Free trial accounts being used to obstruct zones by one guy (Weeaboo Police/CIA)

[hydralus]

My 2 cents is..

For what purpose is this player just... 'standing there'? Especially with the volume of characters used...

Not that I personally care, but I think the intent is a lot more than 'I'm just standing here AFK'

It's really the intent that separates this instance from the bog standard actually sitting there AFK people.

Do you know what the intent is? Because if intent matters but we don't know what the intent is, then it's moot.

[MsMisato]

So I see the Weeaboo Police are still around serving the fine upstanding citizens of Eorzea.

Every time I go to Aether and visit Sagittarius im just blown away how safe Limsa is.

[Shialan]

And why does someone afking in Limsa warrant them being hated this much?
I would get it if it was people who were mad at his RP of being racist vs Lala's but this is just about them existing considering the times they actually talk are so minimal.

Okay, so you wouldn't mind multiple male Viera standing next to each other in underwear? Or multiple female Au Ra?

[Jojoya]

My 2 cents is..

For what purpose is this player just... 'standing there'? Especially with the volume of characters used...

Not that I personally care, but I think the intent is a lot more than 'I'm just standing here AFK'

It's really the intent that separates this instance from the bog standard actually sitting there AFK people.

Perhaps the player is engaging in a psychological study about how some human beings let the existence of an innocuous thing bother them to the point they think it's no longer innocuous.

I agree it was a problem at the beginning when there was some verbal abuse involved but that stopped long ago. Now it's just a bunch of player characters standing around doing nothing like just about every other player character in at the Limsa Aetheryte Plaza. Super easy to ignore any time I encounter them.

If someone goes "it's not so easy to ignore when I'm always at the Aetheryte", maybe don't spend so much time at the Aetheryte. Utilize other spots within Limsa (or whichever city you're in) instead while you wait in queue or for your party to form. Go inside the Bulwark. Walk down to the Hawker's Alley Aetheryte and hang out there with your friends. You'll still be able to see what's going on in the same shout chat since you're still in the same zone but you won't have to look at them.

It's crazy to me that people won't utilize easily accessible options to avoid what's irrationally annoying them.

Okay, so you wouldn't mind multiple male Viera standing next to each other in underwear? Or multiple female Au Ra?

Players are free to do what they want within reason. If someone wants to have their characters of any race stand around in their underwear (which generally covers more skin than a bathing suit, by the way), that's their business.

In the meanwhile, I'll go about my own.

[Carin-Eri]

Perhaps the player is engaging in a psychological study about how some human beings let the existence of an innocuous thing bother them to the point they think it's no longer innocuous.

I agree it was a problem at the beginning when there was some verbal abuse involved but that stopped long ago. Now it's just a bunch of player characters standing around doing nothing like just about every other player character in at the Limsa Aetheryte Plaza. Super easy to ignore any time I encounter them.

If someone goes "it's not so easy to ignore when I'm always at the Aetheryte", maybe don't spend so much time at the Aetheryte. Utilize other spots within Limsa (or whichever city you're in) instead while you wait in queue or for your party to form. Go inside the Bulwark. Walk down to the Hawker's Alley Aetheryte and hang out there with your friends. You'll still be able to see what's going on in the same shout chat since you're still in the same zone but you won't have to look at them.

It's crazy to me that people won't utilize easily accessible options to avoid what's irrationally annoying them.


Players are free to do what they want within reason. If someone wants to have their characters of any race stand around in their underwear (which generally covers more skin than a bathing suit, by the way), that's their business.

In the meanwhile, I'll go about my own.

Perhaps I'm alone in this, but one element of this I don't really understand is tied to this: "If someone goes "it's not so easy to ignore when I'm always at the Aetheryte".

The Weeaboo Police are, if nothing else, predictable. If someone doesn't like their presence in Limsa, which is where they pretty much always are..... then perhaps click that 'teleport' button and visit somewhere that isn't Limsa?

[Kaurhz]

Do you know what the intent is? Because if intent matters but we don't know what the intent is, then it's moot.

This is ultimately something that works both ways, really.

The only exception is that some people are trying to rationalize it around the player 'simply being afk' - Of which you really don't need several dozen accounts to do.

I think you just need to accept the very strong possibility that they are aiming to (at best) be intentionally disruptive rather than "Hey I am going to create several dozen trial accounts to increase my AFK aura"

Like we can sit here and debate that nobody knows the true intent -- Which yes is true, but what is the most plausible explanation?

[PaulusHamsteru]

They're trolls. If I were Square, I'd just ban them.

[Carin-Eri]

They're trolls. If I were Square, I'd just ban them.

They have been banned in the past.

[MikeCake]

still less annoying than performer bots, who runs midi scripts and have no taste in music.

really makes one wanna go /bgm 0

[Alicie]

really makes one wanna go /bgm 0

it's not bgm, performance is a dedicated channel