Ever since the character information on the side was implemented...

A good number of annoying/troll posters have stopped posting.

Good job SE :D

But there are a few I miss reading for lolz :(

I myself am visiting a lot less, since I've started playing other games and have basically 98% given up on XIV.

It's also been enlightening to see how many of the people who vigorously argue their position on, say, endgame content, barely ever play or haven't played at all in months.

I really play the game! that's why they decided to implement everything that I whined for months

I don't think it made a difference, honestly. There's nothing preventing them from making a R1 troll alt, since alts are free right now.

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I don't think it made a difference, honestly. There's nothing preventing them from making a R1 troll alt, since alts are free right now.

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It's incredibly easy to spot the troll alts/sockpuppets now and ignore them.

I don't troll, but I'm not interested in letting the whole world know who I am with the current state the boards are in.

Should it get to the point where I need a paid character to keep my anonymous status, I'll keep to not posting anymore. Maybe until a day where topics complaining about every thing SE wants to do is at an all time minimum. *thinks about that last sentence* Pfft.

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I don't troll, but I'm not interested in letting the whole world know who I am with the current state the boards are in.

Should it get to the point where I need a paid character to keep my anonymous status, I'll keep to not posting anymore. Maybe until a day where topics complaining about every thing SE wants to do is at an all time minimum. *thinks about that last sentence* Pfft.

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Might I ask, why? I have never understood the idea of separating your forum and in-game name/character/etc. Only other than trolls of course, but you say you're not one!

Just curious~

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I don't troll, but I'm not interested in letting the whole world know who I am with the current state the boards are in.

Should it get to the point where I need a paid character to keep my anonymous status, I'll keep to not posting anymore. Maybe until a day where topics complaining about every thing SE wants to do is at an all time minimum. *thinks about that last sentence* Pfft.

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Looks like Rau is onto something.

Edit: http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...icuid=10841500
Same thing

Maybe I'm just confusing myself

i feel a lot of it too is that the trolls are even starting to give up on this game. You should almost be wishing trolls were here honestly lol.

all trolled out.

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A good number of annoying/troll posters have stopped posting.

Good job SE :D

But there are a few I miss reading for lolz :(

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People say the same thing on the FFXI forums -- It's pretty easy to make a ghost account/mule with level 1 rank and just link that.

This has nothing to do with it, this community is already the pits in general with or without trolls -- just wait till SE announces a new piece of information on lodestone, the forums degrade into pointless better and mud slinging lol.

Expect them to return for updates and big announcements.

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Exactly (mostly). I don't troll but I prefer not to link my main char.

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Exactly (mostly). I don't troll but I prefer not to link my main char.

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Why not?

I'm just curious what the reasoning is.

because it's an ID for trolling

Not linking their mains because then they'll be ridiculed and discredited for not having five R50 classes. Or something circular logic to justify using their mules.

I don't post much any more because I can barely bring myself to play at all lately. I've fast been losing interest in the game over the past month or so. A few main reasons.

The server population must be down to the double digits now on Wutai. This means almost nothing will sell in the market wards and if you're not online at least once per hour to relist all your items (a huge chore in itself) you don't have any hope of selling because of undercutters. This takes the motivation to craft and gather away. I'd no interest in levelling another battle class either until they announce which class gets which job.

Watching half the people I've known and played with over the past 6 months quit, more and more every month to the point where my linkshell now is almost a completely different set of people than it was in January. There's no reason to get to know people because chances are they'll be quitting next.

The butchering of auto attack implementation for archers has killed any interest I had in patch 1.18 so it's wait wait wait for 1.19 and hope that has some nice things.

The delay after delay for the patch itself is also contributing. It's evident that the development team for this game must be in the single digits. I mean since they announced redevelopment in January what have they done? Do you really think auto attack should take 7 months to implement? Hell no. It's evident they only have one person working on the battle system.

It's quite clear that when SE realised the game was a fail they gave it a minimal team to keep it going and try improve it to cash in on PS3 sales. Yoshi might have nice visions for the game but in reality it's not going to happen fast enough to save the game. The game will always be behind other MMOs playing catch up.

