Regarding the Revision of the Prohibited Activities and Account Penalty Policy

[Kaedan]

Social ostracization is the ONLY appropriate punishment for bad social behaviour; and social ostracization is something you can do in ANY social environment, and its actually EASIER to do in an online environment than in real life.

What other punishment are you going to suggest? Forced blacklisting? That people aren't allowed to decide for themselves if they want to associate with someone or not?

1) Simply ignoring/blacklisting someone only helps AFTER the fact, and only helps for verbal offenses. It also doesn't punish the offender.

2) Social shaming/ostracism doesn't work in an MMO, especially in FF14 since we have giant data centers and the ability to move servers. It's also generally against the ToS of 99.9% of games to name and shame. Interestingly, it used to work a decade ago because populations were small enough.