Anyone critique the game gets their post removed

[MidnightEquinox]

Yep, I joined the game because of it's non-hardcore stance, and I am more interested in investing time in the side activities like the aforementioned chocobo racing or things like gathering and crafting than I am in cooperative high end combat content, which, IMO, is never truly compatible with MMORPG trappings... I'm surprised hardcore raiding hasn't moved to its own genre at this point, where you just have raid design, parses, skill rating, etc., and not much else.

[Kemiko]

Maybe they didn't mean it in a negative way towards you. Maybe they're just used to doing this mechanic differently in savage and going back to normal they forgot about it and thus wiped

I know for a fact this happens to me going from Extreme Trials to Normal or Hard ones. Mechanics are different enough where after farming EX for so long going back to the "easier" version could honestly be harder. One of the biggest pains of this was Shiva EX back in the day where in normal you don't share the sword attack but in EX you do. So you see the attack go, "Gotta stack with the party" and then kill half the dps because it's not EX. Or just straight up expecting certain mechanics that don't appear.

[Starshower]

I don't know what happened, I missed the other thread, but if now the moderators are taking action and "censoring" the forums this is good.

I remember a while back there were multiple, nasty topics on the main page full of homophobia and they remained there for a looooong time. It's about time these forums get moderator attention.

[Remish]

I'm just happy to have a sign that the forums are still moderated. It's been awhile since we have had moderation.

[Poporito_Popoto]

That thread doesnt seem too promising to new players right? Good to know all my points were lies!! I am done engaging here LMAO

[Tanis_Ebonhart]

That thread doesnt seem too promising to new players right? Good to know all my points were lies!! I am done engaging here LMAO

They were.

You're moving the goalposts after you were called out on your absolute statement being incorrect.

[MidnightEquinox]

The forums could use a bit more moderation, if anything. There are several threads where it's the same two people speaking past each other and could as well just take it to PMs.

[Beytran70]

These forums are better moderated than Novice Chat, that's for sure.

[HyoMinPark]

It's early MSQ content and had to be completeable by everyone. it also has been insanely overgear cheesed. There is something to be said for properly scaling old content so that people running it don't get the experience you had.. but I'd say right now those fights are more like interactive cutscenes than actual fights.

OP purged their opening post, but I just wanted to comment on this—

Even in HW—at launch—Thordan’s normal trial was a joke and a bit of a let down. I remember getting there and my friend who brought me into this game telling me that the fight was a wonderful cinematic, but extremely easy and a bit anticlimactic in that aspect. That’s not really the result of gear/item level cheesing. That’s just a poorly tuned fight.
HW was, frankly, full of those.

That said, it was rectified with all future expansions providing a final boss that actually feels like one, while still being great in terms of cinematic impact. So OP at least has that to look forward to.

Just because it’s story content doesn’t mean it needs to be a dummy fight. Which Thordan is, and always has been. That just creates for a disappointing ending to an epic.



On topic—

Critiques tend to be removed if they are hostile in nature. That said, I have seen completely valid and respectful posts removed in the past. My first warning I ever got on here was for critiquing the lack of in-game tools to help teach rotations—I was polite in my criticism, and I wasn’t arguing with anyone; just stating outright that I didn’t like that. And my post was removed and I was issued a warning.

But I think moderation has since lightened on this. Criticism is necessary to growth—even the negative criticism. It’s all in the delivery, usually, that determines whether a post will stay or be removed. People don’t always come from a bad spot when they criticize. A lot of criticism can come from people loving something and simply wishing to see it improved.

[MidnightEquinox]

These forums are better moderated than Novice Chat, that's for sure.

Depends on the Novice Chat. Mine's very clean, but it ultimately comes down to luck of the draw in terms of which mentors end up managing it.