not many people on the forums?

[Vydos]

Not to mention that things like forums aren't as popular as they used to be a few years back. I've seen a huge decline of forum usage over the past few years. It's still being used, but not as frequently visited by users. Other social media and other ways of communicating has taken a bigger spotlight.

I'm honestly surprised with the amount of people using this forum in this day and age.

[Sove92]

Also, German and French have their own section, that cuts activity from the English section.

[Averax]

People rarely visit forums, or know about them.

The forum community in most games consist of about a handful of the players.

Not to mention the popularity of alternate forums over the official ones like Reddit.

[StrejdaTom]

My FC has 170 members and I do not know anyone who visits forums except me.
Many people just prefer to play and chat with their FC mates and friends, they don't feel a need to visit forums.

Anyways I watch forums and reddit daily and I don't think they are dead.

[Elusana_Celah]

The forums have a daily post limit that I've actually reached once and it's incredibly annoying. Having to edit your post to bypass a pointless character limit is also awful. I also received a 2 week ban for being rude to a girl advertising her youtube channel by using her cleavage and encouraging you to subscribe because she's a 'hot chick'.

Kinda discouraging here tbh.

[Mugiawara]

The forums have a daily post limit that I've actually reached once and it's incredibly annoying. Having to edit your post to bypass a pointless character limit is also awful. I also received a 2 week ban for being rude to a girl advertising her youtube channel by using her cleavage and encouraging you to subscribe because she's a 'hot chick'.

Kinda discouraging here tbh.

The reason is because people in Beta forums screwed it up for the rest of us.
Being trolly and crap so we took the heat with limitations. I am 100% sure we weeded out MOST of those people from 2013
and these limitations needs to be removed now, it's harder to have discussions.

Also watch out, if you get another ban you'll get perm ban and there is no way from coming back, period.
That said, most people got banned on here because getting banned is easy.

@Elusana's below post: The only way you'll get reported is not so much the admin's on the watch...
it's because people are reporting those posts.
[I know what topic you're talking about, I didn't have an active sub to post in it.]
Then again, some people were being completely cruel to her even though her title was so stupid
and it was obvious attention bait...people just got sucked in and the ban hammer was ensured. Tread lightly.
I know personally because I've been banned too but not a single ban in almost a year on this account lol.
It went from 1 warning, to 2 warning but escalated into a perm...So I'd try and be on my best behaviour.
Friendly advice to others also.

[Elusana_Celah]

Also watch out, if you get another ban you'll get perm ban and there is no way from coming back, period.
That said, most people got banned on here because getting banned is easy.

Meh. These forums are definitely over-moderated. That post I mentioned had a ton of people just as irritated as I was and the admin just walked in and banned a ton of people including me but never closed the post or anything? Now I'll get perma-banned if I'm banned again?

Behold, the reason the forums feel dead.

[MugenMugetsu]

Meh. These forums are definitely over-moderated....

If the forums are over-moderated, it begs the questions, "Why is it that requests we make, such as more attention to banning RMT, are completely ignored even though there are more threads than are necessary requesting that SE please focus more effort and attention on banning RMT to improve the game for all existing players as well as any new players who may join in the future?" It seems that the community mods selectively choose which threads they care to reply to even if those threads have little to no impact on the experience of the vast majority of the player base. Sorry, but I'm a little sour about the fact that it seems that pretty much all of our requests for more RMT banning to occur have been flat out ignored.

If a community Mod sees this, please, for the love of the twelve, pass it on to Yoshi P and the Dev Team that the playerbase have absolutely had it with being constantly inundated with RMT /tells to the point that most people prefer to play with /busy status causing them to be unable to be contacted via /tell, accept trades, receive invites, etc.

The RMT problem is out of hand and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. Some of us are getting the impression that RMT sub fees are more important to SE's bottom line than allowing the entire player base to have an enjoyable experience while adventuring in Eorzea.

[Ashkendor]

off topic rant

There's already so many threads about RMT. Do you really need to bring this up here? -.-

@OP - in every game I've played, only a fraction of the playerbase uses forums. It's pretty typical.