Telling a player they should quit? Is that ever justified?

[KaivaC]

So why did you lie about deleting your character?

If you lie to people who were supposedly people you consider friends it just doesn't look good on you, you know?

Lies only hurt yourself and everyone else around you.

Alright, I should shed some light on this. The night I was going to do this, I opened up on the Nervous Eorzean. The good folks there talked to me and convinced me that deleting my character that night was a horribly bad idea and that I would regret it. But make no mistake, the intent was to truly delete my character - I just got talked about of it.

If this is nothing personal, wouldnt it be better to just try to answer the question yourself in the OP? Like: "This is my opinion of it......how do you see it?"

Also I am also a bit surprised to see all these threads from you. If this is nothing personal, how exactly are you coming up with them (just curious)? Because honestly when I post in threads I mostly post in those that I have an opinion about and this opinion should be formed through something.

Anyway on topic:

I do think that there are some very specific cases that justify it.

-If someone loses their health over this, then it would be the best to tell them to quit it or at least take a break.
-Or if they really have nothing left that they will like and will just stay because of not wanting to give it up or because they dont want to lose friends.

I dont think that you should tell it to people that are angry about the game and rant about it (as long as they still enjoy it in ways) because I at least often post negative posts because I do like FF14 and want to still play it for a long time but there could be certain aspects or new parts or developments that could take even those enjoyments away. Most of us that complain and are still playing are doing it because we like it and hope to change something by posting about this and since this is kinda one big reason for the forum you might find those complaining way too much here, which might come of as hating the game while they still like enough but dont talk about because they only have the time to talk about the more important topics which are often those that are not running as one would like. So telling those to quit would be really bad for the game. Because someone quitting is way worse for the game and SE than someone complaining about things. Because then they have at least the chance to make it better.

No offense taken. At this point, I don't think typing that would've prevented what has happened so far. But it's all good. For a good chunk of my threads, it's usually just a curiosity, either from something I saw in-game, on reddit, or had a passing glance at somewhere. That's usually just a huge basis for my threads, and for the ones I want a pure open discussion about, I try to keep my personal opinion out of it unless it's either directly asked for, or it's something that I want to include in response to somebody.