This is language related, but mostly a legal/law issue that is continuing to flare up, and this seemed the best place to report it and offer solutions. If this is not the right spot for this, please move it to general discussion or something (although it's not really a discussion). I would advise Square to do as they always do and get ahead of this problem before it really boils over and politicians get involved (especially with what else is going on).
I am requesting that GMs actively remove all the North-American-type "18+" party finder listings from the OCE data center, and accept them as a reportable offence after a grace period of about 2 months.
This problem and threat has been going on for some time and clearly not going away. To assist the situation (and to confirm what I was already sure was true) I did the legal research and can confirm that out of all the countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania (of whom the OCE data center was created to service), only ONE has 18 as the age of consent, almost all the others were 16, with a few 15s and Australia itself at 16 or 17 depending on state. Alcohol age is irrelevant because there is no alcoholic drinks in the game accessible, produceable or interactable by players, and are also a physical substance that is produced, bought and consumed, unlike the main issue here.
I am gravely concerned about this ongoing problem, of which is effectively a law-washing attack on the OCE data center, to the point where people will become confused about their own country's legal age of consent and other laws. It makes no sense to continue allowing another nations people from the other side of the planet (with entirely different values, beliefs, language, laws etc) to continue pushing their law onto SEA and OCE countries. I have already posted my opposition to world data center travel, even suggesting all players be forced back to the region/center closest to where they play from, and stand by that also. But I also present a compromise:
In lieu of maintaining a situation of GMs indefinitely removing the '18+' party finder listings off of the OCE data center, I propose blocking PF-making and all communication from Voyagers other than the built in auto-translate phrases. Basically all Voyagers would be placed under the chat limits of free trial players, but going further to block chat entirely including in parties- free trial limits already exist so building a couple of extra chatblock rules on to it hopefully wouldn't take too long. This will also help combat the threat of language-replacement, of which the UK, Australia and NZ are the prime sufferers. Again I would advise Square to play things smart (and lead the videogame industry) by getting ahead of this geographical issue that is a concern for a number of online games out there. I appreciate Square's ongoing efforts in trying to make this game the best it can be whilst trying to keep it as low key on *those other issues*, but this is a problem we cannot run from and it's better to make the first move. Voyagers can of course continue to use out-of-game programs like discord to communicate with persons they have already added to their groups on said programs.
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I am requesting that GMs actively remove all the North-American-type "18+" party finder listings from the OCE data center, and accept them as a reportable offence after a grace period of about 2 months.
This problem and threat has been going on for some time and clearly not going away. To assist the situation (and to confirm what I was already sure was true) I did the legal research and can confirm that out of all the countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania (of whom the OCE data center was created to service), only ONE has 18 as the age of consent, almost all the others were 16, with a few 15s and Australia itself at 16 or 17 depending on state. Alcohol age is irrelevant because there is no alcoholic drinks in the game accessible, produceable or interactable by players, and are also a physical substance that is produced, bought and consumed, unlike the main issue here.
I am gravely concerned about this ongoing problem, of which is effectively a law-washing attack on the OCE data center, to the point where people will become confused about their own country's legal age of consent and other laws. It makes no sense to continue allowing another nations people from the other side of the planet (with entirely different values, beliefs, language, laws etc) to continue pushing their law onto SEA and OCE countries. I have already posted my opposition to world data center travel, even suggesting all players be forced back to the region/center closest to where they play from, and stand by that also. But I also present a compromise:
In lieu of maintaining a situation of GMs indefinitely removing the '18+' party finder listings off of the OCE data center, I propose blocking PF-making and all communication from Voyagers other than the built in auto-translate phrases. Basically all Voyagers would be placed under the chat limits of free trial players, but going further to block chat entirely including in parties- free trial limits already exist so building a couple of extra chatblock rules on to it hopefully wouldn't take too long. This will also help combat the threat of language-replacement, of which the UK, Australia and NZ are the prime sufferers. Again I would advise Square to play things smart (and lead the videogame industry) by getting ahead of this geographical issue that is a concern for a number of online games out there. I appreciate Square's ongoing efforts in trying to make this game the best it can be whilst trying to keep it as low key on *those other issues*, but this is a problem we cannot run from and it's better to make the first move. Voyagers can of course continue to use out-of-game programs like discord to communicate with persons they have already added to their groups on said programs.
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