Promotional Activities - What's allowed?

[Bunnycake]

I'm waiting on someone who will advertise it by getting a tattoo and walking around.

Imagine getting banned from said nightclubs lol

[Deveryn]

"Political/Religious/Commercial/Promotional Activities" refer to the act of engaging in activities and promotions that involve real-life political groups, religious organizations, or business entities that have no connections to Final Fantasy XIV. Even if the activity is for charity, it is prohibited as the activity is not relevant to the game.

That section is pretty clear. The answer is no. The community tends to echo this sentiment by default. FFXIV is an escape from the real world. Kindly leave all that other stuff out there. If you want to affect change in the real world, you do it out there.

[CaptainDillweed]

Will you also change your profile pictures to feature a flag overlay? Where can I donate my thoughts and prayers? As has been said by multiple people every time one of these threads pop up, don't do it. If you have good intentions, that's great. If you want to actually do something to help any effort in fixing the issues you care about, even better, and more power to you. Putting a line in your PF and patting yourselves on the back is useless slacktivism, and this isn't the platform for it anyway. It's a video game.

[Necrotica]

Just put an FF spin on it.

Instead of Cancer Awareness, it is Aether Sickness Awareness.

Instead of War in Ukraine, it is help Gridania build a bigger wall between them and Ala Mhigo!

Not all of those translate 1:1. Just got to localize your real world issues into Eorzea speak.

[wei_t_a_minute]

We did want to try putting an FF spin on it, but some also expressed concerns. At our last venue we wanted to say the following (and only this phrase with nothing else mentioning donations or charity):

"Please consider taking your noble spirit not just throughout Eorzea, but also to the world beyond by donating to causes that threaten your fellow adventurers."

A couple of fc mates raised concerns about that statement and requested official clarification as to whether something like that is okay or not.

[LianaThorne]

We did want to try putting an FF spin on it, but some also expressed concerns. At our last venue we wanted to say the following (and only this phrase with nothing else mentioning donations or charity):

"Please consider taking your noble spirit not just throughout Eorzea, but also to the world beyond by donating to causes that threaten your fellow adventurers."

A couple of fc mates raised concerns about that statement and requested official clarification as to whether something like that is okay or not.

I'd think that would be fine ngl. I think they're more about stuff that's more along the lines of: "Come to our venue where we're raising money for x charity."

Or people spamming a gofundme link in public hubs.

[Deveryn]

We did want to try putting an FF spin on it, but some also expressed concerns. At our last venue we wanted to say the following (and only this phrase with nothing else mentioning donations or charity):

"Please consider taking your noble spirit not just throughout Eorzea, but also to the world beyond by donating to causes that threaten your fellow adventurers."

A couple of fc mates raised concerns about that statement and requested official clarification as to whether something like that is okay or not.

Your FC mates are right to be concerned. Even a statement like that could be interpreted as such. It's a nice gesture, but the best thing to do is just keep it out of game.

[Raoabolic]

it is help Gridania build a bigger wall between them and Ala Mhigo!

I thought about seeing an advertisement that sounded like this in 2017 and got a hearty chuckle. Thanks m8! lol

[Kes13a]

if you want to create a positive change in the world, DO IT IN THE REAL WORLD

seriously, having good intentions are always awesome, but why walk a tightrope that can get you banned? if you want to do good for real life causes, a video game is not the place to do it, plain and simple. its not so much logic as it is common sense.

[Lunalepsy]

Billboards all over the US!