One thing SE are good at however is talking things up to keep you waiting. I remember back in like February in an interview where they said they were hoping to implement two patches for the battle system in the next few months. Sure an earthquake hit, but that delayed development by no more than three weeks. In reality we won't see 1.18 until near the end of July and 1.19 at the end of September.

Would you still be playing if you knew in September that the game would still be pretty much the same (minus lag) in July? The content they've added is irrelevant. The NMs were so bad they became obsolete within a week due to their drop and spawn rates and the quests were slaughtered by everyone. Other changes? Where? UI is still the same, crafting is still the same. Only major visible changes are to the market wards.

I'm starting to wish the game would fail so I can justify quitting.

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Not linking their mains because then they'll be ridiculed and discredited for not having five R50 classes. Or something circular logic to justify using their mules.

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Dr. Rau to the rescue lol. My main is 38 with PL 48. I couldn't care less what people have to say about my levels. It's irrelevant and nobody's business.

Upshot of linking characters? Simple. People will now be able to consider if you've tried to play the game or not.

Got a char at rank 1 and are ripping the game apart as if you'd played it solidly since alpha? People will no longer be able to take you seriously.

Got a character at rank 36-50 and rip into the game? You've got a bit of backing for your argument.

Got a character at Rank 1-50 and don't rip into the game and/or troll? That's cool, because you're not trying to be controversial in the first place. Making you not need credentials for your non-existant arguments about the game. ^_^

I been busy playing the game you know beside being on here talking about how much the game fails lol. All jokes aside


i been getting NM gear for both me and my gf and a few friends even a fun Japanese person my gf meet. All the troll would leave
when this game goes P2P. Before this new char link i could talk on the ffxi forums that i need to have a char which = you have to pay for the game. Not if troll really want to pay 12.99$ a month for a failing game like they said and go on trolling then they really have no life.

Im play the game!!!

This isn't facebook, A good majority of the people you interact with on the forums are on different servers. They couldn't troll you if they wanted to in game. Besides, aren't there rules against that, as well as message editing options, in the Lodestone in case you maintain a blog?

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Lol, I have seen that and made a comment about it in another topic. I got to the name first, he tried to copy me and failed on server choice for it.

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Might I ask, why? I have never understood the idea of separating your forum and in-game name/character/etc. Only other than trolls of course, but you say you're not one!

Just curious~

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I did have an earlier character shown in my sig some time back. Ceronyx Nelios, doesn't exist anymore anyway. Now to why I currently hold back from showing myself, I'm afraid of serious backlash because of a comment that may one day slip because of how these forums currently are. Everybody's going about for what SE should do, what they shouldn't do, and there's nothing stopping anyone at this time from making a free character onto your own realm to spam insults at you only because they may not like your comments.

I've seen live streams of people suddenly having viewers create characters on their server just to annoy the hell out of the caster.

Sorry for a late reply. I posted last late last night for me and I was tired.

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Lol, I have seen that and made a comment about it in another topic. I got to the name first, he tried to copy me and failed on server choice for it.



I did have an earlier character shown in my sig some time back. Ceronyx Nelios, doesn't exist anymore anyway. Now to why I currently hold back from showing myself, I'm afraid of serious backlash because of a comment that may one day slip because of how these forums currently are. Everybody's going about for what SE should do, what they shouldn't do, and there's nothing stopping anyone at this time from making a free character onto your own realm to spam insults at you only because they may not like your comments.

I've seen live streams of people suddenly having viewers create characters on their server just to annoy the hell out of the caster.

Sorry for a late reply. I posted last late last night for me and I was tired.

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If they do that then you report them for harrassment, also they cant make unlimited characters because they would need more codes, which in the box you get 2, the one on the manual and the guest pass, so if somone was gonna buy more than one box just to harrass somone over a forum post they have more issues to worry about than harrassing somone over a forum post.

If I see people with a r1 mule linked I would see them as a troll and nothing more, because there is no other reason to link a mule. if people keep spamming you about a forum post it is against the ToS because it is harrassment, there is also the blacklist and you would eventually blacklist all their characters, these people arent rmt that make thousands of mules they are just trolls and will not go through the cost of buying more codes just for troll characters