Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[Yencat]

As far as I am aware, from the screenshots in the OP, these players received a verbal warning. All the GM was doing was informing players that the PF is for running content, and not social "venues" such as this. Furthermore, they suggested using fellowships as a more proper place.

◆ Warning
"Warning" is a penalty applied for minor violations for which a more severe penalty than a Caution is required. As with a Caution, depending on the nature of the violation, an instruction for improvement may be given with regard to the violation. Please follow any instructions.

All actions taken against a service account are recorded permanently. In the event of a player committing multiple violations, the previous violations and service account actions are taken into account.

https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...kid=68098&la=1

[Decoy_Wolff]

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[Legend-of-Mitsuki]

https://eu.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../blog/4680978/

I took the time to sum up my thoughts and feelings on the matter. There was so much though that I could not fit it into a forum post, so instead, I wrote a blog.

To summarise:

• There is a vast amount of (very undeserving in a lot of cases) prejudice towards roleplayers in FFXIV, and it is something that honestly needs to be addressed as best as possible.
• There appears to be significant inconsistency about the way that some of the GMs have handled things, and it is something that needs to be reviewed and addressed for the benefit of everyone involved.
• The methods of promotion for RP in-game are not sufficient and out-of-game cannot always be counted on as it isn’t always easy to find. We need a better solution.

[rance-sama]

We get it, an RP'er deeply hurt you somehow and you never quite got over it lmao

That's what I've been wondering, if these people who are really upset at RPers got their catgirl GF stolen by a Hroghtar or something.

[LittleImp]

By doing it in PM's

Which the vast majority are doing.

Be actually honest, how often do you see people publicly doing smut that isn't just trolling for attention? Because I can tell you, in my years of playing this game, I have seen it... One, and it was still somewhere more obscure anyways.

If people are publicly smutting, then yes, it'd violate 3.3. But if they aren't, and as I said vast majority are not, then they aren't violating 3.3 at all.

Edit:

And the continue since smooth brain just re-awoke and didn't put this...

These are not all erp related for the punishment. Even keep in mind, the GM stated advertising AT ALL is why, the type of content mentioned doesn't matter if it isn't content Square specifically created, according to the GM in the images. You can get the same smack for having one up for a coffee shop.

These policies specifically apply to all chat channels, PMs included.

"Offensive expressions are prohibited in all places where expressions can be made in Final Fantasy XIV, including chat (including Quick Chat and Emote), markers, comments and names. Use of an offensive expression in the form of a character name is also regarded as nuisance behaviour."

[KinDranex]

You're genuinely ill and need to get help.

I said the post that is circulating was reduced in size over the years because that version they dug up is harder to believe.
Here's the same process on that image lmao.

https://i.imgur.com/s7ZSyHN.png

Calling someone ill, eh? Anyway, learn how Jpeg artifacting works lmao

[Erza_Scarlets]

All those run sellers and all the accounts in their group should be perm banned with their garbage at top of the pt finder. They disrupt the pt finder lot more then stuff in other tab ever could. Abusing the pt finder to sell runs to make their post be at the top so its always in your face when you open pt finder is lot more annoying and disruptive then anything about rping or in the other tab.

Plus the game would be better without those run sellers anyways they abuse the system far more then anyone else. Pt finder was not made for advertising rmt by using wrong category to make it be at the top. There should be zero tolerance for those run sellers they aren't even putting their ads in the right category.

Rp stuff is almost always at the bottom and last on the list so its very rarely in way of any content that is marked with right tab. Unlike those run sellers that you see their ads right when you open pt finder the rp stuff is normally not there in your face when you open it. There is a lot of people that enjoy rping so let them do as they please its not like they are doing it in front of you or in your face. While those garbage run seller ads are in your face anytime you want to open the pt finder.

[Airyll]

These policies specifically apply to all chat channels, PMs included.

"Offensive expressions are prohibited in all places where expressions can be made in Final Fantasy XIV, including chat (including Quick Chat and Emote), markers, comments and names. Use of an offensive expression in the form of a character name is also regarded as nuisance behaviour."

If two people have consented to ERP in PMs with one another, then they aren't going to report one another for the supposed 3.3 ToS violations you absolutely insist they're making.

You're also broadly interpreting "chat" to mean "every single chat mode that has ever existed" but if that's the case: have you ever been in an FC? Did anybody in that FC ever swear? And did you do your Good Citizen Duty and report your FC mate for breaching 3.3 because of their foul language? (If you answer no to this question, you're a hypocrite.)

[FelisDarwin]

Calling someone ill, eh? Anyway, learn how Jpeg artifacting works lmao

No, no you see there's just no way that a jpg screenshot of an mp4 video capture could possibly have multiple types of compression artifacts. Literally impossible. Clearly everything in it is fake. Even the game is fake! People say they play FFXIV but every screenshot I see has compression artifacts! Can't be real!

[Jijifli]

These policies specifically apply to all chat channels, PMs included.

"Offensive expressions are prohibited in all places where expressions can be made in Final Fantasy XIV, including chat (including Quick Chat and Emote), markers, comments and names. Use of an offensive expression in the form of a character name is also regarded as nuisance behaviour."

So if two people are pming something that both are okay with, you still want action taken despite 0 people being affected in that way shape or form? And you want all forms of rp, not just private erp, to go away because of that?

I mean, you said so yourself...

You're genuinely ill and need to get help.