Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Moshantu]

The problem with this mentality is that we already had a perfectly fine system in place, where if you actually did anything bad to somebody, you'd get in trouble.

Now, the new system is that if you "hurt" somebody (which can be anything) you can get banned no matter what it was, if the GM is in a bad enough mood.

I think you're over-estimating how difficult it is to actually get -banned.- Banning isn't their step 1 unless it's a -very- serious violation, which likely involves things like death threats, spreading personal information with malicious intent, that sort of thing. And that goes beyond the things covered as "nuisances" or "offensive" and goes more into full-on harassment, which the rules for are much less vague.

Also can we call a moratorium on this "if the GM is in a bad mood..." cherry-picked argument? How grumpy does everyone think these GMs are? How -unprofessional- do you think they are? Can it happen? Of course it can. But it's not even close to being common enough to be considered a behavioral trend. It's basically fear-mongering. I fully expect to be linked reddit and forum posts of examples where people have been on the receiving end of a GM in a bad mood, but those are examples out of how many cases? How many open tickets ended that way? Let's say that I am somehow linked 1,000 examples of GMs in a bad mood. That would mean that to even be 1% of all tickets, there'd have to have only been 100,000 tickets in all of FFXIV:ARR's lifetime. And I know there's far fewer examples than 1,000, and far more lifetime report tickets than 100,000.