Quote Originally Posted by MartinFreepaw View Post
For venue rp, the last few I've done since the changes were 'light' but expected for a new savage drop and new expac, so I wasn't aware of the other venue owners suffering even less turn outs than I did. And generally when I see something going on to this magnitude I ask/reach out and see what is causing a decline and everyone agreed it was DC Travel bans.
I'm thinking a small implosion is happening. Before Endwalker, there were venues but nowhere near as many. When Empy came out for extra housing and DC Travel unlocked, the community got flooded with venues, with, ironically enough, nightclub clones that later got memed on. Everyone wanted to open a venue, later on everyone wanted to become a DJ, and both have seen reputation/quality decline over the years in the non-rp community eyes that don't know how widely they can swing in variance. Now that DC Travel is locking up people, you have all those extra venues without the population that fueled them to be alive in the first place. I would assume that over time, most of the smaller one's that don't have a strong core community will eventually close and things will semi-go back to how they were pre-Endwalker.