Forum posting restrictions

I question the need for both a cooldown and total post limit.

The average player probably logs on the forum (if at all) after a night of playing, quickly skim through the forums and reply to those discussions he/she is interested in taking part. The cooldown means he/she will probably stop after the first post and just go to bed. This is counter productive to building a community.

Remember we don't skim over everything first and then decide, okay, this is the one I'm most interested in, I guess I'll use my 15 minutes here.

As for character limit, I wonder if the devs have considered that character count for Japanese and English are very different. I would hope the limit is at least relaxed to 3,000 characters.

Yeah, these restrictions are a little too restrictive for me. Granted I'm more of a lurker than a poster but only being able to post x times per day and 15 minutes between posts just make me not want to post at all. Whats the point of posting if I lose the chance of posting in a brand new thread that I actually want to discuss things in.

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Originally Posted by Delsus

Also let's not forget that quotes are included in the 1000 character limit so expect a mass of this, (used Jinko as an example, no offence) making the communication even worse (when people are just too lazy to click on the link to the quoted posts.)

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People often block quote an entire post to respond to a single point, or just to carry on a conversation.
It is lazy and bad practice, and I am all for more concise quoting, rather than reams of pointless text.

I wholeheartedly agree with OP. You have my vote.

Never, in my history of playing online games, have I seen a company restrict their forums like this. Especially not for a sub based game.
Worst of all, I have not seen one post giving a valid reason for said restriction. Furthermore I doubt there is even a valid one.
I've stuck it out through the beta phases, even if I was not necessarily happy with certain changes or the lack there of. This however is honestly pushing me past the line of; 'it's SE, I've trusted them for years, I'm sure they will make it worth while' to 'wth is this, the third Reich?'.

I kindly ask, what ever powers that be, to change this ASAP. Let's face it, no game that is kept alive by a community will prosper under such ridiculously restricting guidelines.

My name is Bauric, and I approve the OP's message.

If I had to guess, the thread/post limit is in response to what happened on the beta forums.

Discussions that were meaningful and thought out got buried 3 or 4 pages because of 20 different people felt the need to make their own thread about something that was already being discussed. Not only is the quite annoying, it probably doesn't help the server load either. Will stuff like that still happen here? Probably. But with the limit, it won't be AS bad.

Give it a little bit of time, and I'm sure the restrictions will be relaxed at the very least.

I agree with the OP. We all knew that in the Beta forum things were going to be bad because they were going to be wiped and a lot of people weren't even going to play, they were just there to troll and didn't care at all if they got banned.

I agree the restrictions are to tight. Should be allowed to post as early as level ten there should be no restrictions on number of characters or the amount of thread you start in a day or the number of time you respond in a day. This is about a community sharing information. If someone is spamming then that should be resolved by SE. Not punishing everyone for a few ppls misconduct. I understand the intent behind the restrictions I just done agree with how strict they are I feel it defeats the purpose of information sharing.

I have to agree with many posters here, this seems a tad too restrictive for a subscription model game. I could understand if it was free to play, and anyone on the entire internet could post here, but that's not the case. We are all going to be paying customers here, (at least I assume we all are).

I just tried to make a thread in the healer sub forum, just to get some discussion going about the role, and was informed I'm not high enough level yet. Seems really lame. I guess I'll go discuss healing in FF14 on some 3rd party site.

I just want to be able to make my own thread. There are no posts in the healer section and with my main going to be a white mage.......I wanted to actually post some questions but I can't. I have to wait until EA/launch to level it up to ask questions for it that may come too late.
All of the restrictions need to be thought out again.

Probably had something to do with the amount of troll, flame, provocative, childish, and immature threads that were made from the beginning of alpha to the end of the forums.
I haven't checked on this new forum, but the English thread said "English and child forums" next to it when you clicked on New Posts. That right there says it all.

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Yep. Still there.

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