not many people on the forums?

[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.

[LalaRu]

Then, this forum require you had at least purchased the game once and done at least one character in. It filters out people talking of a game they don't play.

[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.

[JimboTCB]

Its mostly due to the limitations that will turn people away early on

The amount you can post on threads daily is limited to your character level. Lets say you're lv 30, you can post less than 10 post per day. Additionally, you can only have 1000 character limit, which can be bypassed but not many know about it.

Compared to Reddite, for example

Also, Rogue/Ninja STILL doesn't count as a real class for "unlocking" the forum. I started as pugilist and switched to Rogue, and it wasn't until I switched to Dragoon and levelled that up that I could finally post on the forums.

And 1k characters per post is a ridiculous limit, this isn't Twitter. I'm constantly writing out long posts and then having to delete half of it or double-post, to the point that I just stop bothering a lot of the time.

[Kuwagami]

Doesn't help this is the na forums and its 1am, smack dab in the middle of America

everyone knows english forums are obviously NA forums xD

Who cares about all the other English speaking countries, or every country not represented (Spanish, Portuguese, Russian...) ?

[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.

[dekal]

When my arcanist was level 38 or so I was only able to do two posts. I remembered waiting until the next day to post again, but it continued saying that I reached the limit. It was already 5pm over the 24 hrs, yet I was not able to post.

[Reinfeld]

Just gonna say it - there's not really much to discuss either (at least compared to other games I've played). Everything that can be said has been said and now it's just beating a dead horse.