Building a Better Gaming Community: The Advantages of a Console-Only Final Fantasy XI

[Mosha]

If the forums were properly moderated any post advocating the use of addons would be deleted and the user would be warned/banned automatically, no need to report anyone

don't believe in the right to critique eh?

SE must stamp out all criticism of their game.

[solimiano]

I'm sorry but... no you're not. You denied disabilities and support, showed no consideration for other people, pushed your opinion onto others and threatened to take actions against them just because they were doing something that the ToS said not to. All of these things are also in the ToS as prohibited actions, yet you didn't care. Are you only going to cherrypick the line about third party tools and ignore that there's a conduct to follow?

And the last time I pointed this out you said "I'm not threatening, I'm informing that I'll take action if I see that happen" ...that's, by definition, a threat. You informing your intent to sleight someone, regardless of morality, to the person to discourage them from doing something is a threat.

Now, I'm not going to bother reporting you for it, that is not my intention. My intention is to make you understand that it does seem rather unthought of to say "I am against the use of anything that breaks the terms of service" when you yourself have been conducting yourself in such a manner that can be seen as breaking it as well.

You'll find plenty of people break the terms of service ever so loosely. It doesn't take third party tools to break it. Please try to rethink your approach when it comes to other people if you truly do seek to fully abide by the terms of service, so that dialogue can actually flow properly even if you disagree with someone's actions or words.

Dialogue about breaking the TOS, no cheers, do you need to break the tos because you have a disability or need extra support? Email SE and wait for their solution.
Oh wait now you can go and rob a bank or commit any crime because you have disability... Not really you can't break the law without facing the consequences.
Anything that breaks tos or advocates breaking tos is prohibited and should be banned.

[Raoabolic]

Dialogue about breaking the TOS, no cheers, do you need to break the tos because you have a disability or need extra support? Email SE and wait for their solution.
Oh wait now you can go and rob a bank or commit any crime because you have disability... Not really you can't break the law without facing the consequences.
Anything that breaks tos or advocates breaking tos is prohibited and should be banned.

Equating mods to robbing a bank?
lol.
lmao even!

[Midareyukki]

Dialogue about breaking the TOS, no cheers, do you need to break the tos because you have a disability or need extra support? Email SE and wait for their solution.
Oh wait now you can go and rob a bank or commit any crime because you have disability... Not really you can't break the law without facing the consequences.
Anything that breaks tos or advocates breaking tos is prohibited and should be banned.

Ah, so that's how you saw it. No, you were conflating using shaders to help with a disability, as well as other tools to help other people out with other stuff like a language barrier, the same as people who use zoomhacks to cheat and parsers to harass. And it seems you're doing it again!! Conflating those as something extreme like a robbery! Are you alright, solimiano? Because this isn't normal.

Do you really not understand that you're breaking the ToS in your advocating crusade as well? You're not wrong in saying that any and all tool is prohibited, that's SE's stance. But there's more to it than that, SE has stated as much, and they act based on it. Could you please be a bit more realistic than just hard-focusing on one line in the ToS and ignoring all the rest?

Again. Please rethink your attitude when it comes to other people, because it's coming across as really dismissive and aggressive. Things that also go against the ToS.

[solimiano]

Ah, so that's how you saw it. No, you were conflating using shaders to help with a disability, as well as other tools to help other people out with other stuff like a language barrier, the same as people who use zoomhacks to cheat and parsers to harass. And it seems you're doing it again!! Conflating those as something extreme like a robbery! Are you alright, solimiano? Because this isn't normal.

Do you really not understand that you're breaking the ToS in your advocating crusade as well? You're not wrong in saying that any and all tool is prohibited, that's SE's stance. But there's more to it than that, SE has stated as much, and they act based on it. Could you please be a bit more realistic than just hard-focusing on one line in the ToS and ignoring all the rest?

Again. Please rethink your attitude when it comes to other people, because it's coming across as really dismissive and aggressive. Things that also go against the ToS.

Informing / telling someone to stop breaking the TOS/Law, if not you are going to report them to the mods/devs/police/authorities is not against the TOS or Law.
Doesn't matter what your condition is or isn't, if you are using something that breaks the TOS you need to be banned, as simple as that.

[Saraide]

Informing / telling someone to stop breaking the TOS/Law, if not you are going to report them to the mods/devs/police/authorities is not against the TOS or Law.
Doesn't matter what your condition is or isn't, if you are using something that breaks the TOS you need to be banned, as simple as that.

If you behave ingame like you do on the forum you can easily get reported and punished, as simple as that.

[solimiano]

If you behave ingame like you do on the forum you can easily get reported and punished, as simple as that.

