Quote Originally Posted by Izanagi_Fiaresu View Post
I've seen a lot of "but the minors" post.

How many people under the age of 18 even play this game? We have an older playerbase. Young people do not play MMos anymore this isn't 2008-2014. A good 99% of people who play XIV are over 18
While I think a lot of "think of the children" posts are disingenuous, this really isn't the way to argue that. And as someone who ran a Dungeons & Dragons chat and was a part of the storyteller team of a World of Darkness chat, that had rules that required you to be 18+ to make a character and play there... And I know for a fact there were minors there.

Quote Originally Posted by Sarevok_Thordin View Post
Reminder there is literal pole dancing going on in Eulmore.
And presented in a way that is still PG-13.



Quote Originally Posted by JanVanding View Post
The roleplaying community on Aether at least is extremely closely knit so I can say these discussions are absolutely taking place and the adult venue Runners are mostly taking actions to ensure age verification is in place and that PF advertising is kept clean.

There will always be venues that ignore the advice and still break the TOS, they are in the minority and if they happen to get busted, they will only have themselves to blame.
On Primal, we don't really have that unity, sadly. Not for the lack of trying, either. It's more that some of the brothels don't really seem to care about role-playing as a whole.

Quote Originally Posted by kinglyonheart View Post
y'all flagging this stuff as 18+ is literally trying to keep minors out. like. i don't. understand. how labeling something as 18+ is bad. that's what this is about. we're flagging things as 18+, having mature content, etc, so minors know this is not a space for them.

rolling back around to adults would sometimes just like to talk to adults. i would like to sit at the adult's table at thanksgiving so i don't have to hear the kids talking about whatever kids talk about, i would like to talk to adults.

plenty of non-rp fcs are 18+ because they don't want minors in the space. it's totally okay to not want minors in a space.

saying "erpers want to erp with children" is some sever mental gymnastics. not saying none of them do, but those few are disgusting and really don't stand for the rest of us that just want to sit in a tavern venue and talk in character and not feel the need to censor any 'adult talk,' be it sexual or violent or what have you.
To be fair, I think a lot of the 18+ venues don't really need that tag. For one, if a minor wants to play in an 18+ venue, they will absolutely lie about their age. And I'm not sure if you have suggestive dancing/dialogue or drinking at a venue you really need it... Since you know, unless you're getting more explicit than the game gets (which I think sometimes pushes the envelope of what is allowed in a T-rated game), it's not really needed.