You won’t get banned for FFXIV ERP – as long as it’s private and consenting

If you've played Final Fantasize XIV, you've probably walked ultimo a largely-unclothed Miqo'tellurium saltation in Limsa Lominsa with the RP image succeeding to their epithet. If you know, you be intimate. If you Don't, you should keep walking. Today, the developers of FFXIV have issued a major expansion on the rules around harassment, and information technology includes some specific guidelines on erotic role-playing scenarios.

Using emotes to "mimic grinding against another character" or that are "evocative of sexual activities" is an "obscene/indecent formulation" and thusly violation of the rules – if you'ray doing it in populace OR with a better hal who's non into the whole thing. Fundamentally, these things are technically against the rules, but you'ray exclusively likely to get in trouble for it if you're reported.

"In the display case of role-playacting involving gently sexual expressions (such as erotic role-playing) with a consenting mathematical group of 2 Oregon more players, if IT is conducted in a toffee-nosed area, it will not be considered a violation unless a report is made," the devs explain in the new rules. "However, if you advance or invite a player to enter in so much use-play without being certain of their accept, there is a high possibility that you leave be reported and penalized. Please be very careful."

This is all very funny to watch spelled out in explicit footing, merely there are really both meaningful breakdowns on what constitutes the type of harassment that the devs testament get involved in. "If all members of a Free Company think that 'slenderly vulgar jokes are not a problem and wish not cause offense', then using expressions that fall into the category of 'slightly vulgar jokes' in the Free Company in question will not be considered a violation unless it is reportable.

"However, the perception of 'slightly vulgar jokes' varies from individual to person, and thither is the possibility that what you consider to be 'somewhat vulgar jokes' English hawthorn comprise considered unacceptable by others. Delight be careful when making these kinds of expressions."

And then yes, we now have the FFXIV devs explaining the concept of consent. Not a bad thing, but certainly a weird one. Anyway, the Endwalker release see is coming up presently, so if you've got whatever social occasion in-game orgies to put unneurotic, you might want to start finding your private blank space now.