Dev Harassment is concerning

[Claviusnex]

Wander onto Twitter or certain subreddits, and you won't have to look far to find one or two. At least, depending on what you define as "death threats". "I wish someone would set the developers on fire so I could stand there and watch them burn to death and not pour water on them" is not an actual threat, per se, but wishing death upon the devs -- even if obviously hyperbole -- still is unsettling and almost certainly doesn't make any dev team member who stumbles across it feel particularly good about community interaction.

Thankfully, the FFXIV community seems somewhat less prone to that extreme of reactions to things they're unhappy about -- and I've seen none of them on this particular forum! -- but "less wishes of death upon the developers than most games will get" doesn't mean "no such posts at all".

The same is true with folks saying that this was a scam and the developers should be thrown in jail for fraud; I don't think any of them are actually serious, but it still taints the discourse and is likely not going to make anyone on the dev team inclined to read a thread containing stuff like that, whether it's only angry hyperbole or not.

Then it seems to me people like the OP should be bringing the subject up on the social media where the transgressions are occurring not here on the forums where I have yet to see the type of vitriol you get on the open web.

[Packetdancer]

Then it seems to me people like the OP should be bringing the subject up on the social media where the transgressions are occurring not here on the forums where I have yet to see the type of vitriol you get on the open web.

On that, I do agree.