FFXIV's weird prostitution hangup

[Roeshel]

so you're saying that all RPers are actually ERPers? considering the OP went to a normal RP bar and yet they still got that proposition...
no, instead you double down and blame them for going to a normal bar and being asked if they'd like to sell their virtual body and that the OP should've known, like, did you even read the posts or read what you're writing? how is this NOT victim blaming? you're basically saying that it's to be expected because the OP is a catgirl on balmung
your smoke analogy makes no sense because this here isn't a case of peer pressure but a case of a supposedly "safe" RP place being once again the front for ERP and again people are making excuses, it's weird
big yikes

An ERP event being advertised as a normal RP event makes no sense first of all. You will get a bunch of people who don't want to participate in your event and the whole thing will be ruined so you are basically wasting your time.

What's normal RP on Balmung. You have to define that if you want to proceed. If ERPs is more common than RP then ERPs is by default the normal. In any case, ERPs gain nothing from having people like the OP in their events. I wouldn't want them in my bar if I ever decide to organise an event. So it makes little to no sense to me that people won't try to actively prevent such type of players crashing their parties unless that type of players are almost non-existent, meaning they are too few to even bother. If you are on a server where ERP is prevalent, asking the whole community to change for you so that you can do the RP you like is a bit too much. Do the opposite or move away.

In the original post, the word "normal" was never mentioned btw. This was later added in his following post. And even after reading the second post, I am still doubting that they are victims. A victim can be a person who has been tricked or duped. And if ERP is the normal thing in Balmung then they were just being ignorant of the environment that surrounds them.

I just googled it and found that Balmung is an unofficial RP server who was the first NA server to fully rebuild New Nest, surpassing the hardcore players on Gilgamesh. But I am now reading 4-year-old comments on reddit about ERP in public chat on Balmung and some 2-year-old article about player-maintained brothels, so what we consider normal RP definitely doesn't apply there if everything is the same. I'd guess that being erotic with their role-playing is pretty much their normal. So my point that OP is not a victim still stands.

[Senn]

And if ERP is the normal thing in Balmung then they were just being ignorant of the environment that surrounds them.

So because erp is the norm on that server, the advertisement doesn't need to mention it's nsfw? People should just assume the venue is going to have erp in it? That's... not good.

[Almagnus1]

So because erp is the norm on that server, the advertisement doesn't need to mention it's nsfw? People should just assume the venue is going to have erp in it? That's... not good.

That's going to go over well until they get someone to screenshot and report ERP for harassment when they were expecting RP.

Or something else comes of it not good for FFXIV.