Pertaining to this thread: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/19050-GM-s-are-Useless!

How are we supposed to get support for this? I couldn't get a GM to help me there, what if I were stuck outside the game boundaries and couldn't get out, so the only way to leave was to have a friend contact a GM? Am I supposed to just quit playing the game until SOMEONE at SE decides to help? When you go to the site, I'm told to call for help from a GM in-game!

What the hell!?

I came here to ask for further help and my thread gets closed before I can get an ACTUAL conversation with an admin.

DO NOT LOCK THIS THREAD!

I want REAL help. Not this automated "find your answer somewhere, on your own" crap.

GM's actually CAN help with other calls like that. I know this for a fact because I've had this happen before. REPEATEDLY. This issue has been around for at least 4 years. Every time I have had it happen to me or a friend in the past, a GM has ALWAYS helped. I've placed more than 60 GM calls. And guess what, I'm actually friends with a REAL LIVE GM! I called my friend and asked him what to do. You know what he told me?

CALL A GM!

How can you flat out lie that a GM can NOT helped distressed players, when my GM friend has told me that in the employee hand book, it says, clear as day, you are to help players in the game with issues that are outside the normal (not verbatim).

Do GM's still even have a sense of humor? I remember "back in my day" when you could call up a GM and ask them to marry you. They would just laugh and say "I'm sorry, I'm married to SE." Or if you got stuck in the waters of Kazham, the GM would join you underwater while talking trying to help you.

Look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b32z4SaT-w0

"I don't think you'll catch anything useful down here."
"Congrats on the Rusty Bucket, use it well."
Do you need it? "No I have a billion of them."

The guy danced for the GM and the GM asked for more. Then the GM comments about being a level 1 GM. Before the GM leaves, he tells the guy, "remember, don't drink the water."

Reading some of the comments, others have reported similar things happening to them.

"Hello Adventurer, Cuddleslave... I see you have decided to go for a swim... I'll rescue you in just a moment!"

Look here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks22dWOjD4k

A GM talks about forming a coalition against a mean Sea Horror.

GM's used to be not only helpful, but funny. What happened?

DO NOT LOCK THIS THREAD, talk to me and resolve this issue.

It's kinda hard to get any help if you keep locking threads before the OP can get any feedback from you.