MATSUI-P Screenshot Competition

[Sirmarki]

Will you allow the screenshot competition on these forums too? (as you have done historically).

...For those of us that don't use the big social media channels (like me).

[Alhanelem]

I wish they'd do all the competitions (both here and in FFXIV) on social media,that way everyone can participate. Contests held on the forums automatically blocks anyone banned from the forums from participating. So it's better that they're held on a platform that isn't under SE's direct control.

Just make a dummy account and only use it for this purpose.

[Sirmarki]

Contests held on the forums automatically blocks anyone banned from the forums from participating.

Don't break the rules and get banned from the forums then(?)
Seriously, what percentage of players do you honestly think are banned from submitting posts on this forum?

[Alhanelem]

Don't break the rules and get banned from the forums then(?)
Seriously, what percentage of players do you honestly think are banned from submitting posts on this forum?
A much higher percentage than you think. And multiply it by ten on the FFXIV forums, where you can get banned for breathing in the wrong direction.

Even though I don't actually have anything to do with it, why would a certain person be hating on me for supposedly getting a bunch of people banned (No matter what somebody says, it's one's own fault for breaking the rules).

Over on the XIV forums there are plenty of totally reasonable and respectable people who are permabanned for minor errors in judgement. The fact that most contests are held on the forums is the sole reason I ever tried to contest my forum ban (in vain, obviously). Outside of that, they were probably doing me a favor lol.

I can still participate in the twitter contests since those aren't on the forums.

[Dragoy]

Would have participated via the forums, but will not do so via them Twitters.

(I say this while I even have an account for something unrelated from about 7 years ago (that I don't actively use).)

Methinks using both should be an option, not just one or the other. :]

[Immortal]

Its better on twitter, too many people are banned from these forums from ages ago. That being said, I forgot to participate.

[Zehira]

I almost forgot about this. I have a Twitter account that is following @FFXI_EN but then I checked it it seems nobody ever bothered to try. Kind of depressing but SE could always try again.

I don't even like Twitter myself because... I don't know. I only use Facebook for my family and real life friends... AND Official FFXI page. lol

[Dragoy]

I almost forgot about this. I have a Twitter account that is following @FFXI_EN but then I checked it it seems nobody ever bothered to try. Kind of depressing but SE could always try again.

I don't even like Twitter myself because... I don't know. I only use Facebook for my family and real life friends... AND Official FFXI page. lol

Yeah, your new'ish signature reminded me I was going to say something about it here. :]

[Zehira]

Yeah, your new'ish signature reminded me I was going to say something about it here. :]

Yeah lol. My gif took me a moment to realize what I actually say in my sign language. It says "awkward" in my sign language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPlePebVzI

But it's American Sign Language. My "lost friend" is a deaf lady from the United Kingdom. Her sign language isn't the same thing.

Edit: I can still talk to and see her on Facebook but she still plays FFXIV on an EU server.

[Immortal]

SE extend the admission period, I will enter now :)

[Alhanelem]

Would have participated via the forums, but will not do so via them Twitters.

(I say this while I even have an account for something unrelated from about 7 years ago (that I don't actively use).)

Methinks using both should be an option, not just one or the other. :]
Like I said though, I'm not even suggesting you become a regular twitter user. Just make an account that you exclusively use for this purpose and use an email you don't care about or make a smurf email for online accounts that don't matter to you in general.

[Dragoy]

Like I said though, I'm not even suggesting you become a regular twitter user. Just make an account that you exclusively use for this purpose and use an email you don't care about or make a smurf email for online accounts that don't matter to you in general.

I could do that, but I choose not to as a kind of a protest (if a very silent one; I don't really expect anyone to notice, but at least I tried). That's just how much I do not want to support Twitter and the likes.

If they'll never again do these things via the forums, well, that will be unfortunate, but I'll probably live. :]

[Alhanelem]

I could do that, but I choose not to as a kind of a protest (if a very silent one; I don't really expect anyone to notice, but at least I tried). That's just how much I do not want to support Twitter and the likes.

If they'll never again do these things via the forums, well, that will be unfortunate, but I'll probably live. :]
I mean, really, what's the big deal? They use social media for these kinds of things because social media is popular and widely used (and has more potential to grow their user base than a forum which can only be used by current users). I mean, I get that you don't like social media, and I don't really like it much either. But it doesn't hurt you to exclusively use it to participate in these contests, which is exactly what I do. It's pointless to protest because it's essentially ingrained into society at this point.

Think of it this way. When they run a contest on twitter, some people who don't currently play the game may see it, and go "Wow, that game is still running? They're doing contests? Maybe I should check it out again."

[Dragoy]

I mean, really, what's the big deal? They use social media for these kinds of things because social media is popular and widely used (and has more potential to grow their user base than a forum which can only be used by current users). I mean, I get that you don't like social media, and I don't really like it much either. But it doesn't hurt you to exclusively use it to participate in these contests, which is exactly what I do. It's pointless to protest because it's essentially ingrained into society at this point.

Think of it this way. When they run a contest on twitter, some people who don't currently play the game may see it, and go "Wow, that game is still running? They're doing contests? Maybe I should check it out again."

The short of it is probably that I'm just that "old and grumpy" (perhaps a little bit stubborn too), and much dislike most things that one might call "Web 2.0".

I'm definitely not saying they should not do these things via social media at all, but I'd very much like it if they'd also use these here forums at the same time (at least while we still have these forums at all...).

[Sirmarki]

The short of it is probably that I'm just that "old and grumpy" (perhaps a little bit stubborn too), and much dislike most things that one might call "Web 2.0".=

Nah, you're not. It used to be OK when it was initially created for contacting old friends and such and sharing photos. Then it lost the plot: newsfeeds started appearing, current events, politics, the 'oh look at my wonderful life photos' (when I knew their life was far from it), adverts, pictures of peoples dinners, pouting, and cats.
Realised that after an amount of time it was slowly killing my brain cells, so I removed myself from all of it.

[Alhanelem]

You had me up until cats. Everyone loves cat pics. :p