Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Lium]

Let's be real, these rules are gonna be abused by two types of people. 1. the type we all wanna punish, the actual toxic players, and 2. the overly sensitive players that can find just about anything to be problematic.

The ones who will suffer from these rules? The average player.

Nothing is going to be abused. I guarantee you nothing will change from how it is now. I guarantee it. People are just overreacting, as usual. And you know how I know that? Because of all the MMOs I play or have played, FFXIV had one of the nicer communities around. Go to any fansite, blog, or gaming website and FFXIV is frequently cited for having one of the best communities. By far. Anecdotally, I've rarely had a bad experience with other players in this game. That's quite different than my experience in WoW, SWTOR, Tera, and Aion. Or pretty much any console game I've played. In those games people just troll for the sake of trolling.

Now, that raises a legitimate question as to why SE felt the need to make these changes if the community was already good. Perhaps something(s) have happened that caught their attention. Maybe they've seen an increase in harassment and exploiting. Or maybe they're just doing this to get ready for the influx of players that will come Shadowbringers. Who knows?

At any rate, I didn't have any problems before and I can 100% guarantee that I won't have any problems now.

And you won't either.

[Xtrasweettea]

Nothing is going to be abused. I guarantee you nothing will change from how it is now. I guarantee it.

Apparently, you do not right rules or deal with customers that want to pay as little as possible and want the moon and stars for it.

I write customized service level agreements (SLA) for a living. If I wrote an SLA that would be tied to any of these broad rules that are like the rule SE put out, I would be out of a job. The company would be losing money hand-over-fist because of the openness of these rules.

These rules are ripe for abuse. There are no definitions for any of these words. You can't point to the dictionary. These companies do not use the dictionary to define their terms. For example: The term "outage" is different in Webster's dictionary than what is used in my company. I have customers who's definition of "outage" was different then ours. I have to write SLAs around who's definition we will use.

SE has to define the terms to lessen abuse. I can guarantee from real life experience, abuse will happen if they do not.