The bullying on these forums is concerning

[Themarvin]

No one is really mean but we get assaulted for pointing out how the ToS works... and that should read parts of it an more that can be helpfull to avoid eg. not ending inside the ingame prison and the likes as well.

[Renathras]

I have reported people who were being hurtful to me, ... 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.

Agreed. Been a victim of it myself. Worst is that one of the people doing it reported tons of my posts to get me banned for two weeks, but when I've reported posts that were outright horrible, the person didn't even seem to get a warning. It's REALLY hard having calm and peaceful conversations when there are some people that will literally follow you into different parts of the forums into different threads just to bash you there and try to turn people against you, lie about it in other parts of the forum, and take part in big dogpiles of bashing people all over the place with total impunity.

It's not hard to be nice to people, but some people just want to "win", so they bash and personal attack instead. What's worse, though, is when people try to gang up and dogpile and not one of them can see it. In one of the subforums here (Healer), it's so bad that if anyone goes in there and posts anything positive about Healers, the mob will jump into the thread to either badmouth their views, them, or both. A lot of people just outright turn around and leave and don't post anymore because of how toxic their reception is. Then the people there cheer and talk about how they're the majority when they're actively bashing and running off anyone that disagrees with them. Several parts of the forum have some stuff like that (go into the DPS forum and say good things about SMN), but that's the most egregious case I've seen.

[hagare]

I don't care

[Remish]

I don't care

If you don't care, then why did you post? You cared enough to reply.

[TitanMenII]

Its just funny how people have been asking Square Enix for better moderation and its STILL not happening. How much longer are they going to let these trolls interfere with public discussion. I'm not saying it has to be perfect, but there is rampant trolling. I wouldn't be surprised if the staff stopped taking NA seriously from now on.

It's so unfortunate.

[hynaku]

If forum bothers, you so much that causes distress I would stay away from it and not post on it.

[hagare]

If you don't care, then why did you post? You cared enough to reply.

No. boredom.

[Nyxs]

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.

Nobody here cares enough to bully you ingame. But boy who cried wolf as usual. Thats more of a twitter thing.I see weird witchhunts there all the time because someone said/did one thing that the hivemind doesn’t agree with.

If you dont believe me search things like playing harry potter because you like a wizard world and getting harassed on your stream/twitter over it.

[Antharaes]

Just wanted to wish you all a nice day, nothing more.

[Smollett]

taking NA seriously from now on.

EN, not NA. EU is a thing.