I’m currently in the middle of developing an Italian Restaurant named “Diletta”… and I was wondering if adding wine to my game would be against TOS?
I can understand why it might be; but wine with food in a fancy restaurant could be considered a cultural thing in Italy.
Drinking wine would have no effect on the actual character. No dizziness, fatigue or anything.
Possibly when a player equips the wine tool there’s a text label saying something like: “Diletta does not endorse the drinking of alcoholic wine; our wine is purely for gameplay experience.”
I’d love to hear a second opinion on this. Personally, I think that it’s fine to add some wine into the game as long as it’s properly stated that drinking in real life is not endorsed. But I also don’t know what the Roblox TOS states.
Thanks heaps!
EDIT:
After some digging in the Roblox TOS; I found this. I’m not sure if that applies in this situation with the cultural thing. Would it be acceptable to have wine in this game if we call it “Non-alcoholic Wine”?
I don’t think this is a very good idea… The wine itself is fine, but what players can say about and do with it is a big problem. For instance, someone could drink out of the bottle then pretend to be dizzy and fatigued and bring a level of innapropiacy to the game.
I feel like what players can do with the game is not the developers issue. It is Roblox’s responsibility to control their players and make sure that things like that cannot happen. Although, if all developers had wine in their game I can see that this can lead to misbehaviour out of Roblox’s hands.
Putting another name to it doesn’t exactly avoid the problem. It’s like having a pornographic game and calling it “Hug time!” to avoid breach in TOS. Although it may not be called wine, it wouldn’t take a genius to figure out that “Grape Juice” poured into a wine glass isn’t exactly grape juice.
I feel like you replied without reading the full thread and understanding what’s going on. My issue isn’t exactly with the alcohol, but the wine and the reputation it has for an alcoholic drink. My issue is more “Can I put wine in my game if I make sure players know that it is non-alcoholic?”
Even if it was non-alcoholic, I would still consider it a huge no-no. A player could drink it then reset their character to make it look like they were knocked unconscious by the wine. Even if you disabled resetting, trollers could still make it inappropriate for Roblox.
The simple answer is yes, how ever as discussed here we can see a bit more details on why it’s not allowed. I’d just like to point a good rule to go by is if it’s not legal for everyone to do aka drinking wine you should probably not add it to your game. Keep in mind the majority of Roblox users are young impressionable children.
@PlaceRebuilder 's game Reason 2 Die Awakening added “pills” to his game to add health to the player and I believe it got shut down until he changed the name of the pills to “vitamins.”
You’re asking for help on if wine is against the ToS or not, which it is (it shouldn’t even be asked here because moderation staff aren’t on the forum to authoritatively answer your question) and you’ve been given clear alternatives that you can use.
You don’t need wine in your game and you can’t have it there either. Disclaimers like “this beverage is non-alcoholic” don’t work either. Find an alternative that doesn’t breach the Terms of Service. There are limitless possibilities. Context matters in moderation: grape juice in a curved glass isn’t inappropriate. If you fear moderation action, then change the glass model or do something else?
There’s a difference between uploading a (no-no) game called “hug place” and renaming wine to “grape juice.”
Regardless, developers in the past have had GFXs denied because of a bottle of wine in the background. Calling it grape juice will probably be fine, after all, online interactions are not rated.
You can add the bottle, but as long the players doesn’t drink it, and as long it doesn’t state “wine” or “alcohol” on the bottle or any places in your game, I believe your fine.
There are many games that have these bars, but you don’t drink or see that it is alcohol.
You can add wine, but rename it to something like “Cola” or “Win” or something like that so it gets the message across to what it is, but not downright saying it’s wine.
