Venue/club advertisements have become a massive nuisance

[Stormpeaks]

Clubs are fun. And if the club advertisements annoy you then use the block list.


Cheers

Or they can have their own place to advertise instead of bothering everyone ? Also they use throwaway chars to spam, so a block list doesnt help.

Removing shouts and yells is not a solution either. People shouldnt have to do that just so they dont have to deal with venue ads.

[Padudu]

I have NOTHING against roleplay.
I do however have a problem with venue ads being spammed.

Venues fall into RP category, and they want people to come in. Balmung/Mateus are pretty popular as it is, thus the spam.

[Renalt]

We get them often in Balmung but since our Shout Chat is very active in Uldah anytime they advertise it gets pushed out of our view by our degeneracy almost immediately. We found our venue. It's Uldah and we aren't leaving that scene for your "Bees Knees while afk in silence" venue.

[AnnRam]

Clubs are fun. And if the club advertisements annoy you then use the block list.


Cheers

Yeah who doesn't love to go a place full of people wearing 2b bottoms and afking while doing bee the dance meanwhile everyone is waiting for that nasty /tell.

[Renalt]

Yeah who doesn't love to go a place full of people wearing 2b bottoms and afking while doing bee the dance meanwhile everyone is waiting for that nasty /tell.

I tried the 2B bottoms on my dude. Yeesh. Not a good look.

[AstreMcClain]

You got called manipulative because you're being very clearly manipulative.

She gave you an alternate viewpoint from the owner of a venue, she agreed to some of your points- Calling her manipulative is manipulative of you to paint her as the bad guy when there wasn't any bad guy at the start. As far as Dichotomy is concerned- You can RP at a venue, so she wasn't trying to compare something like apples to carrots. I don't care much for people trying to incorporate ethos pathos and logos into conversations to try and gain an upper hand and sway an audience, but criminalizing someone just because you don't like the response someone gave you isn't the way to go about it in public. As for me, I don't RP. I try, I want to- but it's just not for me. The Most 'RP'ing I will ever do is probably my bio page on here to be incredibly honest and like she said:

The curious players (who are likely new to the game and have not explored that aspect of FFXIV yet), are likely going to go there and probably develop an interest in the RP scene.

I was too, but there wasn't a flood of annoying shouts back when I tried. Yes, I hate them too simply because they oversaturate my chat with orange lengthy word walls. I tried going with some ex-FC mates and I found it wasn't for me, however stating that it should be outright removed in every form isn't the way to go either I didn't even know venues existed until mates showed me and prior to last year, I never touched the other tab in PF because all I thought about was simply Roulettes all the time. As far as out in the public, not everyone is willing or comfortable with doing it in a visual of an open area like a desert where anyone and everyone can see what they type. Yes there are things like Linkshells and parties that people can do to limit who all can see but the majority of new players have the mindset of "Oh... Everyone will think I'm cringe if I start openly RP." and so places like venues where they're RP safe places are good.

And if you're like me when I started you wouldn't have heard by word of mouth because I didn't have many friends starting out. So no, just because they can get information via word of mouth doesn't mean they will get the business.

As far as Gil transactions are concerned. Those are OPTIONAL much akin to the cash shop or a Fast food place. You don't need to go into these places and buy anything (though much like a business, they care more about if you are comfortable and willing to buy something- You wouldn't go to a -INSERT GENERIC RIPOFF NAME HERE- if a McDonald's was right down the road, would you?), it's part of the RP Experience if that Venues want to charge services. There are also plenty of places that are just hangouts.

[Imora]

Social advertisements belong to Fellowships, that's what it is for. I do hate all the spam in shout chat and party finder though.

Fellowship finder? You mean UwU Finder. All you see in there is erp garbage half the time.

Idgaf if that's what you want to do but don't advertise it.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Fellowship finder? You mean UwU Finder. All you see in there is erp garbage half the time.

Idgaf if that's what you want to do but don't advertise it.

That's basically what all these venues are anyway so... That's pretty fitting, no?

[Imora]

More people defending spam in here, just like the other thread lol.

I guess those people really like spam phonecalls. They probably defend the people "well if you don't like them you can just ignore them"

Funnily enough, that's exactly how I handle spam calls.

[Imora]

That's basically what all these venues are anyway so... That's pretty fitting, no?

Most of them on my server do not outright advertise erp.

So they're not.