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[Nedkel]

I read somewhere that streamer has been provoked by that guy, who was the first person who started all the fuss harassing tanks in team for poor performance and he done that in agressive manner.

Cant tell 100% because i have not seen the video.

[Melichoir]

Follow the money. Bottom line is SE cares about subscription and revenue, as any company should. Arthars suspension was inconsistent on SE's part but was probably done to protect FF14's image of being welcoming to casual players. Casual players pay the majority of the bill. The same thing with Parsers- if SE started banning everyone who used parsers, so many people would stop playing. The "use it but don't harrass people with it" rule was to keep parsing players paying the sub, and to keep casual players playing as well who might be turned off if people give them a hard time about their dps numbers. So of course SE hasn't been consistent in enforcing their ToS/rules, but from a revenue perspective, SE is always consistent in doing what they can to protect their brand. I'm not saying it's wrong or right, just how it is.

I wont contest this point broadly. Yeah, theyll do what they have to to be profitable, so if that means bending rules or enforcing a bit oddly - fine. I get that. But this is a particular situation that even despite that, this was a streamer starting problems by using teh parser and his stream to publically shame another player. I personally dont find that acceptable and think SE was in the right to punish. It's the principle of the matter that Im concerned with - namely using your platform and followers to make life hard on another player and trying to be clever by not doing in game directly to avoid punishment. If it wasnt name dropping or direct info, Id say SE was in the wrong. But thats not what happened here.

I read somewhere that streamer has been provoked by that guy, who was the first person who started all the fuss harassing tanks in team for poor performance and he done that in agressive manner.

Cant tell 100% because i have not seen the video.

Theyre not a public figure, so even if the guy was being an ass, using your platform to ruin their time in game isnt acceptable. Or are we gonna start arguing that its all ok cause he was being a dick. Cause I can see that quickly resulting in a situation where you better not piss off or slight any streamer or they have carte blanche to ruin you with their follower base. I can imagine that being loads of fun.