Venue/club advertisements have become a massive nuisance

[LianaThorne]

Hot take: If you are running a for profit venue that takes any revenue wither it be real money, ingame gil, or a backdoor way to advertise your other third party affiliates such as selling art commissions, Twitch or Onlyfans, then you are no longer role playing; you are a business man. Role play is just a front for a greater means. You are providing services for financial gain. That is not role play no matter how you want to dice it. That is a business service. Providing real deals, real customer service, disputes, claims, and contracts. It's orangized business not role play. These venues have made it difficult to tell real RP FCs and businesses apart from each other and the ads are so constant that you can't find real non RP FCs among all the mess.

Facts.
It's not roleplay. It's a business.

I wish more were honest about their intentions instead of screaming that they're "for the RP". If that's the case, then stop charging gil for services you provide and dont provide wages to your staff, the RP is supposed to be the reason to show up and being paid to RP defeats the purpose.RP is not supposed to be equivalent to a job, it's supposed to be for fun with the reward being the stories you make with others and the progress on your character.

Like I said in a thread before, I will never view venues (especially nightclubs) as roleplay. All owners of those spaces are providing is "afk while you listen to a DJ who probably can't get gigs irl while serving overpriced drinks and trying to push escorts/dancers onto desperate patrons." It's gross.