Give DJ/ Roleplay events their own tab

[ZephyrMenodora]

Took a break from the forums for the most part of 2 months, to play and enjoy the game and also new job...Not surprised to see the same half dozen or so folks complaining about the same things, but I find myself agreeing with Stormpeaks in this thread, to my surprise.

Same. Posting less and less and finding I'm not missing anything. Same topics and people who just spend all their time worried about what other people do in their houses. It's really sad. Maybe if they had more going on in their own lives to focus on they wouldn't spend time busying themselves with such things.

Edit: Wouldn't hurt to add an RP tab and call it a day so people can stop complaining endlessly. Weird when the last time this came up several people also went to PF and showed that non-RP content vastly outweighed RP postings, and among the RP postings they weren't even 18+, but we can just let people be upset over nothing.

[CidHeiral]

people who just spend all their time worried about what other people do in their houses.

I see this comment a lot and I'm not sure if the commenters are genuinely not understanding the complaint being made or if they're being deliberately obtuse to strawman the point.

As I assume most people complaining about this would agree, I do not care at all what people do in private. I think the make believe clubs are cringeworthy and ERP is pathetic, but I can just choose not to visit those places. Normally that would be that, to each their own. The problem is that the people running those venues shove it in everyone else's face as hard as they possibly can. The main two things pissing everyone else off are:

1. Shout chat is absolutely flooded with nonstop club ad spam, most using multiple separate shouts for one ad and repeating them frequently. You can't just blacklist them because they're all hired help that get rotated out constantly. It doesn't just happen in cities either, I've seen these ads pop up out in the middle of nowhere. "Just turn off shout chat" is a ridiculous solution. Why should I have to restrict myself from a useful game feature because other people are abusing it?

2. The "Other" tab is nigh unusable for anything that isn't a club because every venue insists on posting 5+ ads. I once saw TEN ADS for the same venue. It completely drowns out everything else which is why the formerly numerous fun and original actual roleplaying venues have almost all died out or moved to discords.

Both of these issues could be solved easily. Limit your shout ads to one short and sweet message sent once every hour or two and limit the PF ads to one listing per club. Do that and nobody would have a problem.

Again if someone wants to spend their evenings beating off to catgirls, more power to you, I do not care. Just stop making it everyone else's problem.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I see this comment a lot and I'm not sure if the commenters are genuinely not understanding the complaint being made or if they're being deliberately obtuse to strawman the point.

As I assume most people complaining about this would agree, I do not care at all what people do in private. I think the make believe clubs are cringeworthy and ERP is pathetic, but I can just choose not to visit those places. Normally that would be that, to each their own. The problem is that the people running those venues shove it in everyone else's face as hard as they possibly can. The main two things pissing everyone else off are:

1. Shout chat is absolutely flooded with nonstop club ad spam, most using multiple separate shouts for one ad and repeating them frequently. You can't just blacklist them because they're all hired help that get rotated out constantly. It doesn't just happen in cities either, I've seen these ads pop up out in the middle of nowhere. "Just turn off shout chat" is a ridiculous solution. Why should I have to restrict myself from a useful game feature because other people are abusing it?

2. The "Other" tab is nigh unusable for anything that isn't a club because every venue insists on posting 5+ ads. I once saw TEN ADS for the same venue. It completely drowns out everything else which is why the formerly numerous fun and original actual roleplaying venues have almost all died out or moved to discords.

Both of these issues could be solved easily. Limit your shout ads to one short and sweet message sent once every hour or two and limit the PF ads to one listing per club. Do that and nobody would have a problem.

Again if someone wants to spend their evenings beating off to catgirls, more power to you, I do not care. Just stop making it everyone else's problem.

None of what you said above describes what I witness in XIV, and I play quite a bit.

[AzhreiVahlok]

I see this comment a lot and I'm not sure if the commenters are genuinely not understanding the complaint being made or if they're being deliberately obtuse to strawman the point.

As I assume most people complaining about this would agree, I do not care at all what people do in private. I think the make believe clubs are cringeworthy and ERP is pathetic, but I can just choose not to visit those places. Normally that would be that, to each their own. The problem is that the people running those venues shove it in everyone else's face as hard as they possibly can. The main two things pissing everyone else off are:

1. Shout chat is absolutely flooded with nonstop club ad spam, most using multiple separate shouts for one ad and repeating them frequently. You can't just blacklist them because they're all hired help that get rotated out constantly. It doesn't just happen in cities either, I've seen these ads pop up out in the middle of nowhere. "Just turn off shout chat" is a ridiculous solution. Why should I have to restrict myself from a useful game feature because other people are abusing it?

2. The "Other" tab is nigh unusable for anything that isn't a club because every venue insists on posting 5+ ads. I once saw TEN ADS for the same venue. It completely drowns out everything else which is why the formerly numerous fun and original actual roleplaying venues have almost all died out or moved to discords.

Both of these issues could be solved easily. Limit your shout ads to one short and sweet message sent once every hour or two and limit the PF ads to one listing per club. Do that and nobody would have a problem.

Again if someone wants to spend their evenings beating off to catgirls, more power to you, I do not care. Just stop making it everyone else's problem.

or even better NO shout ads... against the TOS... and keep to the PF like you're supposed to