Venue/club advertisements have become a massive nuisance

[ronibosch]

Wait, that isn't supposed to be hot? Maybe I need to lay off the bara...

[Renalt]

Wait, that isn't supposed to be hot? Maybe I need to lay off the bara...

If you thought that was hot...this guy blows me right out of the water in terms of hotness.

https://youtu.be/TozprFrnn10

[jimmybe29]

you could just remove shout tho, what else is it being used for anyways?

I have mine disabled in my custom chat bar because half the times its some random language advertising their FC. its not even english, usually german, dutch, or french. i find it more annoying than club advs

I keep it for funny stuff, hunts, people asking help for clearing content or pf messages. Also having to disable one feature just to get rid of spammers with their venues is one way of letting people do whatever they want and limit the players who actually play the game for its content outside of the RP/ERP communities

[Burmecia]

I recommend blacklisting the venue ad spammers. There always appears new ones, but it reuces the noise a little at least.

[PirateRyanG]

I keep it for funny stuff, hunts, people asking help for clearing content or pf messages. Also having to disable one feature just to get rid of spammers with their venues is one way of letting people do whatever they want and limit the players who actually play the game for its content outside of the RP/ERP communities

But then that is impacting the people who play the game for the RP/ERP content, right?

You want to remove one method of shouting so that the parts of the game that you want to see are more obvious to you.

But, then doesn't that mean that the people who want to see the nightclub shouts, etc. end up suffering?

And don't say "well, they can go to PF". Well, couldn't your group go to PF too?

You are singling one group out, just because you don't like what they do.

[Toutatis]

But then that is impacting the people who play the game for the RP/ERP content, right?

You want to remove one method of shouting so that the parts of the game that you want to see are more obvious to you.

But, then doesn't that mean that the people who want to see the nightclub shouts, etc. end up suffering?

And don't say "well, they can go to PF". Well, couldn't your group go to PF too?

You are singling one group out, just because you don't like what they do.

I don't see hunt messages filling the entire chat window and there isn't a constant flow of them from multiple people: it's one occasional short line with coordinates and you rarely see them in cities. Same thing with people needing help like "where do I find xyz?". The venue advertisements have become absurdly long, extending sometimes over 2-4 messages because they reached the character limit. It's pretty rude and it has become a nuisance since Data Centre travel has become a thing.

Also concerning hunts: there are max 2 A bosses per area every 4-6 hours and S ranks can be respawned every 3-5 days only. Everyone goes for the same targets. It results in a very limited amount of shouts.

[LianaThorne]

But then that is impacting the people who play the game for the RP/ERP content, right?

You want to remove one method of shouting so that the parts of the game that you want to see are more obvious to you.

But, then doesn't that mean that the people who want to see the nightclub shouts, etc. end up suffering?

And don't say "well, they can go to PF". Well, couldn't your group go to PF too?

You are singling one group out, just because you don't like what they do.

I'm sure the ERPers and RPers will be fine. It's not like anyone who does legit RP really uses PF anymore to find it considering its nothing but nightclub spam and ERP is extremely accessible through Discord and other places because of how people can trap and report you in game now. Don't worry too much about them.

[Tabmow]

its pretty simple, i never frequent these gil sinks and just "ignore" the spruker on my server. no more ads

[LianaThorne]

its pretty simple, i never frequent these gil sinks and just "ignore" the spruker on my server. no more ads

Blocking only gets you so far when you have limited spaces to use and nightclubs can have multiple people running shouts and putting up advertisements. If you realistically tried to do that on NA, you'd run out of space within a week with how many pages of ads and new venues we get a day.

[Tabmow]

Great community!!! so much better than the WoW Forums!!...... lmfao