Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[Nayout]

I may not support ERP, but not all RP is ERP and that's a distinction that you need to make instead of making such blanket generalizations about what our subset of the community is all about. And even if there *is* ERP in the game, it's their business what they do with their time. Everyone likes to throw around the phrase "You don't pay my sub" so casually, so it can be easily applied here. You don't pay their sub, so who cares if they want to indulge in erotic roleplay? How does it hurt you? How does it adversely affect your XIV experience? The answer: It doesn't. It's doing nothing to harm the community even if you think it's cringey or inappropriate. It's not violating any legal issues or anything regarding illegal transactions of real world money, the buying and selling of accounts, or anything that falls under the category of what we're reporting when we use the "Report RMT Activity" function on our chat bar.

People can do everything they want in the game as long as they don't break the ToS and the ERP unfortunately is something that breaks it, now you can do it privately with your friend or partner or have a place where several people get together and do it but ALWAYS it has to be done secretly and this is what has generated a problem. Many people who do ERP ignore that but promote it to people who do not care or in places that should not.

I also have to remember the live letter that Yoshida dedicated to the RP / ERP community?

[SylviaKarsten]

People can do everything they want in the game as long as they don't break the ToS and the ERP unfortunately is something that breaks it, now you can do it privately with your friend or partner or have a place where several people get together and do it but ALWAYS it has to be done secretly and this is what has generated a problem. Many people who do ERP ignore that but promote it to people who do not care or in places that should not.

I also have to remember the live letter that Yoshida dedicated to the RP / ERP community?

I wasn't playing at the time, I'd imagine. I can't say I ever saw that.

I'm not trying to defend the ERP community as being so much permissible in regards to the ToS, because if it breaks the ToS then it breaks the ToS; that's what GMs should be enforcing but it's the people that are calling for the heads of every RPer with their torches and pitchforks, basically. Just whipping up people into a mob mentality to attack us all like we're all somehow part of the "problem."

I'm just saying that ERP isn't hurting other players the way they're making it sound. Someone is getting upset because they scroll to the bottom of party finder and see an ERP venue, and are morally outraged by it. If they want to report it because it violates ToS, fine! That's well within their rights to do so, but you cannot lump every RPer into the same category as those who violate ToS by indulging in ERP.