The 3-Strikes Policy - Is it really a good thing?

[Ralph2449]

It's just weird that they wouldn't block profanity altogether if they didn't like it that much.
why make it something you can do if you don't want people doing it

Filters never stopped anyone really, plus you never really needed to use profanities if you truly wanted to attack someone, which is why you cant simply ban only words and need to be flexible based on the situation.

What SE seems to actually want to fix is how normalized and accepted slurs, insults, attacks, hateful speech is for many western gamers whenever they mean it or use slurs as a "joke/banter/etc", you see that in almost all other popular online games yet not in FF14, and simply because of that I think SE arent wrong to actually care about the quality of the community and ingame chats and thus take draconian measures.

Because that kind of behavior is accepted and normalized in most other games it doesnt mean it should be tolerated and let spread, the fact that they take action and try to fix that kind of behavior is a huge positive in my eyes because I dont think i ve seen a game company of a relatively popular online game ever try to tackle this issue outside of meaningless and fake platitudes.

[MagicAura]

Filters never stopped anyone really, plus you never really needed to use profanities if you truly wanted to attack someone, which is why you cant simply ban only words and need to be flexible based on the situation.

What SE seems to actually want to fix is how normalized and accepted slurs, insults, attacks, hateful speech is for many western gamers whenever they mean it or use slurs as a "joke/banter/etc", you see that in almost all other popular online games yet not in FF14, and simply because of that I think SE arent wrong to actually care about the quality of the community and ingame chats and thus take draconian measures.

Because that kind of behavior is accepted and normalized in most other games it doesnt mean it should be tolerated and let spread, the fact that they take action and try to fix that kind of behavior is a huge positive in my eyes because I dont think i ve seen a game company of a relatively popular online game ever try to tackle this issue outside of meaningless and fake platitudes.

Just love the way you put it in perspective, in a succinct and yet very clear manner. This normalisation is what SE is trying to avoid and why I think what they do is a good thing.