Ethics and Manners for FF14

[Rinoa]

Yesterday I had a rather disturbing encounter with another player. I was crafting at the blacksmith guild, when a guy walked up to me. He was standing inside of my anvil. It was annoying and it broke my consintration, but I didn't mind so i continued crafting. after four minutes of him standing their, he turned towards me and inched forward. So their i was kneeling while making brass rings, staring strait at his crotch!!!!!! I used rapid synth to scrap the brass rings, And got out of their.
Either he was being immature and taking screenshots, or he was just to stupid to realize wear he was standing. I am not angry at him if it is the latter.
That little incident made me realize that the lodestone is missing a very important page. In the section "Playing with Others" their should be the page called "How to be Polite". Hear are some guidelines I think should be included.

1 It is rude to stand inside another character.

2 remember to give others plenty of space to see their character.

3 Its not very nice to run through someone if their is plenty of room to go around them.

4 Always be polite to other players even if they are rude to you.


That is the only good guidelines that came to mind. What else should be added?

Hear are ones suggested by other players.

5 if you are healed or helped, a polite /bow is a good way to be nice. Who knows, maybe they will become a great friend.

6 translate your text if some players don't understand your language. You can use the built in auto translate or maybe Google translate.

[RabidSquirrel]

Good luck enforcing it.

[SAMINUS]

D**ks should be banned for being so.

[Rau]

2 and 3 sound pretentious.

But in the wards, indicate quality of an item by making the last digit 1, 2, or 3 for +1, +2. and +3

[Starlord]

Yesterday I had a rather disturbing encounter with another player. I was crafting at the blacksmith guild, when a guy walked up to me. He was standing inside of my anvil. It was annoying and it broke my consintration, but I didn't mind so i continued crafting. after four minutes of him standing their, he turned towards me and inched forward. So their i was kneeling while making brass rings, staring strait at his crotch!!!!!! I used rapid synth to scrap the brass rings, And got out of their.
Either he was being immature and taking screenshots, or he was just to stupid to realize wear he was standing.
That little incident made me realize that the lodestone is missing a very important page. In the section "Playing with Others" their should be the page called "How to be Polite". Hear are some guidelines I think should be included.

1 You should never stand inside another character.

2 Always stay one arm-length away from anyone else, except for in crowded places
such as Aetheryte Crystals, Guilds, and Levequest counters.

3 If you are in a crowded place please walk, and do not run.

4 Always be polite to other players even if they are rude to you.

That is the only good guidelines that came to mind. What else should be added?

I totally agree with you, People on MMo's in general can be sick perverts >.>

[Loki]

Sometimes it's like i play with some NPC and not some players, you do an emote : no answer, you cure someone who is in trouble : no answer, you raise someone : no answer, you ask something : no answer.

It's not always the case but most of the time that's it! I don't know why everyone acts like that, we are in a MMO come on...

Aww i know why people forget they are playing with some others players, cause we can solo everything in this game >.< there is no real cooperation.

[zaviermhigo]

This games community is crappy. We got the dregs of mean people from XI, and stupid effing non-mmo players. But in a game thats not established how can anyone teach these heathens our ways? We can't, manners in an mmo I guess died when WoW came out.

[Wolfie]

This games community is crappy. We got the dregs of mean people from XI, and stupid effing non-mmo players. But in a game thats not established how can anyone teach these heathens our ways? We can't, manners in an mmo I guess died when WoW came out.

You know, I always had a problem when people said that FFXI's community was so much better.

It was built around the fact that people are vindictive, and that you're more or less stuck with your character and name throughout your playtime in Vana'diel. People simply weren't direct when they wanted to be douches. Party sucks and you want to leave? Unplug. Other HNM LS showed up? Spam some emotes, crowd around the spawn area, get a bot, try to make smallchat with their main claimer, cheer the monster on when he's kicking their ass, etc. Someone slighted you in an exp/merit/whatever party 2 months ago? Bar him from your group/LS. Someone barely mentions another MMO? Start freaking out calling them noobs/casuals/bads/whatever. Someone didn't play the flavor of the month/season DD class? Worthless player.

FFXI players were very petty and vindictive.

[zaviermhigo]

You know, I always had a problem when people said that FFXI's community was so much better.

It was built around the fact that people are vindictive, and that you're more or less stuck with your character and name throughout your playtime in Vana'diel. People simply weren't direct when they wanted to be douches. Party sucks and you want to leave? Unplug. Other HNM LS showed up? Spam some emotes, crowd around the spawn area, get a bot, try to make smallchat with their main claimer, cheer the monster on when he's kicking their ass, etc. Someone slighted you in an exp/merit/whatever party 2 months ago? Bar him from your group/LS. Someone barely mentions another MMO? Start freaking out calling them noobs/casuals/bads/whatever. Someone didn't play the flavor of the month/season DD class? Worthless player.

FFXI players were very petty and vindictive.

I'm not sure if you were agreeing with or diasgreeing but thats what Im saying. Some Xi players were nicer though, like no one in this game would stop to heal you if you were soloing and dying, but someone in XI would stop watch you, see how you're doing and throw a cure if they were appropriate class, maybe even /cheer if you won. But there were elitist assholes in xi, and there were people who were "ME ME ME ME" in xi, and those people switched over to XIV in the end, cause they couldn't handle not being the center of god damn attention lol.

[Dreamer]

I'm not sure if you were agreeing with or diasgreeing but thats what Im saying. Some Xi players were nicer though, like no one in this game would stop to heal you if you were soloing and dying, but someone in XI would stop watch you, see how you're doing and throw a cure if they were appropriate class, maybe even /cheer if you won. But there were elitist assholes in xi, and there were people who were "ME ME ME ME" in xi, and those people switched over to XIV in the end, cause they couldn't handle not being the center of god damn attention lol.

The "ME ME ME ME" mentality has been an issue in MMORPGs ever since the average player age began dropping; it's not really a problem unique to FFXI. However, there are games where it's not as noticable. For example, I've always found the commnuity in City of Heroes to be simply fantastic, and LotRO's community was quite possibly the best I've seen up until they went F2P.

For what it's worth, however, the community I've seen in-game is much more pleasant than what we see here on the official forums.