It is kind of amazing how prevalent this sort of thing is on Crystal, particularly Balmung and Mateus.

I mostly play solo but in a bout of loneliness I thought to give FCs a try in hopes of finding a community. What I ended up finding in a short time, trying out like 3 FCs that were actively recruiting, was that each of them had some ERP element/players involved in them, despite not recruiting as specifically RP guilds. Some of them were involved in some kind of night club/venue community that spanned several servers where players either act as bartenders, bouncers, or ERP escorts. Again, these were FCs who were either recruiting in shout or on forums/reddit and never said this was their focus; and I don't think it was their focus, I got the sense this was just second nature to a lot of Crystal players. Their discord servers tended to have NSFW channels for sharing adult content too.

I ended up going to Balmung when I rejoined the game, and later Mateus because the unofficial RP servers seemed really alive and busy. It's just busy with people I mostly wouldn't want to interact with. If I could transfer my house with me I'd get off this data center in a heartbeat. I would really hope it's not as prevalent on other data centers. I've never seen such open thirst from an MMO community.