How is this allowed?

[hydralus]

As an IRL example. A 14 y/o can find "Adult Movies" on the Internet if they seek for it but also doesnt get exposed to it on his YouTube Frontpage on a on a daily basis.

Instead they'll be put down red pill rabbit holes or, even worse, Spiderman and Elsa pregnancy videos.

Also kids can't read these days so there's no need to worry.

[Daughterofdeath]

honestly if this is just an act i want to have a beer with you some time, this is too funny

you have image of me in my cage still you really believe im not 100% serious, I dont act I just speak the truth no matter what because idc, and i wont let anyone tell me otherwise regardless of who or what power they have. Why bother wearing a mask when the most someone can do is end me, and if they that yay I get to go to hell (if its real which its not)
I've told gms off multiple timestons. To many people lie to themself and others pretending to be this 'normal" drone in society I dont bother because im above that human bs

[Boblawblah]

[YukioKobayashi]

This constant moral panic over ERP is so strange to me. If it offends you don't go looking for it. I literally never run across this stuff unless it's people on the forums or on YouTube complaining about it.

Its really hard to not see it if you do more than just your daily roulette. Opening the Partyfinder to find a Ultimate Party or going to the Limsa Marketboard to buy something is already enough to get bombarded with that stuff.

there are no other ways, you do it on shout people get pissy and try to start something and tell you to just do it in pf, and honestly thats the fault of SE ive suggested multiple times they make 18+ worlds only for it to get ignored they asked for date of birth on account making so they could easily do it, i mean you can get in trouble for pfs I have beefore.


but the age controll is on the parents themself noone else

There are other ways to advertise that kind of RP outside of the game and official forums. Discord Servers, Websites, ect. It takes less than 30 seconds to find the FFXIVVenues Website on Google by searching for "FFXIV RP". Expecting parents to always keep an eye on what the child is doing in an story and combat focused mmorpg is really unrealistic.

Exposed to what? The words "spicy bathhouse"? The fact that NSFW content exists somewhere out there?

Ok now seriously. The average age of the xiv playerbase from what I have seen is far over 25. Now imagine an lets say 16 y/o somewhat new player visiting one of the "spicy bathhouse"s out of curiosity after seeing it listed on the Partyfinder. Gets introduced to that kind of RP among players far over his age. ( before someone stops me here now. Yes i know. Not everyone does that kind of RP this way but some are.) It turns my stomach thinking about that the older person might rub a salami while "RPing" with said 16 y/o. Thats some criminal "pdf file" stuff that doesnt belong in an MMO. Especially not that accessible via the In-Game Partyfinder. That kind of RP is still between 2 People and not AI. The age matters.

[brinn12]

It's interesting to see that there are people who log into FFXIV, see "VERY NSFW" in a PF description, and think: "This doesn't break ToS". I wish I could be this naive.
(not talking about OP of course)

[Daughterofdeath]

It's interesting to see that there are people who log into FFXIV, see "VERY NSFW" in a PF description, and think: "This doesn't break ToS". I wish I could be this naive.
(not talking about OP of course)

or we disagree with it completely just because something is written into a tos, rule or law doesn't mean it should be obeyed sometimes people make rules they HAVE NO RIGHT to make to start with, and this is one of those examples when the MSQ story and content itself has it written into the lore/and story its hypocritical to have a rule against it in the TOS

[Red-thunder]

you have image of me in my cage still you really believe im not 100% serious, I dont act I just speak the truth no matter what because idc, and i wont let anyone tell me otherwise regardless of who or what power they have. Why bother wearing a mask when the most someone can do is end me, and if they that yay I get to go to hell (if its real which its not)
I've told gms off multiple timestons. To many people lie to themself and others pretending to be this 'normal" drone in society I dont bother because im above that human bs

I'll still have a beer with you if this is the real you just don't slit my throat in an alley

[Mawlzy]

Its really hard to not see it if you do more than just your daily roulette. Opening the Partyfinder to find a Ultimate Party or going to the Limsa Marketboard to buy something is already enough to get bombarded with that stuff.

I guess I must be really unobservant because I've never felt bombarded by "that stuff," nor hardly ever noticed it.

Meanwhile, the MSQ includes, to various degrees of specificity, most of the vices and crimes that are features of the real world, including torture, kidnap, murder and r@pe.

Of course the protection of minors is important, but I imagine a 16 year-old visiting a mature venue knows exactly what they're getting into, and also knows how to click "I am over 18" on adult sites all over the web.

[Asari5]

not like you can see whatever weird mod others use in their game. and also there is a word filter in the game.... what will a child coincedently landing in such a place see thats not appropriate?

[brinn12]

or we disagree with it completely just because something is written into a tos, rule or law doesn't mean it should be obeyed sometimes people make rules they HAVE NO RIGHT to make to start with, and this is one of those examples when the MSQ story and content itself has it written into the lore/and story its hypocritical to have a rule against it in the TOS

It's fine to call ToS unfair, but to deny that these PFs are breaking ToS is completely different.