The bullying on these forums is concerning

[BigTough]

I have reported people who were being hurtful to me, and I asked the moderators for help over and over, but I'm not getting a reply. People will NOT stop bullying me no matter how many times that I ask them to. I don't know if anything is being done. How is this acceptable with the games terms of service?

Not only do I witness what I experience myself, but there are a lot of trolls who post nonsense that should have been removed a long time ago, but they are allowed to keep going. Some of the trolls here are a little funny, and light hearted in nature, but I don't understand why the worst ones seem to still exist here.

I didn't want to have to make this post, because I know its going to rile people up, and bring even more negative attention toward me, but I don't know what else to do. I want all of the bullying and ganging up on me to cease. I want to continue to enjoy the game I love, and also be able to post feedback on here without people making me a target.

It is fine when people peacefully disagree with me, or anyone else, but the amount of negativity, ganging up, and hate train style of bullying that I have received does constitute as cyberbullying, and it SUCKS. I have had people send me messages in game with insults. I had to put my character on busy mode for a whole day just to get it to stop. All of my rooms are also locked, because if I don't then someone will come in and bother me about how awful they think I am on the forums.

Square Enix, I am begging you to PLEASE do something about this. Start actively looking through your forum, and pay attention to the amount toxicity and negativity that goes on. I know I'm not the only one who is experiencing things like this here. When you have in game usernames connected to these forum accounts, people can and they do cause problems in the game, and sometimes even real life.

Please just look into your hearts, and think about why cyberbullying prevention is so important. It absolutely does affect peoples self esteem, and mental health. It can't be 100% prevented, but it absolutely can be mitigated.

It is concerning, so is the dev feedback on it, apparently we're just complainers who're just not enjoying the game.

Almost EVERY post I've ever posted on these forums whether it be a suggestion or complaint was met with aggressive hostility and vitriol. All harmless posts that would cause nobody anything to suffer. I see the same exact thing on other peoples posts about any little thing, and they get berated by the masses.

***The bullies are however doing us one favor, by openly showing us their consistent habit to reinforce their abusive, unproductive and negative mindset. This they cannot escape from every time they open their mouths to berate someone or try to gaslight and manipulate someone by trying to turn it all on their victims. We know exactly what it is they're doing and so do they. Moderators should be more responsible than this as well.

[Uvi_AUT]

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Do they know your real name and your home adress? Because a virtual identity cant get cyberbullied. Nothing anyone throws at your Avatar should affect you in any way, shape or form. If that is not the case, you might want to look into your own handling of the virtual space.

[Venandi]

Was it really necessary to revisit this?

Because people "bully" me here too. But how can an ant bully a lion? I just ignore the babbling of people on these forums. For I am a lion unconcerned with the opinions of the ants.

[MilkieTea]

Because people "bully" me here too. But how can an ant bully a lion? I just ignore the babbling of people on these forums. For I am a lion unconcerned with the opinions of the ants.

I mean... if bullying is telling you you're wrong then...

[Naoki34]

Oh sh*t here we go again.

I have the ref !

[Axxion]

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[Wilford111]

What people call "bullying" here is simply the way people talk on forums. Don't come in and expect us to change the way we interact. If you want baby talk go to Twitter or other social media like it.

[TroySoFab]

Because people "bully" me here too. But how can an ant bully a lion? I just ignore the babbling of people on these forums. For I am a lion unconcerned with the opinions of the ants.

I too have been a victum of bullying here. Its so sad, people saying all sorts of negative things towards me. This community is so wonderful at times, but I just hate to see some people spread such ill-will. Oh well I won't let it bother me either. I'll just take your advice and be an ant-lion.

[Lihtleita]

man this just makes me want to bully people

[VictorTheed]

I actually feel sorry for you OP, I hope things go ok for ya in the future.

I'm not into sjw stuff, but I actually felt sad after reading this post, hopefully things work out for ya friend.