Take your feed back else where

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Originally Posted by Jhanaka

Hello!

Thank you for sharing ideas but as they are from another game, and that game is mentioned, we must close this thread.

We understand that you only wish to make FINAL FANTASY XIV the best game possible, but open discussions about other games is looked at as off topic.

One suggestions I would post for you would be to take advantage of our Feedback Email Support found at our Support Center. This would allow you to directly suggest ideas to our game without fearing going off topic on the forums. You would be allowed to use the names of the games and give examples to better improve our game.

Thank you for your understanding. We may need to remove a few posts as some of the comments due to rule violations.

-Senior Game Master Jhanaka

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Yup. Pretty simple stuff. Don't talk about other games here. This is SE's sandbox, if you don't like their rules they will advise you to play in someone elses sandbox.

Mad they will not be looking into adding Tera's Elin as a race? <_<

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Originally Posted by Zahak

Mad they will not be looking into adding Tera's Elin as a race? <_<

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Well I for one am totally pissed this game won't be turning into Tera. I mean why would SE not want to take the game they've been working on for the past 2 years and toss it out to make it just like Tera??? Its cause of this kind of stuff is why SE will never make it as a modern MMO. They need to rip and steal from every game out there until FF is just a big pile of awesome.

What's wrong with that? SE doesn't want what's essentially advertising for a competing game on their forums. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

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Originally Posted by ToxicFox

Well I for one am totally pissed this game won't be turning into Tera. I mean why would SE not want to take the game they've been working on for the past 2 years and toss it out to make it just like Tera??? Its cause of this kind of stuff is why SE will never make it as a modern MMO. They need to rip and steal from every game out there until FF is just a big pile of awesome.

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my sarcasm detector is tingling, so i'll not flame you

Come on. They block threads that talk about games made by them and you expect that they will not block threads talking about games made by the competition?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47ow4_Cmk0

Looks like they're cracking down on the Forums and locking threads that dont directly relate to XIV. I would get a chuckle if the forums fill up with locked threads and the reason why is the last comment said was "well FFXI had this and XIV should have it to." then a GM replies along the lines of "Thank you for sharing ideas but as they are from another game, and that game is mentioned, we must close this thread." Although I doubt it would happen it would still be a bit humorous.

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Originally Posted by yukikaze_yanagi

my sarcasm detector is tingling, so i'll not flame you

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Originally Posted by AdvancedWind

Come on. They block threads that talk about games made by them and you expect that they will not block threads talking about games made by the competition?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H47ow4_Cmk0

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They lock anything that doesn't involve FFXIV in some way and anything that is a troll/flame fest.

Feed

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BsoHG0oZfP...ng-a-bird.jpeg

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Feedback

http://www.americanvet.ae/sites/site...r_Feedback.jpg

I'm so happy they said that. I'm sick of "Do this thing <insert game here> did!" threads.

I like their approach about this. If was my game/forum I'd be doing the exact same thing.

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Originally Posted by Alhanelem

I'm so happy they said that. I'm sick of "Do this thing <insert game here> did!" threads.

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because XIV should never ever try to learn anything from their competition...

Personally, I think they should open an off-topic or general gaming sub-forum. At least that way they have somewhere to throw those threads instead of locking them.

^ I second this, threads not directly related to XIV are gonna pop up no matter what. would be better off spending that energy figuring out a way to direct it in a section of the forum titled not ffxiv related or something of that nature. Some threads are pretty funny but serve no real purpose and could be moved, like what kind of topic is considered General Discussion? Most threads I read look like they belong in feed back or somewhere else.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

We do not have any plans on opening an off-topic forum. The main reason is that the forums are designed specifically for us to gather feedback and also to provide a place for the community to come together and discuss FINAL FANTASY XIV. An off-topic forum would not further either of those goals and as such we have no plans to introduce one.

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straight from the horse's mouth.

Competition= Keep out of Forums.. Why in the heck would they Want other games being talked about in here.. when they are trying to make a profit?

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Originally Posted by Duelle

because XIV should never ever try to learn anything from their competition...

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You're missing a point here. The thread that got the response quoted in the OP went from "What XIV can use from another title" into "What the other title is doing/how does it sucks/how does it not". Essentially stopping being related to XIV at all.

Well...yeah, you can't break international copyright law.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Well...yeah, you can't break international copyright law.

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While I do agree with you sir there is a country that says To hell with international copyright laws!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqnfQBISgQo

I think the OP spelled "back feed" wrong.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

Well...yeah, you can't break international copyright law.

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Actually, there is technically no international copyright law. It varies from country to country. For example; in the United States you would need to seek NFL approval to feature every NFL team and logo in order to use them in a game - this is how EA killed the NFL2K franchise. However, in Japan, this is not required. So, if a Japanese company wanted to make a boxing game (Hajime No Ippo), they can freely use the WBC, IBF, WBO, and WBA titles without prior agreement.

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Originally Posted by Bayohne

Greetings,

We do not have any plans on opening an off-topic forum. The main reason is that the forums are designed specifically for us to gather feedback and also to provide a place for the community to come together and discuss FINAL FANTASY XIV. An off-topic forum would not further either of those goals and as such we have no plans to introduce one.

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straight from the horse's mouth.

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This is very poor reasoning. If this is a place for the community to come together, then there needs to be something to allow off-topic discussions (or just general gaming). Each of us plays and sees much more than just Final Fantasy XIV, and if anything it would allow community focus to remain here rather than spread it throughout various sites. Not to mention that as a community it would also allow us to help each other out where possible.

WoW's forums happens to have a general gaming/hardware sub-forum, and amidst talking Skyrim, Megaman being abandoned by Capcom, and other MMOs and how they're faring compared to WoW, you also have immensely helpful threads like the primer a poster made for building a PC from scratch, along with several threads asking for OS, anti-virus and hardware advice and people trying to help and give advice as best as they can.

Sure, you run the risk of it turning into something like that trollfest known as Allakhazam's assylum sub-forum, but meh.

OP got lucky imo, some gaming forums will just delete your thread, and any consecutive threads on the subject, send you a warning, give you an infraction, or 24hr temp forum ban (with multiple offenses ofc). the only time you'd really get away with this is when there's a lack of moderation or care for the forums in general.