Terms of Service

Created: 11 November 2024, 01:04:08 EST
Last updated: 4 January 2025, 11:29:25 EST

By engaging with services provided by The Realm of Faia ARPG, you agree that you have read, understood, and are bound by the following Terms of Service. Depending on the situation, any violation of the terms and services may result in a suspension or ban.

We reserve the right to: 
  1. Take action against persons who have violated the terms and services. This includes seizing in-game characters or items without compensation, temporarily or permanently closing accounts, etc.
  2. Deny access or use of our services.
  3. Discontinue our services without prior notification.
  4. Make changes to the Terms of Service without prior notification.

 

I. Code of Conduct

  1. All users must be at least 13 years of age to register and play the ARPG. Users that are found to be under the age of 13 will be suspended until they are of age.
  2. Each person may only have one account. Accounts cannot be sold or given away to another person.
You may not:
  1. Use the ARPG primarily as a platform to market unrelated goods and services.
  2. Employ the use of bots or data-mining tools to benefit play.
  3. Exploit bugs before/without reporting them.
  4. Purposefully cause disruption and drama in the community that negatively impacts other players’ experience.
  5. Harass, bully, ostracize, beg, guilt-trip, manipulate, or impersonate another person. 
  6. Intimidate or make violent threats of any kind towards another person, both directly or indirectly.
  7. Scam, trick, or mislead another person. This includes lying by omission or spreading false information, and applies to any trades under the ARPG.
  8. Argue with mods over rejected submissions, or push for major changes to the rules and system of the ARPG in a hostile manner.
  9. Steal, trace, or heavily reference any artwork or designs within the ARPG.
  10. Advertise unofficial designs as official designs, or purposefully create off-brand designs with malicious intent.
  11. Purposefully tarnish the image of the ARPG with malicious intent.

 

II. Game Submissions

  1. Using AI in art or writing submissions will result in a ban.
  2. All submissions must be original work made by you, unless a collaborative effort is allowed and correctly credited.
  3. The same work cannot be submitted multiple times or under multiple prompts. Backgrounds, sketches, and linework cannot be reused between prompts.
  4. Different stages (ex. Sketch, coloring, finish) of the same piece are still considered the same piece.
  5. Submissions cannot contain NSFW content. NSFW content includes, but is not limited to, sexual themes, abuse, self harm, and extreme gore.
  6. Submissions containing sensitive content must be spoilered and TWed for mods. This includes minor gore and common phobias.
  7. All submissions must have been created after the player's registry to the site.
  8. All submissions should be roughly the same quality as the player's regular artwork.  Mods reserve the right to reject a submission if they feel that the player is farming (submitting rushed, unpolished pieces that are lower quality than normal to earn more currency)

 

III. Ownership & monetary sale

Ownership
  1. Characters cannot be co-owned. Only one owner can be listed on the masterlist, and this user is recognized as the official owner. 
  2. The owner of any ARPG character owns personal and non-commercial rights to the character. We own commercial rights to the character in terms of species.
  3. An official character is defined as: a character uploaded to the website’s masterlist.
Monetary sale
  1. ARPG items cannot be resold for real-world currency unless purchased for real-world currency. In these cases, it must be resold at the same price.
  2. Items used in the creation of a character do factor into the worth of the character, with the exception of items obtained for free (ex. tickets from MYO events)
  3. A character can only be sold or vouchered for real-world currency if it was originally purchased for real-world currency.
  4. A character cannot be resold for more than it's worth.
  5. Self-made artwork and artwork commissioned for real-world currency add to the character’s worth. However, the value of personal artwork cannot be inflated for the purpose of future resale.

 

IV. Voiding Characters

Voided characters will be completely removed from the ARPG. They can only be returned to the ARPG with the appropriate MYO and trait items.

  1. Only the current owner can void a character.
  2. Items used in the creation of the character or in the character’s inventory will not be refunded.
  3. Voided characters cannot be advertised as official characters.

To void a character, please submit a help ticket.

 

V. Suspensions & Bans

Suspension

Upon suspension, a clear end date will be provided. Suspended users may not engage in ARPG activities, including but not limited to using the website, trading for species characters or items, and participating in the discord server. Suspended users may:

  1. Trade away species characters or items for non Faia currencies, items, or characters.
  2. Draw their Faian characters.
  3. Rejoin once the suspension is over, and resume regular activity.
Ban

Upon ban, a clear reason will be provided. Banned users may not engage in ARPG activities of any kind. Banned users may not attempt to rejoin, and new accounts will be re-banned immediately. Banned users’ inventory will be liquidated. Characters will either be seized without compensation, or voided for the user to keep.