(02-13-2015, 06:15 PM)Melkire Wrote: As I understand it, the laws that allow us to keep a FFXIV-related site open, up, and running don't allow us to breach the ToS that Square-Enix has implemented for their IP and service. If we were to breach said ToS, the RPC could get shut down by Square-Enix due to the violation.
FreelanceWizard Wrote: ...pursuant to the Materials Use License that governs this site (which does not permit any promotion of forbidden activities in game), all threads advertising art of any sort, commissioned or otherwise, for gil are forbidden as of February 12, 2015.
For the record, guys, if a video game developer actually had the legal capability to shut down a website that is theoretically promoting RMT, there would be exactly zero gold farming / account sale / power leveling websites in existence. Those websites aren't a secret. They're blatant. They come up on search engines really, really easily. Game developers know that they exist. If they could do anything about it, they would. They can't. They don't have any legal ground to shut down a website for activities which violate their game's TOS, because the website isn't a player of the game and therefore isn't subject to the TOS.
Not suggesting you guys should change the policy back or anything - hey, man, it's your website, you put up whatever rules you want. I'm just saying it's not something you have to actually be, like... "afraid" of. If that makes sense.
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This player has a sense of humor. If the content of the post suggests otherwise, please err on the side of amusement and friendship, because that's almost certainly the intent. We're all on the same team: Team Roleplayer! Have a smile, have a chuckle, and have a slice of pie. Isn't pie great?
