Can we go back to banning people for ERP crap?

[Zer0]

Seriously I go to any main city and it's nothing but spam from people advertising their stupid erp cafe. Can we go back to banning them please? I'm tired of nonstop erp cafe spam.

[Denji]

Seriously I go to any main city and it's nothing but spam from people advertising their stupid erp cafe. Can we go back to banning them please? I'm tired of nonstop erp cafe spam.

I wish they would at least ban the ones with URLs that lead to porn.
I used to report the ones that did (explaining how people under the age of 18 play this game) and nothing happens. It makes you wonder if some GMs in their downtime host some of these on their non-GM alts.

[Jeeqbit]

Not all of them are ERP, but ERP happens in MMOs and as the game has grown in popularity the ERPers have moved over as well and now you just see the 18+ advertisements everywhere.

[Zer0]

Not all of them are ERP, but ERP happens in MMOs and as the game has grown in popularity the ERPers have moved over as well and now you just see the 18+ advertisements everywhere.

And it used to be banned hard but it's not anymore. I'm saying it all needs to be banned. Any spam about your stupid cafe or tavern or whatever you want to try to mask your erp crap needs to be banned outright.

KEEP THAT OUT OF MY GAME!!!!

[hydralus]

I'd just turn shout chat off if it's nothing but spam, my guy.

[Silver-Strider]

I wonder how bad things will get if they ever add a Whip Class.

[NekoMataMata]

Didn't they cleanse PF of all the ads at one point?

[Zer0]

Didn't they cleanse PF of all the ads at one point?

They did and more. They used to ban outright for it. Now it's basically encouraged to the point they don't even punish people for buying billboards to advertise their erp cafe on public streets.

I guess Yoshii P doesn't care about copyright claims or any of that.

[LaylaTsarra]

I wonder how bad things will get if they ever add a Whip Class.

I think paddles are more popular, perhaps they can be alternate weapons?

Didn't they cleanse PF of all the ads at one point?

They were never removed from party finders on Crystal for sure and other servers seem to be full and have always been full of venues in the evening and I play this game on multiple data centers. Whether these exist in Japan i can't say given i don't read the language. Perhaps I need to DC travel to Tonberry where they speak a lot of English.

[Jagick]

Honestly, I feel like they should just rework the largely ignored fellowship finder into an announcement board for player events and venues as well. Furthermore, create a chat channel specifically for player announcements that people can opt into or out of like any other chat channel we presently have. While I can't stand all the various stupid club spam and "DJ" this or that ads, I don't think shutting people down altogether is the right course of action either. Remove it from the general shout channel and party finder, but give these players and people legitimate places to post their advertisements without disrupting anyone or anything else.