Quote Originally Posted by strawberrycake View Post
The solution is to cut down on the ads period or even do what other MMOs have done and make a seperate Advertisement channel for them that people can turn off and anything being posted outside of it will be removed instantly by the games systems and reportable. That way parents can keep kids and children safe and people who dont wanna see it don't have to. Stop the strawman bs.
So this is the one thing that keeps popping up.

The children this, the children that.

There can't seriously be that many teenagers play XIV at this point? I've been playing the game since I was 17 and the crowd I've met around my age is just non-existent.

I know OP mentions having a 14 year old daughter but there's just so many other problems besides the people on the game. People on the internet are generally just disturbing at times, let's just put it that way. If you're not looking over your kids shoulders when they're using the internet early on then you can't really be surprised at what they find. I had definitely seen and been told far worse than what OP's daughter had by that age and that was with strict parents that attempted to monitor most everything I did online. I still found ways around it for better or worse.

Also, just kind of strange to hear about someone actually going to their parent for an explanation of something. Maybe it was just me or my friends, but you either googled it or asked each other. Going to your parents with something like that is asking for trouble usually.

I'm not defending the community's lack of boundaries but the entire story just feels weird. Either spend more time looking after your kids or just accept that they're going to run into some messed up stuff out there.