Why cant we post here?

[Godofgods]

Why cant we post on these forms if our 11 account is canceled for a short time? I recently had mine down for two weeks, and it wouldn't let me post in here at all. Pol that have to leave for a short time still have some relevance here. I can also understand maybe a time limit. If a persons account is deactivated for to long, then they cant post. Simply to avoid spammers and whatnot. But a short time should still be allowed.

[mistmonster]

Because people who are not paying for their accounts might have good reasons and SE doesn't want to hear them?

Edit: I really don't want to knock SE, even by opening the forums up shows they are trying. I just wonder about all the people who transferred their accounts only to find that they could no longer pay and they can no longer post here to say anything about it.

[Alhanelem]

You can't post when your account is not active, because you can't give an informed opinion about game topics when you aren't and haven't actually been playing it.

It prevents every random person who created an account but hasn't played in years from posting trolling nonsense (which happened a lot on the FFXIV boards until those players got locked out from game inactivity)

[Rhianu]

I just wonder about all the people who transferred their accounts only to find that they could no longer pay and they can no longer post here to say anything about it.

If those people really want to leave feedback, the community team does still check all the various community sites. They can post there.

It prevents every random person who created an account but hasn't played in years from posting trolling nonsense (which happened a lot on the FFXIV boards until those players got locked out from game inactivity)

There are people who haven't played FFXIV for years?

[Alhanelem]

If those people really want to leave feedback, the community team does still check all the various community sites. They can post there.



There are people who haven't played FFXIV for years?

For a year or more, yes.The "years" was more directed at this board.
There were a LOT of people posting on the FFXIV forum that hadn't played since the original beta test ended or hadn't played for at least several months, commenting on threads without any actual knowledge of the subject or with the intent to troll by posting topics like "FFXIV sucks!" (with no content or explanation of how it could be made less sucky). As soon as the "cant post if you haven't played the game in 30 days" rule was put in, the vast majority of those kind of threads and posters disappeared.

[Godofgods]

You can't post when your account is not active, because you can't give an informed opinion about game topics when you aren't and haven't actually been playing it.

It prevents every random person who created an account but hasn't played in years from posting trolling nonsense (which happened a lot on the FFXIV boards until those players got locked out from game inactivity)

I do agree with that. And fully understand that point. Thats why i suggested a time limit or something. Like maybe if the account was active within the last month or two, posting would still go threw, but if it was deactivated longer then that they wouldn't.

Using me as an example, Iv been playing the last 5 years, and my account was deactivated for 2 weeks in total. I didn't lose touch with the games mechanics THAT quickly.

[Greatguardian]

Because FFXI changes so much every patch. /sarcasm

Every time I log into XIV, I have to learn how to play it all over again. The patches are extreme, and actually affect gameplay rather than just content.

[svengalis]

For a year or more, yes.The "years" was more directed at this board.
There were a LOT of people posting on the FFXIV forum that hadn't played since the original beta test ended or hadn't played for at least several months, commenting on threads without any actual knowledge of the subject or with the intent to troll by posting topics like "FFXIV sucks!" (with no content or explanation of how it could be made less sucky). As soon as the "cant post if you haven't played the game in 30 days" rule was put in, the vast majority of those kind of threads and posters disappeared.

Only paying subscribers voices should be heard! LOL

[Zumi]

SE choice I guess that only active subscribers to a game can post. Which I think is pretty dumb because on 11 and 14 we did pay money to buy the game game so therefore we should still get to post.

[Alhanelem]

Only paying subscribers voices should be heard! LOL

Yeah, that's exactly right.

You'd think non-subscribers would offer constructive criticism about how to make the game such that they'd be interested in returning. But that doesn't end up happening. Mostly the people who haven't played and don't know what they're talking about just trollololol the paying customers and then it just becomes a fanboy vs hater battle instead of there being intelligent discussion.

You laugh now, but obviously you didn't pay any attention to the FFXIV boards, where this happened on a regular basis from the day they opened til the day non-players were shut out.

Besides, all they had to do was actually play the game for a day and then they could post again- it makes it so that if you care enough to post, then you care enough to play.