not many people on the forums?

[Kosmos992k]

Everyone says this game is really popular but to me it seems like the traffic on the forums are very slow and almost dead?

Which is why it's universally true to say that forums are a god awful way of judging the activity for *anything*.

The posting restrictions prevent anyone from flooding the forum with a bazillion one line replies, and the character limitation on a new post or reply (which can be overcome by editing) also tends to keep things reasonable.

If you read the forums, you'll see the traffic, and if you post, you'll soon encounter the posting restrictions.

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?"
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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.

Do you honestly believe that a) the community managers are unaware of the issues with RMT? b) Yoshi and the Dev team are oblivious to the issues of RMT?

Of course they are aware, and there is a task force set up to handle RMT, it's simply not handling it fast enough for you, me or anyone else. That's due to RMT efforts quickly ramping up and overwhelming the capacity of the task force to properly investigate and act on reports (such as they are). It's also due to an increasingly large number of utterly ignorant and inconsiderate players particularly on NA/EU servers who don't give a damn about anyone else and purchase gil from these RMT slimeballs. Without a market there is no RMT, without a growing market, there is less RMT ramp up.

I love how people always blame SE when the simple fact is if it were not worth their while to advertize, RMT would not advertize. more advertizing means a larger market which means more players are buying gil. It's those fools who need to receive the loving attention of a big fat banhammer every bit as much as the scum that sell gil in the first place.

[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.

[Jican]

Do you know why the forums are dead? As soon as you express your opinion in any negative fashion, you'll be slapped with a 10 day ban with no way to talk to a person in any reasonable fashion to litigate your cause. The forums are here, I thought, so that we as players can discuss the good and the bad side of the game and it's process, to include the forum. However, once an issue comes to light in the forums, there is absolutely no way to get a hold of anyone from the forums through any channel in the Square Enix business except through the same forums you were banned for.

Let's talk about excessive enforcement now. The limit on a posts per day, the limit on words per post, and now the excessive limit on time banned for a first time offender and the completely objective judements of what they feel the rules mean when any candid comment rubs them the wrong way. On top of that, there's no way to talk to anyone about your post and when the ban hammer comes down, you are completely locked out entirely from the forums. To top it off, the same comments I made were made a hundred times over and I actively see those that should have been "banned" for making the same comments active and carefree.

I for one will not frequent the forums again, and this just chalks up another strike for Square Enix. The steady decline of caring about the player base, the elitist attitude from the corporation as a whole, and the lack of quality games (in my opinion of course) is giving me cause to no longer support any Final Fantasy's. As a gamer and an avid supporter of Final Fantasy for 20+ years, it's truly a shame that it's fallen so far.

[Skivvy]

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.

A work-around for this is to write out your entire message, and then copy it, delete it, replace with xxxxxxxxxxxx (or something that is 10 characters) and then submit. Edit your post right away and paste in your original reply.

It's a bit lame we even have to do that, but it will work.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

People talk negative things about this game all the time. It's only the people who can't critique without resorting to hyperbole or insults that get banned.

[dughug]

Everyone says this game is really popular but to me it seems like the traffic on the forums are very slow and almost dead?

Agreed. Forums could be utilized more.

[Havenae]

Everyone says this game is really popular but to me it seems like the traffic on the forums are very slow and almost dead?

Forum dwellers are ALWAYS a very small percentage of the actual population.

[Kosmos992k]

People talk negative things about this game all the time. It's only the people who can't critique without resorting to hyperbole or insults that get banned.

It' not the hyperbole per se it's how they handle the hyperbole, and how insulting they are...and how many times people report the post to complain...lol.

Seriously though, earning a forum ban is in most ways quitedifficult, although there are specific areas of discussion that have a more 'zero tolerance' approach.

[Narbzilla]

Everyone gets banned for having an opinion that doesn't hold your hand and tell you you're special before going to bed.

[Hali]

The SJWs and White Knights got anyone with any real criticism banned months ago.

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