Welcome to the V Rising community! We at Stunlock Studios are thrilled to have you with us. Our goal is to create a safe and enjoyable space for all players. To achieve this, we've established guidelines to ensure everyone can have a great experience. Remember, your fellow players are not just NPCs—they're real people deserving of respect and consideration. Please read and follow these guidelines carefully.
First, when we say in these guidelines:
- “We” means Stunlock Studios and our partners, affiliates, and licensors.
- When we refer to the “game” or “V Rising,” we mean the V Rising game and any code, software, and media we provided connected with it.
- “Streams” means any videos, screen recordings, or screenshots taken from the game.
1. Legal
These guidelines do not replace the V Rising End User License Agreement (the “EULA”), which governs the legal use of the game.
The EULA is available at https://store.steampowered.com/eula/1604030_eula_1.
The EULA is a legal contract between you and Stunlock Studios that precedes these guidelines. These guidelines are meant to give you more context on what you can and can’t do with the game. In case of any conflict between these guidelines and the EULA, the terms of the EULA will prevail.
2. Updates
We may update these guidelines periodically. Please check back regularly to stay informed of any changes. Any updates will take effect the next time you use the game.
3. Keep the Game Fair
We are committed to ensuring fairness in the game and do not allow players to gain an unfair advantage over others.
We recognize that some users who own, control, or run servers may accept donations to cover server costs and not gain an economic benefit for themselves. Some players may give generously without expecting any benefits or advantages over other players. This is acceptable, but we may revisit this stance if such practices are abused in the future.
However, it is never okay to solicit donations from other users in the game in exchange for providing them with items that give them benefits or advantages over other players, including items from mods. Furthermore, soliciting money for personal economic gain is not the intended or acceptable use of our game and tools; thus, it is prohibited and violates the EULA. It is also not acceptable to provide players with items available only through DLC content if they do not own that DLC content for monetary compensation.
Similarly, purchasing items or advantages from other players or users who own, control, or run servers that grant you an unfair edge is also against the rules. This kind of activity undermines the game's fairness and breaches the EULA.
To maintain a fair gaming environment, we reserve the right to take necessary actions, including blacklisting servers if needed. Please play fairly and respect these guidelines.
4. Streaming
We’re excited that you want to share your gameplay with others! As an individual (and not on behalf of a marketing department, corporation, Super PAC, government, or any other organization), you are allowed to create, use, and share streams of your gameplay. You may also monetize your streams through advertisements if you adhere to the rules below and comply with the EULA.
You are allowed to post streams of the game on third-party sites like Twitch or YouTube and monetize those streams through ad revenue or paid sponsorships if you follow these guidelines:
- Be Yourself. Your stream should be your own gameplay—you can’t just put your handle or username on someone else’s stream.
- Don’t be us, either. Don’t include anything that could make others think your stream is an “official” V Rising stream.
- Share your thoughts. You must add enough new content to the stream so that it’s not just a reproduction of the game. We decide how much “new” content is enough—but when in doubt, more is better!
- Be nice. Yes, we’re bringing up the EULA again. As the EULA says, don’t put anything fraudulent, misleading, harmful, racist, disparaging, blasphemous, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, vulgar, offensive, discriminatory, bigoted, hateful, bullying, threatening, violent, or which promotes gambling, violence, terrorism, or illicit substances in your streams.
5. Books, Publication, and Fanfiction
We’re delighted you enjoy the story and characters in V Rising—we do, too! We’re supportive of you creating books, publications, or fanfiction (collectively referred to as “publications”) based on our game, provided that you:
--- Clearly label your publication as “unofficial” to distinguish it from official V Rising content.
That means:
- Don’t use our branding, logos, or trademarks in your publication.
- Don’t use any images or art from our official products on the cover or in connection with telling others about your publication.
- Don’t use the phrase “V Rising” in the title of your publication or feature it prominently on the front or back cover.
- Don’t use letters that look like or impersonate our brand or logos.
Get creative. You can use screenshots of gameplay in your publication. But remember that your publication shouldn’t just reproduce the game—in fact, most of the content in the publication should be your own content, not assets from the game.
Keep it clean. Remember the EULA? It applies here, too. So don’t include anything in your publication that is fraudulent, misleading, harmful, racist, disparaging, blasphemous, libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, pedophilic, vulgar, offensive, discriminatory, bigoted, hateful, bullying, threatening, violent, or which promotes gambling, violence, terrorism, or illicit substances.
6. V Rising Official Servers
The V Rising Official Servers are considered a privilege offered to players on our behalf. It is our goal to keep these servers as free as possible from bigotry, harassment, and exploits. As such, violating the terms of our Community Guidelines while on Official Servers could see you permanently banned from all V Rising Official Servers.
This is already covered in our Code of Conduct, but let’s take this opportunity to get into even more detail.
The following behavior is considered bannable:
- Hateful Language. Users found to use excessively offensive language to the detriment of other players on the server, especially in cases of repeated, direct harassment of an individual. This could include vulgarity, sexually explicit language, or any form of bigotry.
- Threatening Language. Any language or directed harassment that may be perceived as a threat to the safety or security of another player. This includes revealing personal information that could threaten their anonymity, health, or life. We take these kinds of threats very seriously.
- Be Respectful. Aberrant behavior that serves no purpose other than degrading the experience of others. This could include actions such as spamming the chat to make it unusable by other players. We reserve the right to determine what behavior fits this criteria, so we do not recommend trying to get creative to sidestep the technicalities of this rule.
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Exploits. Abusing bugs to gain an advantage over another player or otherwise disadvantage another player. This is mostly relevant in player vs. player scenarios and most often happens when circumventing the game's mechanical rules to get into another player’s castle or placing a building piece where you should not be able to due to a quirk in the code. If you are found to be benefiting from an exploit, even if you’re simply fighting alongside a clanmate who is noticeably breaking one of these rules, you may also be held accountable.
- If you are phasing through walls, dropping through physical objects, or clipping into mountains, we are going to consider this very obvious rule-breaking. It should be obvious that you should not be doing this, so claiming you didn’t know it was an exploit is not going to save you here.
- If you are placing a staircase in a way that fits entirely in front of a ramp, this behavior is prohibited in almost every spot on the map. It should be fairly obvious to anyone who has much experience with V Rising that this is unintended behavior if you happen to find a way to make it happen, and as such, it will be treated as an exploit.
- Any bug that manages to get the Blood of the Immortal out into the open world will be acted on if you do not immediately take steps to remove the blood from yourself.
We consider Official Servers to be a potential home for first-time players of V Rising, and because of that, we want you to keep in mind that this may be a lot of player’s first impression of the game. Let’s try and make this a good experience for them so that they stick around, and you have more Vampires to play with in the future!
Do you want to report poor behavior on your server, or appeal a ban? Contact us! You can reach us on our discord by sending a message to the Dracula’s Mailbox bot, or send us an email at info@playvrising.com.
If you’re looking to report behavior for us to investigate, please include the name of the person or people you are reporting, screenshot or video evidence of the issue with as much context and detail as possible, and the name of the Official server the events too place on.
If you’re looking to appeal a ban, please include your SteamID or PlayStation account name in the request to save us some time in looking up the incident on our end.
Remember, folks, we don’t expect you to be perfect, and we understand people can get frustrated and don’t always say what they mean. We also get that there are misunderstandings, and people make mistakes. At the end of the day, though, we need to be able to play together, and that means people who can’t control themselves might need to find another home to embark on their Vampire adventures. Don’t let it come to that!
See you all in Vardoran!