Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
Existing in the community. Spending 5 minutes talking to other people. Being an officer in medium/large Free Companys for many years. I've been administrating communities, running raid teams, and arbitrating disputes between players since Heavensward.


Because I've seen it happen first hand, and even been harassed myself.
I've had to remove people from FFXIV related communities on many occasions for violating peoples boundaries and being extremely disgusting, and without fail they were overwhelmingly people who were deeply involved in the 'Venue' scene and had their super modded characters plastered all over the place. I've never experienced something like this to this extent on any other game, except for maybe PSO2 which also attracts these types of people like a magnet.


Do you know what happens you open this games tag on Twitter? Do you play other multiplayer games and engage with their community? This game has developed an external reputation for being full of degenerate behavior. One of the most notorious articles ever published about this game was about its brothel scene lol. There was a point where I stopped telling people I played this game, because I was tired of dealing with the inevitable 'Oh isn't that the game with a bunch of dudes cybering as catgirls' responses.



Venues that aren't focused on adult content are in the minority, and the people who end up attending them tend to be part of the adult venue scene anyway. Adult venues absolutely dominate the scene, at least here on NA.
You can speak for your server and your server only tbf. Maybe you just don't get out much or automatically assume things about the majority based on the minority you've interacted with. I've been to plenty of venues that are just chill bars with nothing extra going on. In my years I've had 1 person stalk me and this wasn't even due to a venue. Dude just saw me in Ul Dah and harassed me all the way back to my house. Can I say he was part of the 18+ scene for sure? No. I don't have that info. Btw having boundary issues and being in the venue scene aren't always hand in hand. One can be present without the other.

The folks you speak to may think the game is full of what you claim. The folks I speak to dont. Just what it is. You're still off for speaking as if the venue scene is just full blown degeneracy. Also just to add something simply nsfw doesn't equal degeneracy.