Why is the FF14 Community So Adverse to Banter?

[Carighan]

Admittedly, an argument could be made that FF14's own in-game social tools are lacking in some form or another. Linkshells are finite in how many people can belong to one along with server restrictions, free companies often feel like you're just there to generate company credits for the leader/officers submarine farms, and how many people even know that fellowships exists much less belong to one? Even Novice Network is "invite only" and its easy to be kicked from it, despite some people's attempt to use it as a type of "world chat".

Now I'm thinking, despite this FFXIV is still the game that makes it easiest to socialize ingame, no?

It's one big downside is the constant rolling GCD. That's something GW2 does better, if things are on CD, your #1 filler will fire automatically so you are free to chat. But beyond that, the combination of slow GCD, entirely predictable fight progression, entirely predictable rotation and extra chat systems are nice compared to other MMORPGs. Not good at all, but (sadly) still best in class?

Rule number one in FFXIV : Never use ingame chat, anything but literally anything including the simple word " silly/dumb"stupid" its enough to ban your account.

I so wish, reading comments like this, that the FFXIV devs posted publicly what people said that got them banned. The Guild Wars 2 team did that for a while, and it was hilarious. People like "I just said someone was dumb! WTF I got banned!" and then they post the chatlog and it was some 4 minutes racist rant or something like that. Every. Single. Time. It was so funny to read how utterly contorted people's view of their own behavior is.