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

[genuine_stranger]

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Are your friends new to MMOs or internet culture in general?

ERP has always been around in every MMO I’ve played. And, well... we both know the 34th rule of the internet.

As for plogons:
You can’t prove that other people are modifying the game’s appearance. Unless, of course, you’re using the forbidden moon one. In which case, the only thing it proves is that you are modifying the game on your local device, meaning you’re the one breaking TOS and risking a ban.

So yeah, a lose-lose scenario.

Honestly, the best thing CS3 could do at this point is to introduce a Gooner Shard™.

A special in-game containment zone where all the gooners and goonettes can roam free and ERP to their hearts content without disturbing the rest of the 'tame' playerbase.

[Kishin12345]

Are your friends new to MMOs or internet culture in general?

ERP has always been around in every MMO I’ve played. And, well... we both know the 34th rule of the internet.

As for plogons:
You can’t prove that other people are modifying the game’s appearance. Unless, of course, you’re using the forbidden moon one. In which case, the only thing it proves is that you are modifying the game on your local device, meaning you’re the one breaking TOS and risking a ban.

So yeah, a lose-lose scenario.

Honestly, the best thing CS3 could do at this point is to introduce a Gooner Shard™.

A special in-game containment zone where all the gooners and goonettes can roam free and ERP to their hearts content without disturbing the rest of the 'tame' playerbase.

That ERP happens is not the problem. The problem is that it happens publicly in front of everyones noses. Keep it a secret and its fine. I hope that at some point SE lets the ban hammer down. They want to take measures against the stalker plogon, right? Wonder how they find the dude? They cant stop it. Also there will just be more malicious tools in the future with such lax safety measures, oh wait no safety measures AT ALL lmao.

[hydralus]

I dunno if I had to choose between keeping the gooners or people who can't handle the idea of an 18+ space existing in the same game they play, I think I'll stick with the gooners.

[Meifala]

You're being intentionally obtuse. The game's culture has fundamentally hard-shifted to the current equilibrium. This is undeniable fact. In fact this game's culture was more like WoW during HW than what it is now.

There are still people doing the same things they've been doing since HW. There's just more people doing more things since the population has risen. I'm simply pointing out a lot of the things you seem to think have disappeared have shifted where they occur. A lot of stuff happens in discord now. That changed a lot for the community.

[Red-thunder]

There are still people doing the same things they've been doing since HW. There's just more people doing more things since the population has risen. I'm simply pointing out a lot of the things you seem to think have disappeared have shifted where they occur. A lot of stuff happens in discord now. That changed a lot for the community.

That is not the point. The point is that the proportion of these populations have changed and that the most prominent, front-facing parts of the community have changed. You are not seriously going to suggest that the % of the game's population that never raids and just ERPs the whole day has stayed the same?

No one is saying that raiding and opti are gone. Not that that matters because modern FF14 raid culture is raiding drama and talking about lolcows.

Like seriously, have you even seen anything coming close to threads like this at the TOP of the front page of /r/ffxiv in EW or DT? And with this kind of opti discourse?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...ide_34_update/

You barely even see this on /r/ffxivdiscussion now (unless black mage is mentioned or something)*. And The Balance is now flooded with shitposting.

Like I seriously don't understand why people like you keep trying to insist that HW culture was not MASSIVELY different. Even SB changed a lot from HW, which was when useless fanart started suffocating and destroying the main sub.

*though truth be told that's probably moreso because jobs are so braindead that there's nothing to talk about.

[DiaDeem]

[CuteBucket]

I 'personally' don't like big bulging packages of meat and two veg on my hermaphrodite big hootered bun Bois for the same reason I don't like big bulging packages of meat and two veg on my male bunbois, because it 'hyper' sexualises the game, and it's not in keeping with the 'naive optimistic wholesome' FANTASY vibe that first attracted me to this game filled with it's exuberant smol folk and I find it 'Yuck!'. I make no apologies for my personal feelings about where I am comfortable with dealing with my own sexuality and where I am not. I just want to play a game.
I left one community because being in it was just spoiling the game for me.
But I'm starting to see it everywhere. This did not used to be the case. If I have to leave every discord the game will be unplayable. But a lot of these deviant discords of depravity are spoiling the game for me.

I'm poking fun at it because I know ill come across as a prude, but it's spoils the game for me, and there is such a thing as too much, and these PFs are part of a growing trend that DOESN'T NEED ANY HELP TO GROW. FFXIV players be thirsty enough as it is. Bonk!

...Yeah, you sound like a prude who got too curious for your own good. This is a you problem. If you are being exposed to "big bulging packages of meat and two veg on my hermaphrodite big hootered bun Bois" and any other modbeast abominations trying to be invoked here, it's because you went out of your way to find it. YOU have to choose to join a modding syncshell. YOU have to join FFXIV Discord communities with NSFW gpose channels and then chose to view them. YOU have to be the one browsing modding websites to see some of the wild mods out there. YOU have to be following or searching certain terms to find this stuff.

You can literally just not look at or engage with it if you don't want to see it. I don't like most NSFW stuff, so I don't go into those communities and discord channels. Problem solved.

[hydralus]

*though truth be told that's probably moreso because jobs are so braindead that there's nothing to talk about.

Pretty much. Why bother talking about something that's already got a solution or where there's better information elsewhere? If you ask a question people just send your ass over to the balance discord.

[Mawlzy]

Honestly, the best thing CS3 could do at this point is to introduce a Gooner Shard™.

A special in-game containment zone where all the gooners and goonettes can roam free and ERP to their hearts content without disturbing the rest of the 'tame' playerbase.

Londoners have requested this feature IRL for decades. Get those Arsenal fans cordoned off from the rest of The Smoke.

[Rolder50]

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