Quote Originally Posted by MOZZYSTAR View Post
As my title asks: is it allowed to do art commissions for USD/paypal (not gil, cuz I'm pretty sure that would be classified as RMT) through FFXIV game and forums?

Quote Originally Posted by Dustytome View Post
According to TOS, no: http://support.na.square-enix.com/ru...2&tag=users_en
Keep in mind that also applies to selling or profiting off ANY website by using FFXIV trademarks and copyrights. If someone wants to sell art commissions, just advertise that you do art comissions, "even your avatar/toon from a MMORPG" and just include that in your social media profiles. You could also just start a Patreon and go "suggest something to draw" at some tier and people can suggest whatever.

Just don't do it inside the game because regardless of any ToS, if one person does it, then everyone else will try it, and because the game is not a safe way to do commissions, players will be defrauded. That's the entire reason why all RMT is bad, as the fraud risk is extreme. To give you an idea, let's say you say you'll do a comission for someone, and then because someone recognizes your character from the forum and then pretends to be you, on another server, and then runs off with a players money, it comes back to you.

For advertising on the forum, again that ToS item is meant to prevent people from creating threads to advertise an unsanctioned service and flooding the forum with everyone else who wants to offer something similar. Just draw a mini-comic for your sig, and link it to your social media profile or your art site.