Roleplay/Partyfinder Discrepancies & Policy Enforcement by GM's

[Ashemmi]

Perhaps you consider the use of "18+" to be lewd?

Many do, and it's unfortunate. It's far from the case.

The club announcements that I've seen don't mention ERP at all. (And yes, I have level 80s on Balmung as well as Gilgamesh).

You're not looking too hard. There was an auction of "slaves for your pleasure", not too long ago. The wording is lightish...but we know what it means.
Many, if not all link to external sites and Discords. You're one hop away from the smokescreen of "it's not there" In Party finder right this moment there's an ad pointing to a webpage that lists:

"ERP
150,000 per hour"

[kinglyonheart]

It's kind of hard to see a GM with a good reputation and feedbacks past several years (source: google with players leaving feedbacks), to just intentionally attack RP community by stopping RP venues on Party Finder.

Probably there were several reports being sent to GMs about the ERP venues that were just way too inappropriate and the GM decided to stop all of them completely, maybe? But regardless, Crystal Data hasn't so far faced it yet, and yet this Data Center has the largest RP communities than others too.

the statement of "if this happened on crystal you would absolutely see hundreds of bards in a singular location playing "do you hear the people sing" from le mis, all slightly out of time and on different instruments, with at least one guy playing careless whisper while people let off their flashiest AOEs accompanies by paragraphs of roleplay text" was made to me once and honestly i'm a little disappointed we probably won't get to see that because, yeah, that tracks for crystal LMAO

[LisSquid]

^^^ THIS

all this "think of the children!" ramblings and like.
we are, that's the whole point.

that's why we're trying to have spaces that are intended for adults, out of consideration for the children, so adults can be adults and talk about adult things without children/teens there. adults talking about adult things =/= nasty roleplay brothels 24/7. most of my real life friend circles are adults because we want to be able to talk about adult things if they happen to come up in the course of conversation, and sometimes you just want that same vibe in a game. it's why loads of FCs and other social circles are 18+. i dont want to have to worry if my conversation turns to something potentially inappropriate for children because there are no children.

This. My discord servers and communities are all 21+. All but one don't even have NSFW channels. We're not locking out kids to protect their innocence, we literally just do not want to have to perform parental duties or be constantly censoring ourselves as an example. When I log on I want to breathe and relax.

[Kaurhz]

Ok, so if it's not against the ToS, what about doing it in exchange for in-game gil? Is that against the ToS?

Again, I'm not talking about RMT/account sharing, I'm only talking about what the PF advertisement displays. What you are able to deduce from those entries is irrelevant since GMs are not (and should not be) taking actions based on mere deductions.

I'm not defending anything. I'm looking at what a GM allegedly stated and, if they're correct, what it means for PF listings that do not explicitly says there is RMT/account sharing going on. (And on that note, does letting someone else play your character for one fight counts as account sharing?)

If I see several ads for the selfsame 'commerce' group then it is considered as spam, and arguably the use of spam to send unsolicited advertisements could be interpreted as being against the terms of service clause for harassment. That is just how vaguely written the clauses are. That being said, selling the services in exchange for Gil wouldn't be. Although you could still make the argument that it still does under clauses 2.3, 2.8, and 3.9 anyway, again, just by how vaguely written they are.

Yes having someone play your character for 1 fight would constitute account sharing because to feasibly do such you are required to provide them with your account details so that they may log in to your character.

That being said, what you've said does highlight quite a glaring issue surround this, and that is, they are very limited in what sources can be cited, and used as a reference when banning someone. As the whole activity surrounding runs is generally done entirely outside of the game so you'd be largely impeded on your ability to investigate which is an utter shame considering how a lot of people view the whole situation of selling and buying content.

[Mirakumi]

Is there a final verdict on this? I know there was a streamer who was in Jail for RP Venue and they asked to speak to a Senior GM on the matter and that GM just issued a warning and booted them out of the jail lol. So ? . Is this only Primal Data Center ? I'd imagine if this hit Crystal this would have been at 1k posts already but its not so it must only be effecting a certain group.

[linayar]

That being said, what you've said does highlight quite a glaring issue surround this, and that is, they are very limited in what sources can be cited, and used as a reference when banning someone. As the whole activity surrounding runs is generally done entirely outside of the game so you'd be largely impeded on your ability to investigate which is an utter shame considering how a lot of people view the whole situation of selling and buying content.

Exactly. If what the GM says is correct, and there is no actual violation in selling such a service (presumably for in-game gil regardless of what may be the case, but I'll have to look at those mentioned clauses), then it might start to make sense for me why they allow these advertisements, well, outside of the false categories, which I think should not be allowed either.

[Xeros_cl]

It's when they took action against the guy looking for a fishing buddy that got me. Fishing is definitively in-game content and doing it with someone can be both enjoyable and beneficial (pooling resources, whatnot).

I really want a screenshot of that PF. put it on signature to kind of support against this nonsense

[ZackZero]

The entire point is to reduce visibility.

Congratulations, you want to reduce the visibility of the RP community - which is exactly what this does. Go off somewhere else if that's your mentality on an MMORPG.

[poptarts12]

The guy who was banned in question was outright advertising for ERP. There's a pinned post on r/sh*tpostxiv about it, and the exact conversation he had with the GM. This "fishing buddy" nonsense, is a joke.

[van_arn]

Congratulations, you want to reduce the visibility of the RP community - which is exactly what this does. Go off somewhere else if that's your mentality on an MMORPG.

Erp is fine as long as it’s private.

Private means no advertising. Get out of the public.