Mordion Gaol is a bad system

[Avoidy]

NECRO THREAD


You're all being baited by these necro threads.. lol

to be fair, it's still a relevant issue
people still get gaol'd and aren't told specifically why they're there. if you're gonna block me from playing the game i paid a month for, you can at least tell me why so i don't repeat the mistake in the future. shit's so stupid and the people defending it probably post "nothing to hide, nothing to fear!" on their facebook lol

[Ravenblade1979]

to be fair, it's still a relevant issue
people still get gaol'd and aren't told specifically why they're there. if you're gonna block me from playing the game i paid a month for, you can at least tell me why so i don't repeat the mistake in the future. shit's so stupid and the people defending it probably post "nothing to hide, nothing to fear!" on their facebook lol

you and other folks wanna know why. play on the EU servers where they are actually able to tell you. Here they will not because it can result in witch hunting and harassing the person who reported you. so its to protect them more then anything. they will give you a general part of the tos you broke but thats about it. if you honestly can't remember or know what you did then not worth it. just try to be better in that area.

[Payadopa]

I have spent so much money on this games lifetime. I do not want to lose everything, so this was not only traumatizing, it was incredibly scary.

Would a cop be allowed to arrest you and not tell you why you're being arrested? Of course not, so why isn't Square Enix transparent about WHY? How can I improve my behavior and learn about what I did wrong, and how to avoid strikes against my account, if I never even have clear answers?

Okay, why are you conflating a video game with real life? SE is not your local government.

Also, there is nothing "incredibly scary" about it. Would it suck? Absolutely. Is it traumatizing? Absolutely not.

[Minarisweet]

Don’t break the rules and you don’t go there. Never been there in all the years I played.

I agree it’s a bad system though. I would have just banned you.

Kindest official forums user

[Ravenblade1979]

Okay, why are you conflating a video game with real life? SE is not your local government.

Also, there is nothing "incredibly scary" about it. Would it suck? Absolutely. Is it traumatizing? Absolutely not.

i didnt see he tried to make a irl connection. kinda funny putting gm's on the same level as cops

[MsMisato]

So yesterday I got thrown in Mordion Gaol for apparently breaking the rules about offensive content/language. Okay, but why?

While I'm thankful for the GM who released me, I shouldn't have had to wait for five hours to get released, with no indication that the Gaol is where I am I at. Googling about the place gave me more information than Square Enix did. There was no prompt that I had been jailed, no explanation as to why, and no indication that a GM would come help me. It felt like I had to stay at my computer for all those hours, skip hygiene, not bother to cook, or do anything out of fear of being held in limbo longer. The entire process makes you wonder if they're even going to reply to you. It feels incredibly isolated and alone.

I have spent so much money on this games lifetime. I do not want to lose everything, so this was not only traumatizing, it was incredibly scary.

Would a cop be allowed to arrest you and not tell you why you're being arrested? Of course not, so why isn't Square Enix transparent about WHY? How can I improve my behavior and learn about what I did wrong, and how to avoid strikes against my account, if I never even have clear answers?

What they basically did could have honestly been dealt with in a tell while I was online. This extreme process was unnecessary. The entire Mordian Gaol system needs an overhaul. It's so bad for mental health, and honestly at risk of being incredibly corrupt.

I am disappointed. My experience felt incredibly unethical.

Its jail. what did you expect? some cool surprise. It has always been this way even in FFXI. You know what exactly jail means, you did broke some rule in the TOS.
. You said something and one or multiple didn't like what you said. They only will tell what rule you broke. Nothing more nothing less. Its to prevent witch hunting.
But it sounds like you got off with warning so watch the language around strangers even on balmung you gotta be careful.

[Saraide]

Kindest official forums user

Yea by and large I'm glad forum users arent in charge of handing out punishments.

[Masekase_Hurricane]

So yesterday I got thrown in Mordion Gaol for apparently breaking the rules about offensive content/language. Okay, but why?

While I'm thankful for the GM who released me, I shouldn't have had to wait for five hours to get released, with no indication that the Gaol is where I am I at. Googling about the place gave me more information than Square Enix did. There was no prompt that I had been jailed, no explanation as to why, and no indication that a GM would come help me. It felt like I had to stay at my computer for all those hours, skip hygiene, not bother to cook, or do anything out of fear of being held in limbo longer. The entire process makes you wonder if they're even going to reply to you. It feels incredibly isolated and alone.

I have spent so much money on this games lifetime. I do not want to lose everything, so this was not only traumatizing, it was incredibly scary.

Would a cop be allowed to arrest you and not tell you why you're being arrested? Of course not, so why isn't Square Enix transparent about WHY? How can I improve my behavior and learn about what I did wrong, and how to avoid strikes against my account, if I never even have clear answers?

What they basically did could have honestly been dealt with in a tell while I was online. This extreme process was unnecessary. The entire Mordian Gaol system needs an overhaul. It's so bad for mental health, and honestly at risk of being incredibly corrupt.

I am disappointed. My experience felt incredibly unethical.

You're in Jail you s***, shower, eat and sleep when they tell you to. :P

[Zomkei]

It is easy to answer you on that, YOU really need to cross the line to get there, it would be naive to think he is not there for a reason, and he said it himself for bad language/words/swearing/demeaning or whatever thing that could sort under that, so yes it is a system that works.

while i don't know damian's (very old) experience, i can assure you this isn't true. you're naïve if you think the system is flawless. back during HW, i was thrown in gaol for selling content for real money. that's what i was accused of. at the time, they told you exactly what you did (and i think it should still be that way), so i knew what put me there. the reason they accused me of selling content for real money was because i had a raise macro that joked about the (at the time) constant gil sellers sending tells. my macro pretty much said this: "selling raises, 18.99, fast and secure transfers. google [raised person name here]." they pulled me into gaol, claimed i was selling content for real money, showed the literal macro with the person i raised still in it, and STILL said i sold content for real money. how is that flawless? i can't even clear the content on my own for myself let alone for actual money lol.

though, i didn't find it traumatizing or anything, it was such a bizarre experience that they ripped me not even 5 minutes after the normal alexander raid while the same RMT shouter in limsa remained there for over a week and the PFs selling savages remained up as well lol

[Kyrj]

Just once I want to go to the gulag where I will fight a GM to the death and earn my freedom.