Square Enix - You okay bruh?

[BreathlessTao]

I am ... so confused. Like, really. Shouts, tells, friend requests from RMT - ok. I mean, not ok at all, certainly not in the amount we've been seeing in this game, but well, sort of a bundle.

Cumbersome, unintuitive, inadequate ways to deal with those? Even after one and a half year? That is annoying, at best.

However, RMT creating characters with names like "Sellgils" and such? Like, really? Being that shameless and that direct? Having the opportunity to be that shameless and that direct?? That is simply worrying. Especially when SE claims millions of accounts. For a game to not have the simplest of word filters, at the very least when it comes to character names, I do believe that is outstanding. Incredible. In all the wrong ways, of course.

I do recall talk about restrictions regarding character names, certain words being forbidden - but it seems they really kept it to a bare minimum, to avoid the most basic offensive words. If, at all, because with all this I'm not sure even that is there. What happened to common sense things? The amount of clouds/strifes/lightnings/farrons I see is staggering. And that's just four of the most popular ones. I do also recall having heard they would restrict names so that these, for example, won't swarm Eorzea. What on earth happened to that?? I'm afraid it's yet another of those things they decided to ditch, in order to save bandwidth and decrease data sizes - with how often we hear that, I'm willing to bet on it. But if it really is so... I do believe the situation is even more dire than we've been lead to believe. :/



ON A SIDENOTE, CARE TO FINALLY LIFT THIS STUPID 1K CHARACTER LIMIT ALREADY PLEASE?!

[AdamFyi]

However, RMT creating characters with names like "Sellgils" and such?

This is just another way the RMT are bypassing the chat filters that SE puts in. The character names are there for them to probably to advertise through friend requests.

I do recall talk about restrictions regarding character names, certain words being forbidden - but it seems they really kept it to a bare minimum, to avoid the most basic offensive words.

They have to be very careful when updating the chat filters. There are players that use the chat. They can't just filter out every word the RMT uses because at some point, if they did, it's going to affect the playerbase one way or another.

ON A SIDENOTE, CARE TO FINALLY LIFT THIS STUPID 1K CHARACTER LIMIT ALREADY PLEASE?!

Either you edit your post to bypass it, or stay within the limit. Pretty ironic, wouldn't you say?

[BreathlessTao]

This is just another way the RMT are bypassing the chat filters that SE puts in. The character names are there for them to probably to advertise through friend requests.

Point in fact. They shouldn't be able to do that, which is why such character names should not be allowed to exist in the first place.

They have to be very careful when updating the chat filters. There are players that use the chat. They can't just filter out every word the RMT uses because at some point, if they did, it's going to affect the playerbase one way or another.

I'm not talking about chat filters, I'm talking about character name filters. Given the state things are now, I'm not convinced they are separate lists, but I am pretty sure it could be done. And things being as they are is exactly why they should be separate lists.

Either you edit your post to bypass it, or stay within the limit. Pretty ironic, wouldn't you say?

Again, my point exactly - staying within the limit doesn't really allow for anything to be elaborated (might be more ok for Japanese, because of the kanji, but Western languages are completely different); and the fact that it can so easily be circumvented completely beats the point of its existence anyway. Not to mention the whole method is nothing but an annoying punishment to nobody but those who legitimately just want to express their opinion - unnecessarily overcomplicated, just like, for example, declining friend requests in the game.