.

I think the main confusion is that what the OP highlights doesn't seem to at all be against the ToS and doesn't seem to contradict the stated us of the PF. My thought is it's a GM getting it wrong as it seems to be the same every time rather than official stance. But if it is an official stance, then well, they should define it and I guess there would be a demand for something alternative that works and Fellowship Finder is not a viable alternative.

[youne]

The idea that RPers should use Fellowships for advertising open RP venues just doesn't serve the same function that PF serves. If a group of RPers opens their establishment to the public for a specific span of time, say 5-8pm on a given night. They aren't going to be able to advertise that in Fellowships where interested people can find them to come for one night for a specific period of time.

As far as I've seen, Fellowships are more for creating permanent social networks that can be checked in on. That's great if you already have an established group of RPers who might check in on it to come to your establishment. But that just doesn't work for deciding "Hey, we're open tonight! People are welcome to come and RP!" and putting that message out there to any random player on the server who might be looking for RP and interested in coming.

This is something I commented on earlier and another reason it's likely that these warning are by a sole GM misunderstanding. If you're unfamiliar with rp, perhaps you wouldn't realize that these are venues that are advertising now because they are doing an activity now. Which is exactly what the PF is for.