FFXIV's weird prostitution hangup

[Theodric]

I still have my doubts that this is actually a thing . I see handwringing about it but have yet to experience this or hear first hand accounts of it.

It's difficult to provide evidence of it given the naming and shaming rules in place, though there's definitely players who weaponise the terms of service in an effort to get people who voice dissenting opinions to their own banned both in-game and outside of it. Indeed, there's even an infamous Twitter page that periodically quotes people from this very forum - often out of context - and all but outright encourages people to get outraged by the quotes, seek out the thread in question where it's from and sift through the poster's history to find some comment or other to cry foul over.

As for me? I've had death threats sent my way over lore discussions. I'm glad you haven't experienced the worst that the FFXIV community has to offer, though there are a lot of very shady players to be found unfortunately.

But, yeah, take it with a pinch of salt. Maybe others can weigh in with their experiences.

[Krotoan]

It's difficult to provide evidence of it given the naming and shaming rules in place, though there's definitely players who weaponise the terms of service in an effort to get people who voice dissenting opinions to their own banned both in-game and outside of it. Indeed, there's even an infamous Twitter page that periodically quotes people from this very forum - often out of context - and all but outright encourages people to get outraged by the quotes, seek out the thread in question where it's from and sift through the poster's history to find some comment or other to cry foul over.

As for me? I've had death threats sent my way over lore discussions. I'm glad you haven't experienced the worst that the FFXIV community has to offer, though there are a lot of very shady players to be found unfortunately.

But, yeah, take it with a pinch of salt. Maybe others can weigh in with their experiences.

Let me clarify.

I have my doubts that swearing in "public" once or twice and then banning is happening.

Almost every time I've seen these claims made, the person who says they never did anything else is combative, unrepentant for the coarse language and tries to defend its use in all cases, and has huge holes in the story or obvious fabrications of facts (GMs getting into detail about the punishment being the common one).

As to the rest, I am well aware of what people online are capable of and doubt none of what you say and have experienced some of it myself. I have said time and time again the FFXIV community is no utopia and in general only differs from other communities in the games structure, rules, and enforcement.


So I hope that clears up what I find iffy.


TL; DR: Online people are sometimes crappy, yes. SE doesn't visibly persecute random coarse language though.