Quote Originally Posted by Kes13a View Post
I would love to see how this plays out. we have reported botting in droves, yet they are still here.

the whole RP thing is pretty low key, yet bashed heavily. people RPing doesnt exactly break the ToS... its just as many people enjoy RP, just as many vehemently hate it. Its been this way in mmo's for a long time. As usual, the people against it try and stop the RP'ers from their playstyle.

It would be interesting to see if SE did officially say anything, simply because this isnt cheating, yet for them to punish that would be proof they condone the people who do cheat, and are determined to stamp out what people do for fun
Most aren’t bothered by roleplay, they’re bothered by public hornyposting. Merely changing words in a public ad for a brothel or similar sex service doesn’t change the fact that that sort of content shouldn’t be spamming any tab in a public channel on a teen-rated game.

Merely changing an ERP ad to an 18+ ad might obfuscate your intent enough to dodge a TOS violation, but you’re no better than a RMT seller constantly changing their phrasing to dodge a filter. Furthermore, the people tempering their language to mask adult content will dive behind anyone doing “just normal rp” at the first sign of trouble.

Since Square is terrible at moderation, being wholly and utterly incapable of keeping both groups of undesirables off pf, they should remove the player ability to set a custom message at all for pf.

That means *all* of the useless posts on pf get nuked. Sellers (erp or content), depression clubs, attention-seekers, afk clubs. Go salted earth because that’s the last resort they have available to them. What the gm team is doing (or, more accurately, what they aren’t doing) is currently useless.

The rp community will find a way to do whatever they want outside of pf. If the shout spam gets severe, then people will turn off shout and the situation will resolve itself. They’ll have to actually be social, building up networks of their own, rather than relying on five of their fc members roleplaying as knockoff trash anime waiters at Hooters posting the same blasted message on pf.

Alternatively, quadruple the blacklist so players can begin circulating a “master” list of pf spammers to effectively remove those players from the game.

The ideal solution in regards to protecting those underage would be to remove custom pf messages, but at this point I’m skeptical Square is capable of doing anything for pf spam.