Square Enix now threatens to send players to jail for criticizing their employees

[Yshnal]

I appreciate the pearl clutching but your post was, and continues to be in your response, far from reasonable.

Where was I being unreasonable, exactly, at the quoted part of that post? Isn't it true that in order to terminate your access to their game services they need to know who you are, and that the only way to do so if they don't go the legal route is to have access by themselves to that information? Isn't it true that the only way that they can do it is if you're either on one of their platforms, or a public figure that publicly shows their characters/account? And isn't the latter the one that isn't covered in the ToS?

Moreover, even if you disagree with that, was it neccessary to post that picture instead of rebutting it with your own argument? Twist it however you want, but it was ironic that you had called other people toxic and then you ended up doing that. And I pointed it out, since in the end it seems that the people dismissing other people's worries might be the ones actually being guilty of what they say that others are supposedly doing. That's not "pearl clutching", but noticing someone being an hypocrite.

They can ban people for whatever they want and that has always been the case. It's right there in the game's ToS:



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The same goes for the forum as well:





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It is an absurd feat of mental gymnastics to twist a policy that's basically "don't be a jerk to our staff" into "omg they're going to silence all negative feedback!!!!1" when they could have done that at literally any point in the last ten years and chose not to. No reasonable person would ever come to that conclusion much less actively fear its repercussions.

I knew that you would end up resorting to quoting the ToS. You're comparing the ToS, which apply to the forums and the game and that you're offered to read and agree before using those, to a policy that you need to purposely go to their website to read, that you don't need to agree to, and that applies to literally everywhere.

So, I ask you again. Does the new policy not state what I explained in the previous posts? What's the difference between you and the people being wary of how it can be used? It would be cool if you could answer these easy and straightforward questions instead of actually doing mental gymnastics to avoid doing so.