Why so many 18+ related player events in the party finders

[Meifala]

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The front facing part of the community is not ERP. You might be noticing it cause you're annoyed by it but I'd hardly say that's the MOST prominent part of the community. The playerbase total has increased so more people are doing MORE of everything.

There is no optimization discussion outside of very small corners for certain fights because 2 minute meta killed pretty much all optimization discussions. Once the initial rotation numbers are crunched, that's it.

The culture is different because there are more people affecting it. I'm not claiming it's exactly the same, I never claimed that. I SAID that the parts of the game you seem to be bemoaning STILL exists. The ERP/RP/Nightclub stuff STILL exists too. It all has been existent in this game for a long long long ass time. Just cause you see more nightclub ads cause there's more people so more nightclubs doesn't mean the ENTIRE GAME CULTURE has shifted into only ERP.

[DiaDeem]

[Rolder50]

It's about the only good activity in this game these days, about all there is to it.

[Hallarem]

You can do something about it. If someone is pushing 18+ stuff in public, just report them.
That stuff is supposed to happen in private according to the ToS.
Simple.

[ronibosch]

Just be a chronic loner like me, OP, then you'll never see any ERP in-game.

[Avoidy]

There're sooooooo many people who just pay a subscription fee to log in and ERP all day. Like, if your question is genuine, you have no idea how many people legit just use this game as a sexting platform. It's nuts. The actual game gets new content every four months at a drip feed and the story's declined substantially, so all that's left is to load up some dirty dances and shake your ass on some twitch DJ's floor. Why these people don't just unsub and go to VR chat or Second Life, is beyond me.

Shout out to Square though, for looking the other way as usual so long as it brings them sub money. Sub money from subs, haha. Get it? It's funny because there are barely any doms in XIV. Anyway, you can ignore this stuff really easily. Just don't click the "other" tab in pf and disable shout chat since it was never good to begin with. I played on balmung and never had to see any of that crap unless I went out of my way to see it and even then I was only seeing the surface side of things if you catch my drift.

[VeyaAkemi]

This sure is a lot of pages dedicated to a puritanical, pearl-clutching non-issue...

[Velthice]

This sure is a lot of pages dedicated to a puritanical, pearl-clutching non-issue...

That's because people haven't learned to stop engaging with concern trolling and just call it out for what it is

It's used all the time, by generally unaffected parties to try and force their worldview on everyone else, and they usually bring up children, because WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN (they have no children) is used as a shield of plausible deniability to defend the stupidest takes

Woman too sexy in video game? Cover her up! Won't somebody think of the children?
Book talking about gay stuff? Ban it! Won't somebody think of the children?

And you can see how effective it is in this thread

[Nero-Voidstails]

this thread is funny like if all plugin user are bad yes some are but most people I interact with are ok with the fact I am not using those and never did they don't force shit on me. yes I don't encourage them at all but if someone isn't forcing anything on you. you should leave them alone if they are hostile to you because you don't use those then you should report.


after all more then half the NA servers use those so it would be a major drop

[NaoSen]

this thread is funny like if all plugin user are bad yes some are but most people I interact with are ok with the fact I am not using those and never did they don't force shit on me. yes I don't encourage them at all but if someone isn't forcing anything on you. you should leave them alone if they are hostile to you because you don't use those then you should report.


after all more then half the NA servers use those so it would be a major drop

While I don't think all users of the plugins are bad either, I have seen the effect over time of them change how the entire social landscape I've known for years works as the plugins allow for a more... intense... experience, be it clothing or animation.
An exponential increase in degeneracy as well as an actual dependence of plugins to the level of "I'd quit if mods got taken away" being quite a common thing to see a person say, a club discord that has both SFW and NSFW gallery's you'll generally see interaction in reaction be extremely slim in SFW and rather high in NSFW.

I completely stopped going to venues as a result of this and just dialled up my content focus, now I have no content that I enjoy left until 7.2