Stop Limiting Forum Posts to 1000 Characters!

[Fornix]

If the character limit was 1500 or 2000, because I can truly convey my thoughts in full within 1500-2000 characters, it would be greatly appreciated.

There should quite simply be no limit at all. This forum is the only forum I've ever encountered which has this sort of restriction in place. It serves no logical purpose, whatsoever.

[Souljacker]

There should quite simply be no limit at all. This forum is the only forum I've ever encountered which has this sort of restriction in place. It serves no logical purpose, whatsoever.

The first forum they had for XI well over a decade ago was even more heavy-handed, if you can believe it. As a company, I believe that SE just doesn't want to hear thoughts that are critical of their games, especially this one. They stick their heads in the sand, willfully misinterpret things we ask for (like open-world bosses, queue fishing, etc.) and then go out of their way to cherrypick things out of the "ask us questions" threads that they had already decided they were going to reveal. It's actually quite disappointing, because YoshiP had an open dialogue for a while there and now it's just going back to the same old Square Enix.

The limitations on this forum are silly and I have never encountered anything like it, either.

[Xystic]

There should quite simply be no limit at all. This forum is the only forum I've ever encountered which has this sort of restriction in place. It serves no logical purpose, whatsoever.

Unfortunately, to us, it may appear to be so but it may have its purpose elsewhere that we may not know of.

Honestly, the traffic on the forums is not heavy enough for me to even use the max allowed posts a day. Many threads are merely repeats and a lot of threads come from the same individuals who aren't really great sources. Once everything is filtered out, there aren't a lot of threads.

Most days, 1,000 character limit is more than plenty and on those days I do feel like lengthy is required, it only takes a few more seconds to get it posted.

People must be really are running out of things to complain about lately if we are rioting over the 1,000 character limit on a forum.

[Sove92]

Most days, 1,000 character limit is more than plenty and on those days I do feel like lengthy is required, it only takes a few more seconds to get it posted.

People must be really are running out of things to complain about lately if we are rioting over the 1,000 character limit on a forum.

But why limit to 1,000 when editing overrides it? In fact, this limit comes from some hack (and apparently poorly made one) they have installed on this forum, the default character limit in vBulletin is set to 10,000 and editing cannot override it. If they truly wanted a limit of 1,000, they could have just used the built-in feature.

[Xystic]

But why limit to 1,000 when editing overrides it?

Like I said, we don't know why but like I stated afterwards, most days, 1,000 character limit is more than plenty.

[LeCard]

Unfortunately, to us, it may appear to be so but it may have its purpose elsewhere that we may not know of.

My theory for this is that the beta/ 1.0 forums had extremely heavy traffic due to all of the issues involved being reported and the limit was added there just to help lower the amount they would need to read in a day and now that those are over they just haven't taken the time/effort to remove that.

(Note: I say 1.0 only because i wasn't there and can't be certain that the limit wasn't in effect then too)

[Sove92]

My theory for this is that the beta/ 1.0 forums had extremely heavy traffic due to all of the issues involved being reported and the limit was added there just to help lower the amount they would need to read in a day and now that those are over they just haven't taken the time/effort to remove that.

(Note: I say 1.0 only because i wasn't there and can't be certain that the limit wasn't in effect then too)

The posting limit is known to have been added as a response to the highly toxic forum community during the beta, just to minimize the damage an individual can do, but as we can see, it is not really that bad anymore and can be removed. 1.0's playerbase was more decent (the obnoxious, loud imbeciles are not going to pay for a game with so many flaws) and by the time the forums were launched, there weren't that many players remaining for traffic to be an issue.

[Xystic]

The posting limit is known to have been added as a response to the highly toxic forum community during the beta, just to minimize the damage an individual can do, but as we can see, it is not really that bad anymore and can be removed.

Most days, its not too bad, but every so often, we still get days where the forum members are sticking knives and anything potentially lethal at each other.