ROYAL RUBY • NIGHTCLUB • BEHEMOTH/PRIMAL

[Saefinn]

Kind of tangenting a little but while we're talking about paying in gil while at RP venues, I personally have never been to one that DOESN'T make you pay with real gil. If "free" venues exist, they are few and far between. I've seen prices ranging from 3k-500k+ for certain services (not including ERP cause that's a whole other beast). I consider myself to be well off in the game and don't mind spreading the gil around, but asking for 500k for unlimited fake drinks for the night is robbery. Just being honest.

I also feel that a lot of people are getting into running venues because of how much gil people do make if their venue is popular, like without even having any love for roleplay at all. It's kind of sad/gross in my opinion to profit off a community you don't even recognize yourself as part of. But that's just my take on it.

I see you're on Aether and OP is on Primal. This could explain it. I'm on Crystal and Crystal houses Balmung, which has always been the "defacto" RP server (except back in 1.0 when it was Besaid before it merged) and it has spread out to other servers on the data center like Mateus and Zalera. So the core of the RP community is here. Which I guess means you're much more likely to find venues who do it for the sake of RP.

My guess then is people on other data centres realised you can make money off of RP venues? Which makes me wonder if it's legit RP too, because it sounds like RP as a means to an end.

But this may explain why in the space of the last year or so we've been seeing more people trying to pay us real gil at our FC's tavern night, we ended up putting a disclaimer on our menu. It makes me wonder then if there are some that charge on my data centre too.

But I agree, it's robbery. Heck, 300k for a chance to win a mogstation item feels steep to me. I can understand maybe paying something for a chance to win.

However, every one that I've attended in all my years on Balmung I've never been charged for a drink with real gil. I suppose if people figure out you can make money, there's somebody out there to exploit it and it's harder to exploit on a server/datacentre where there's people already doing it for free because they're in it for the RP.
But again, I can understand an immersion thing, but I'd maybe expect up to 500gil max so that's it an inconsequential amount. But 5k for an apple juice, 10k for a steak, 500k all you can drink. It's a bit much.