Harassment and abuse in FF14

[Vinupra-Rosa]

No it has nothing to do with that. Look, I understand people finding themselves upset and feeling manipulated but it is a hard pill to swallow that there's an organised group of people consistantly gaslighting and actively hunting someone down for weeks on end. And, if you are online, and in a bad situation, you can block people. If you are cognitive enough you can stop things. Block and move on. I've met many manipulative people online. You move on, you let yourself come to terms with that some people are shitty and drop it.

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

And one that's easy to avoid. Block. And if it did end up hurting you this bad. Go to therapy and recover.

Why is going to therapy a bad suggestion when someone is stressed and hurt?

Sad thing is that I am -vaguely- aware of certain individuals who have huge sway in their friend groups, and have people willing to help them carry out vendettas. While I never looked too much into it, they have acted on digging dirt on someone and... doing things until the offending person leaves. I also know someone who has more than enough money to burn, has people backing them on twitch, and is persistent in targetted harrassment to the point where bans will just have them buying new accounts.

It's a doozy, but they exist so there is the possibility OP's situation is real.

In which case, I too would advocate therapy and/or protective services.

[WoW]

Fellow hairstyle acquaintance, let us not go down such a slanderous route we are above that.

Look at the evidence, fellow hairstyle acquaintance. They are a purple haired Miqote. And you know what they say about purple haired Miqotes.

[Rinhi]

No it has nothing to do with that. Look, I understand people finding themselves upset and feeling manipulated but it is a hard pill to swallow that there's an organised group of people consistantly gaslighting and actively hunting someone down for weeks on end. And, if you are online, and in a bad situation, you can block people. If you are cognitive enough you can stop things. Block and move on. I've met many manipulative people online. You move on, you let yourself come to terms with that some people are shitty and drop it.

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

And one that's easy to avoid. Block. And if it did end up hurting you this bad. Go to therapy and recover.

Why is going to therapy a bad suggestion when someone is stressed and hurt?

there are plenty of google docs about similar things happening in XIV with documentation and plenty of screens online, it's not far fetched at all

[Infindox]

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch

Not really. I didn't read everything this person posted but I can activcly in game point out fcs and groups that act cult-like.... And most people stay away from them. Though, I do agree with you about therapy, remember some people have little access or not enough to pay for it.

[Nayout]

In Hyperion there is a FC dedicated to making PR and ERP where there are rumors that once you enter that FC it is impossible to leave it because they do manipulative tactics in addition to the fact that the people who have left it are persecuted.

I have a drama with a FC that has invented a movie about me due to some differences of opinions where they have practically dedicated themselves to speaking lies to other guilds of me so that they do not play with me lol

In Gilgamesh a girl was dedicated to manipulating Simps and then destroying their virtual life with blackmail and photos while they were harassed by the followers of this girl to the point that when she changed to Moogle people celebrated this and began to warn people of that server about that girl

[strawberrycake]

Around the time a friend of mine got into XIV back in heavensward, they met a person on their original server they started on, said person actively manipulated them for for around a year ina half. They used mental, verbal, and emotional abuse to keep them around. From what they told me they essentially looked for people who were specifically lonely and depressed, usually suffering from break ups or family death, from their they would lull them into a sense of security and actively befriend them and become a support figure.

Once all of that was situaited they would ERP with them and creat this Idyllic relationship, all the while they would cheat on them and then eventually creat a harem around themselves, as this harem would form they would pit all the other against one another for attention, going as far as making people within this harem turn on someone fr not wanting to do certain things, such as watch anime, playing games, just sitting around to be available all day in case said person wanted to do things.

As a whole its left long term mental scars and its hard for them to trust people like they used to.

People in this game will go through and do horrible things to people for thier own enjoyment and their own horrid reasons.

[LittleImp]

This type of post is highly unusual both in it's content and presentation.

Whether the incidents you describe are real or not, it's fairly evident that you're experiencing intense psychological consequences, and I urge you to seek some form of professional help.

What you are describing is worryingly consistent with the types of delusions paranoid schizophrenics experience, and the onset of schizophrenia can be specifically heralded by sudden changes in vision and other optical abnormalities. I've spent a lot of time around people struggling with schizophrenia, as it runs and my family and I have a few friends who suffer from it as well. I think it is very much worth your time to see a professional about all of this.

Best of luck.

[Caurcas]

So the take away from this is to not trust any degenerates that play 14. Good message that I can get behind.

[Controller]

Holy Great Wall of Text! For future reference you can edit your original post to add most or all of the rest into the same one. Honestly, I'm not going through all of that, but figured I'd try to help you stay more organized. lol

Bruh... it was a page and a half long. she should've provided ad breaks.

[Theodric]

If it was one person doing this it might've been believeable,b ut a whole cabal of people actively engaging, let alone organising this vague cultlike speech in a fricking game? It's a bit of a stretch.

You don't believe that people in this community could band together on, say, Discord to organise the harassment of someone they've decided to target? It does happen.