Quote Originally Posted by LianaThorne View Post
Is it that people like spending gil to participate in RP or is that venues made that the norm after seeing the potential of making money off it? Cause it's already been stated multiple times in this thread that free RP venues are the norm in other DCs. Aether and Primal seem to be the exception so far.
See, that's a good question. My venue has been in operation for a year now with this basic model, and we've had good months and bad months. I've never heard complaints of the practice of trading in real gil till today in this thread, actually. Frequently in addition to paying for food and drink, our bartenders get tipped pretty handsomely too, and we have no mandates regarding tipping whatsoever, we don't even track tip earnings we just hear the occasional "holy jeeze this guy tipped me for 100k" sometimes lol.

I'm not an expert in what other venues do though. I dunno if hourly wages are regular at all etc. I suppose we'll see when dc visit is a thing if it's just culture or if people value it as part of the rp scene.