[Idea] Modification to ToS

[RosaliaDLB]

This is officially WoW forums 2.0.

WoW Forums has social contract crying.
FFXIV Forums has ToS crying...?

Why are you making bashing on WoW your personality ? Why are you so obsessed with the game ?

[Eastwall]

People are really thirsty it seems

[Renalt]

People are really thirsty it seems

[Payadopa]

I've been playing for over 10 years and never has anyone asked me for money. lol

Maybe because I look poor? ;(

[Renalt]

I've been playing for over 10 years and never has anyone asked me for money. lol

Maybe because I look poor? ;(

I had a group RP as a father/son group. They saw me doing push-ups ( and probably the Honest Gillionaire title ) and started giving me water. Then they asked for some spare change for food.

I gave them 100k. Apparently the kid can get proper schooling now.

[Vrankyl]

All Square Enix needs to do is enforce the ban on modding. People's brains have been rewired to be drawn to those erotic mods. Without their disgusting abominations, they won't find vanilla text roleplay satisfying, and they'll leave. Same for doing /beesknees in a club. Those "strippers" won't be appealing if there's not 50 pounds strapped to the torso. And all that SE needs to do is mandate that the official client be used. They could simply send an encrypted key from the login servers to the launcher that a third-party one wouldn't be able to obtain. And with Dalamud gone, so is Mare and all of the other cancerous filth.

It would also help for them to manually crack down on club listings, but honestly, there's nothing inherently wrong with a nightclub as as long as it's good, clean fun. Cut off the source of the dopamine and the worst of the cancer will be eradicated overnight.

Too bad Square Enix won't do anything about it, though! LOL!

I really hope that you don't actually believe this cause uh.... that won't stop it. If it did then it wouldn't be a thing in WoW which has banned anything that modifies game files and has a scanner to prevent that. And yet, despite that, Moon Guard Gold Shire has been a bigger ERP presence to this day than just about anything else.

[caffe_macchiato]

"They could simply ..." should never be used in discussing game code development. I have a friend working in the MMORPG industry at this point, and there is never anything that they do that is simple.

So do I, and yes, some things CAN be that simple.

If it did then it wouldn't be a thing in WoW which has banned anything that modifies game files and has a scanner to prevent that. And yet, despite that, Moon Guard Gold Shire has been a bigger ERP presence to this day than just about anything else.

Goldshire is 18+ content done right. It's localized and based on classic text-based RP. Don't like it? Don't go there. Even trade chat on Moon Guard has less profanity than Balmung Ul'dah's shout chat. Profanity, lewdness and adult-oriented advertising seeps through every pore of FFXIV in North America. Every DC has been infected with it. The "seedy underbelly" of FFXIV is now its public face. This game has turned into a cesspit.

These are all in "Other" PF category. Consider not going there? There's really no content on that tab. Raids, extremes, ults are on High-End tab, the others are on their specific tabs.

"Other" is the place for every other PF not classified specifically. IDK why would anybody would be bothered by that PF tab. Just don't go there.

Just don't look in the party finder! Just hide /shout chat! Just ignore tells! Just stay away from any FFXIV community online! I sure love paying $13 a month for a game full of adverts, spam and sex pests!

[Ranaku]

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Ofc they won't do anything about this situation, there are hundreds of thousands of people using third party tools. With just taking the sub money into account that's a good chunk of money. And now we have to also take into account that those people usually are the ones that buy tons of shop items and there you have it. I don't think investors would like SE just annihilating a good chunk of their profits for little to no reason.

SE has something at hand that literally any other MMO and marketing person would just have wet dreams about. Which is free advertising and activity. Given this might be not "good" activity by many peoples standards but tens of thousands of players logging in daily to do well..."stuff(ing)" ingame creates an "active" MMO which is something that an MMO wants above everything else. And this activity extends beyond content droughts and content in general which is just a insane vein of gold SE hit with this. The other point is free advertisement which comes from thousands and thousands of players gposing and flooding all social media platforms daily with their poses and other things.

Everyone who thinks SE would give up this literal gold mine is at best just delusional. SE has found something no other MMO ever managed to find and i am certain they would never give this up ever.

That said, in my opinion people can do whatever they want as long as they actually check how old the player behind the other piece of pixels and polygons is. That is literally the only thing i would say speaks against nightclubs which is their blatant ignorance of minors getting access to their 18+ venues. Some even clearly accepting that fact and letting underaged players work there.

[Daddyslittlevampire]

I notice a few very disturbing trends and I think ToS needs to be tweaked to include the following as prohibited.

1) people treating this game like its tinder.

Now before you crucify me on this one. Yeah I get the whole venue thing and actual couples who met in game. However the trend I talk about is the pfs I see of people seeking a bf or gf for in game and/or irl as well. Like I know online isn't rated but we got kids who play this game and stuff.

There needs to be a huge limit here and yes we can even include venue ad spam. Probably better off that's not on pf...same with feet girl who been using ffxiv as her platform to sell feet pics since covid started and square allows it.

2) begging in pf.

This has gotten a bit out of hand. You see people constantly begging for gil (or masking it as "donations"), you see people beg for mounts or mogstation items. Heck I even seen one beg for people to donate money to them to pay their own rent. That last one is mind boggling because everyone should know, bills come first. Always plan in case of problem spots.

I banter tho. Those two things really need to be added to tos as prohibited and of course venue ad spam cleaned up on pf.

As I suspect I might get trolls. Not going to pay attention to this after posted. You all banter amongst yourselves

Let's see the game has bunny girls, cat girls, a strip club many npcs call people whoresons, and bitch. Honestly, they need to stop being so stricken with the ToS, the game itself is built to encourage lewd behavior and swearing.. I'm sorry but with any common sense looking at what's in the game both story and character/outfit-wise. They say this is like real life, but guess what in real life I can go hit on people say lewd stuff as loud as I want can even do it in public parks at the right time. Hell I sware every time I feel the need, so honestly their little TOS would be to stricked. Anyone would common sense would see why this game is perfect for lewd and IMVU type of environments, just people are too naive to realize whats already in front of them without the players in it the game is already built for it.

[DiaDeem]

[Idea] Modification to ToS
I notice a few very disturbing trends and I think ToS needs to be tweaked to include the following as prohibited.

1) people treating this forum like its personal diary.

Now before you crucify me on this one. Yeah I get the whole venting thing and actual issues with the game. However the trend I talk about is the threads I see of people making posts they don't even engage with later. Like I know online isn't rated but we got kids who read this forum and stuff.

There needs to be a huge limit here and yes we can even include kaiten discussions. Probably better off that's not on forums...same with diadeem who been using ffxiv forums as her platform to post trash unrelated gifs and square allows it.

2) begging in forums.

This has gotten a bit out of hand. You see people constantly begging for kaiten (or masking it as "concerns"), you see people beg for bane or kaiten. Heck I even seen one beg for people to give kaiten back to them to play their own samurai. That last one is mind boggling because everyone should know, healers come first. Always plan in case of problem spots.

I banter tho. Those two things really need to be added to tos as prohibited and of course venue ad spam cleaned up on pf.

As I suspect I might get trolls. Not going to pay attention to this after posted. You all banter amongst yourselves