You can see my character name, come and play and see what is what.
Like I said before, in-game I have no reason to suspect anyone is using third party addons unless they are teleport hacking or stating in the chat they use add-ons ( kinda the same thing you are all saying here on the official forums, at least the ones admitting or advocating for them ), so most likely I'll be very cordial and sweet to you as fellow player e
who enjoys my passion that is final fantasy, I'll go out of my way to help you with anything you need, but if you are cheating I'll go out of my way to report you.
Anyway come say hello in game, as long as you are not using third party adds ons and you'll be welcomed

[Midareyukki]

Informing / telling someone to stop breaking the TOS/Law, if not you are going to report them to the mods/devs/police/authorities is not against the TOS or Law.
Doesn't matter what your condition is or isn't, if you are using something that breaks the TOS you need to be banned, as simple as that.

And here you show a double-standard.

It's bad for people with disabilities, difficulties, whatever, me or anyone else, to use third party tools, yes? It shouldn't matter if there's a condition or any disadvantage, it's not legal, right?
Well, likewise a threat is a threat, regardless of what the threat is about. "Informing to take action" is not allowed. Even if it's about upholding the terms of service, it's still threatening to take action.

You have no moral high ground over anyone else by behaving that way. Let's put physiological/mental conditions or disadvantage talk aside. Your behaviour so far has also been agains the terms of service too. Regardless of whether you want to make the place any better or not, the ToS does not allow you to crusade. And if you truly cared, Square Enix also asked to not go on witch hunts and report wars. So explain to me, please and if you can, why it's okay for you to do that when the very same document you bring up says you can't? Not in the way you're doing it? Because you can defend something without behaving that way.

It's fine to state "It's reportable to have any sort of third party tool", but there are ways to go about it. But you've shown no empathy or understanding, have since been preaching and shut down dialogue. Up until I asked a GM about it, I thought stuff innate to my computer would be fine. Turns out, even Square Enix doesn't really have a proper answer and just says "No tool is okay by our standards", which I took as "it's best to err on the side of caution", figuring it would be best to not use anything entirely. There are ways to approach this, and yours not only is not one, it unfortunately violates the terms you keep putting forwad.

[solimiano]

And here you show a double-standard.

It's bad for people with disabilities, difficulties, whatever, me or anyone else, to use third party tools, yes? It shouldn't matter if there's a condition or any disadvantage, it's not legal, right?
Well, likewise a threat is a threat, regardless of what the threat is about. "Informing to take action" is not allowed. Even if it's about upholding the terms of service, it's still threatening to take action.

You have no moral high ground over anyone else by behaving that way. Let's put physiological/mental conditions or disadvantage talk aside. Your behaviour so far has also been agains the terms of service too. Regardless of whether you want to make the place any better or not, the ToS does not allow you to crusade. And if you truly cared, Square Enix also asked to not go on witch hunts and report wars. So explain to me, please and if you can, why it's okay for you to do that when the very same document you bring up says you can't? Not in the way you're doing it? Because you can defend something without behaving that way.

It's fine to state "It's reportable to have any sort of third party tool", but there are ways to go about it. But you've shown no empathy or understanding, have since been preaching and shut down dialogue. Up until I asked a GM about it, I thought stuff innate to my computer would be fine. Turns out, even Square Enix doesn't really have a proper answer and just says "No tool is okay by our standards", which I took as "it's best to err on the side of caution", figuring it would be best to not use anything entirely. There are ways to approach this, and yours not only is not one, it unfortunately violates the terms you keep putting forwad.

Let's see if I can explain this in another way, this is not a democracy, this a forum owned by a private company.
Noone has a right to come here and talk about breaching the company rules period.
What we have is a privilege, not a right.
Now go anywhere in the real world, and explain to them how your breaking their rules because it suits you and you'll see what real talk is lol.
This isn't Reddit, or 4chan, or discord, this is property of Square Enix, and all of you ( the ones that are breaking the rules by using or advocating third party addons ) are coming here to state that you break the rules and you think it's a good thing.
And you keep discussing it with me like you have hany rights...

[SlouchyBard]

Dialogue about breaking the TOS, no cheers, do you need to break the tos because you have a disability or need extra support? Email SE and wait for their solution.
Oh wait now you can go and rob a bank or commit any crime because you have disability... Not really you can't break the law without facing the consequences.
Anything that breaks tos or advocates breaking tos is prohibited and should be banned.

Everyone, everywhere breaks the law to a certain degree. Doesn't necessarily mean that everyone breaking that law is prosecuted. Take J-Walking for example. Technically illegal depending on where you are, but people still do it everyday. Cops don't enforce it. Its a "grey area". Should I start calling the cops every time I see someone do it?

Now that we are done showing off outside influences. Let's get to the bread. Disabilities. People have them. I have them. Not all of us are perfect without flaws like some people.. But we get by. You are correct on telling people that they shouldn't break ToS/law/rules/etc. But if you are only targeting people with disabilities like it seems to be for the last few days, kinda falls into a different category. Clearly you know the ToS better than I do.

Do you also tell small children that Santa isnt real?