The Rain Nightclub event

[Deveryn]

They didn't quote the wrong person, more specifically sarcastically replying to this.

Looking for an argument. Big surprise.

[Renalt]

Looking for an argument. Big surprise.

They really aren't but you just go on being you buddy.

[Deveryn]

I will say while I hope the damage from the billboard is minimal, I doubt nothing will happen. If nothing else this was a pretty flagrant rule break on several levels so I imagine even if not immediate, there will be consequences. Like the Modding community is getting increasingly dumb about things and Square Enix will only look the other way for so long.

Yeah, particularly with the appearance mods, they just get lost in it and lose any sense. I wouldn't be surprised if a few tried to enter the screenshot sweepstakes and got caught.

[Zer0ofTime]

This just in: the whole thing was a set-up by SE to do stress tests without telling us they're doing stress tests.

You joke, but no official word from SE, Nothing said officially about the billboards, the party went off without much of a hitch, so I bet Yoshi-P got the network team together and monitored numbers all night for a stress test to see that they need more than 1500 person slots in wards, a residence priority system, and how many travelers to locations and how the servers for those locations handled the load for their new cross DC travel.

[Zer0ofTime]

Yeah, particularly with the appearance mods, they just get lost in it and lose any sense. I wouldn't be surprised if a few tried to enter the screenshot sweepstakes and got caught.

Honestly, this is in part cause of the influx of WoW players, and they have no issues with running addons/mods. It's going to either be SE plants their feet firmly in the dirt and starts banning all their new player influx, or changes with the times and takes a more official stance on what kind of addons it would be willing to allow.

[Deveryn]

You joke, but no official word from SE, Nothing said officially about the billboards, the party went off without much of a hitch, so I bet Yoshi-P got the network team together and monitored numbers all night for a stress test to see that they need more than 1500 person slots in wards, a residence priority system, and how many travelers to locations and how the servers for those locations handled the load for their new cross DC travel.

They're weighing their options and keeping an eye on things. I'm sure someone lowkey checked what was going on. We won't hear anything though, unless a third party confirms a ban or something.

[Necrotica]

They're weighing their options and keeping an eye on things. I'm sure someone lowkey checked what was going on. We won't hear anything though, unless a third party confirms a ban or something.

You got the insider scoop? Or are you just talking completely out of your ass?

[Deveryn]

You got the insider scoop? Or are you just talking completely out of your ass?

The former. I'm sure you could teach me how to do the latter.

[Jojoya]

I will say while I hope the damage from the billboard is minimal, I doubt nothing will happen. If nothing else this was a pretty flagrant rule break on several levels so I imagine even if not immediate, there will be consequences. Like the Modding community is getting increasingly dumb about things and Square Enix will only look the other way for so long.

I'm guessing Materials Usage License and TOS will end up with some updates with respect to public advertisement of player sponsored events.

There will probably also be clarification regarding sharing of datamined information regardless of the person responsible for the datamining.

It's probably not worth SE's time or expense to do more. Maybe there are some temp bans for those involved?

I don't think the modding community in general has anything to worry about. If it weren't for a few individuals screaming "hey, that's modded/datamined stuff", most of us in the community would have been ignorant of the details and would have forgotten what was on the billboard by the time Moonfire starts.

[Knot_D]

I don't think the modding community in general has anything to worry about. If it weren't for a few individuals screaming "hey, that's modded/datamined stuff", most of us in the community would have been ignorant of the details and would have forgotten what was on the billboard by the time Moonfire starts.

Somehow this is funny because people shouted it's datamined gear, while others don't know if it's really datamine or not, which means they spoiled those innocent people lol