ROYAL RUBY • NIGHTCLUB • BEHEMOTH/PRIMAL

[Archpoet]

I’ve sat patiently and respectfully by, all the while maintaining a professional demeanor, as this community has alternated back and forth between defending our right to exist and tearing us apart for our supposed depravity. Some of you have posted well thought out responses both for and against the RP venue concept, for and against posting about it in General Discussion, posting about it period, and all in between.



Further, some would suspect a nefarious scheme behind the scenes in the RP venue community at large, or at the Ruby specifically. To those, I would say this:



We decided early on that, any personal feelings aside, ERP did not belong in an upscale establishment such as we were planning the Royal Ruby to be. And in the planning stage, we did a lot of very recent research into other venues, their offerings, menu, pricing and presentation, and we adjusted ours accordingly so as to be commensurate of the highest quality RP immersive experience that we could possibly offer as a nightclub and fine dining restaurant. Additionally, our raffles are not RNG based insomuch that every night we have a raffle, someone wins. Yes, you enter for a chance to win, but it is not further limited by having to roll > 95. In this way, it is a true raffle, unlike most other venues, whose raffles are actually lotteries. It is the experience you’re paying for, just like in real life, and the prices are tailored to attract a certain type of customer. Even so, they are market value and in line with several other venues. We’re covering costs, and dividing up the gil between the employees based on hours worked per diem, also like real life. As I said, it’s as professional and immersive as we can make it.


The research and planning paid off in that it allowed us to quickly ingratiate ourselves as a high quality brand to the RP community, and because we actually do deliver a high quality experience, we’ve been very successful at providing an upscale RP venue thus far. After only two nights, we had customers tell us that they’ve “never experienced anything like this anywhere else in the game.” So, then, as in real life, I must insist that you do not call up the 5-star restaurant to tell them that their prix fixe menu prices are too high, because you can get Kobe beef cheaper at Sam’s Club— it lacks tact.


For those of a mind to, I invite you to suspend your incredulity, your disbelief, your judgements, and imagine with me that the RP venue community is more than RP prostitution, and gil laundering and racketeering fronts for the RP Mafia, and that it can definitely legitimately exist outside of the Crystal/Aether* datacenter, and outside of all of your expectations.