Question regarding blogs up on the Lodestone

[Riardon]

NA and EU players use Tumblr a lot. You can find lots of blogs about FFXIV there. Different cultures different ways of expressing.

[Alahra]

All the coolest people have FFXIV Wordpress blogs.

But no, it's actually a got a lot to do with the way the Lodestone filters blog posts as others have mentioned. For whatever reason it doesn't default to the language for your account. There actually is a decently-sized community that blogs on the English side of things. I made sure to filter them once (but for some reason it defaulted back the next time I logged in) and was actually pretty surprised at how much was actually going on for us.

[KaitlanKela]

The JP players are posting blogs nigh constantly. I think a good chunk of the playerbase actually uses the blogs.

A smaller fraction of NA players use theirs, but the ones that do are active about it. But because there's less of us the JP posts flood the community wall and ours get pushed down (it's based on post date/time, older ones fall off), so it looks like we don't have anything.

But we do.

And you can also get banned from the lodestone blogs/comments system. It's pretty easy to do as well, lol.

[Teryaani]

And you can also get banned from the lodestone blogs/comments system. It's pretty easy to do as well, lol.

Oh, it happens. But I've eaten a forum ban but never gotten a lodestone ban. And I'm me in both places!

[Ilitsa]

I tried to back during 2.0/2.1 but just felt that no one really gave a crap about my experiences ingame or what I've been up to/felt about X content or Y character etc, so I just kinda stopped, now I just annoy my fiance with my incessant talking about this or that or the other until she tells me "I DONT CARE!!" =P (And then I talk a little more about it, just to spite, cuz that's what a good spouse does, right?)

[AskaRay]

Personally how I view blogs as a whole is "I don't care"... however I think they are important which is why I try so hard to keep one or two. They are a good snapshot of life- in this case, a popular video game played by thousands. Each person's experience is different and in the future that'll be good to read about.

So, I think more people should keep blogs, not for other people but for themselves (and the future).

[KaitlanKela]

For what it's worth, I don't find that people don't care. Honestly, I don't get a lot of comments but I do get views: I get about 100 views an entry within a week or so. I have a few people following me. If you have something that interests people, they'll read it. Mine's fanfic, but I know people get lots of comments on the game play critique or personal journaling type stuff too.

[Twilite]

Change your filter to english.you see tons of jp blogs because of the default setting.

Jp are people too and like to talk.

And i used to blog til i realized the lodestone is 2 things:

1. Popularity contest.
2. Full of losers looking for girlfriend instead of this thing called "friend".

[Andrea]

I think you dialed it up a bit much.

I wouldn't worry about him, he does it in every thread he posts in.

[Teryaani]

It's just a perspective question. I give my opinion and you disagreed with it. For me you are the only troll here.

Let's complete the trifecta here, what are you thoughts on console vs PC?

If you're going to go overboard, you may as well go really overboard.