Circumvention of the blacklist function.

[Balderak]

Since you love reporting people for your interpretation of the "violation of the Terms of Service of Final Fantasy XIV Online", riddle me this.

200 identical roes, or 200 copy-pasted Cat girls and Femras. Please do elaborate where the difference is.

I'll wait.

Personally I would rather have the roes. Less of an eye-sore.

Everyone's case is different. Mine involved an individual who was abusing the free trials offered graciously by Square Enix that is intended for people who want to try the game before they commit to paying anything. The individual was effectively circumventing a key feature of the blacklist by having well over 200 accounts to rotate through in order to continue filling space for those who had started to blacklist them. This behavior is considered to be disruptive, and therefore, against the Terms of Service of Final Fantasy XIV Online.

If you find that anyone is deliberately being disruptive with their behavior in-game, I suggest you use the Support Desk function to report them yourself. Detail your post and speak with a GM if you are contacted by one for any further clarification.

[Verty]

Everyone's case is different. Mine involved an individual who was abusing the free trials offered graciously by Square Enix that is intended for people who want to try the game before they commit to paying anything. The individual was effectively circumventing a key feature of the blacklist by having well over 200 accounts to rotate through in order to continue filling space for those who had started to blacklist them. This behavior is considered to be disruptive, and therefore, against the Terms of Service of Final Fantasy XIV Online.

If you find that anyone is deliberately being disruptive with their behavior in-game, I suggest you use the Support Desk function to report them yourself. Detail your post and speak with a GM if you are contacted by one for any further clarification.

Alright, maybe some colorful pictures will help. So let me illustrate this for you.



This is a picture of Twintania, at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, all other servers on Light look like this right now.

This is a picture of Raiden at the same exact time. Spot the difference.



Hint: 90% of the people you see here are not from Raiden, but from another Server/DC. Yet, they've been over here for months and months, afking in "their" same spots, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There's too many of them to blacklist them all.
Should they also be reported/banned for being "disruptive", "hindering load times" or "negatively impacting Raiden players performance"? I'd rather not have them here. They make my FPS drop too.

To get to the point. Your pictures of the Roes on your server, and my picture of Raiden is exactly the same. Are you starting to see how ridiculous your request for banning people over it is?

[Balderak]

Alright, maybe some colorful pictures will help. So let me illustrate this for you.



This is a picture of Twintania, at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, all other servers on Light look like this right now.

This is a picture of Raiden at the same exact time. Spot the difference.



Hint: 90% of the people you see here are not from Raiden, but from another Server/DC. Yet, they've been over here for months and months, afking in "their" same spots, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. There's too many of them to blacklist them all.
Should they also be reported/banned for being "disruptive", "hindering load times" or "negatively impacting Raiden players performance"? I'd rather not have them here. They make my FPS drop too.

To get to the point. Your pictures of the Roes on your server, and my picture of Raiden is exactly the same. Are you starting to see how ridiculous your request for banning people over it is?

Your issue and mine are not exactly the same. Mine involved a single individual whose behavior was considered to be disruptive. Yours involves multiple individuals simply existing within a single space as far as I can tell.

If you believe that anyone is in violation of the Terms of Service of Final Fantasy XIV Online, I suggest you use the Support Desk function to report them. Detail your post and speak with a GM if you are contacted by one for any further clarification.

[Verty]

Your issue and mine are not exactly the same. Mine involved a single individual whose behavior was considered to be disruptive. Yours involves multiple individuals simply existing within a single space as far as I can tell.

If you believe that anyone is in violation of the Terms of Service of Final Fantasy XIV Online, I suggest you use the Support Desk function to report them. Detail your post and speak with a GM if you are contacted by one for any further clarification.

They're exactly the same issue.

200 roes afking in the same spot for weeks = 200 wanderers/travelers/posers afking in the same spot for weeks.
They're both unnecessary and a draw on performance. The roes probably even less since they'll use already cached assets.

Asking to ban the roes for being "disruptive" (read: literally just standing there) would mean you'd also have to have the posers banned for the same reason. Which makes this request so ridiculous.
But given that you seem to be just trolling with the same copy-pasted line every post, I doubt you'll ever see it.

[AuldMann]

I believe the core issue here is that they are intentionally creating dozens of accounts for the sole purpose of making it impossible to blacklist them. If I don't want to see any old person just "standing there", then I can blacklist them, problem solved in one easy step. Weeaboo Police is exploiting the game's systems to make that impossible.

[Balderak]

I believe the core issue here is that they are intentionally creating dozens of accounts for the sole purpose of making it impossible to blacklist them. If I don't want to see any old person just "standing there", then I can blacklist them, problem solved in one easy step. Weeaboo Police is exploiting the game's systems to make that impossible.

Your forum post is what inspired me to further investigate and take a stand on the issue. I appreciate you for taking the initiative originally.