https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...4efa39f992435a

Nice to see him encouraging people to be respectful and to keep trying even in a situation that looks hard to come back from. Kind of surreal to see it addressed now when it was happening many years before Crystalline Conflict but I guess the community is just so much bigger now, far more people have been affected in some way.

Some people don't think spam of quick chat and icons in a negative way is harassment, but it can really wear you down if it happens constantly. Marking your own ally with the ignore mark is particularly egregious. Here's my story.... Back in Feast, somebody in particular used to do that to me every match and they replaced it instantly with a macro whenever I removed it, so I was forced to wear the mark of a garbage person. It's a big distracting symbol over your head that follows you and others can see.

I was really trying to improve, but across many hours and days they constantly told me I am bad. Outside of the matches, they told me to stop being s***, that coordinating with me was like playing with a dishrag, and "everyone knows" that I suck since they spread the targeted negativity across external chat communities too.

Sometimes they would mark me less than 5 seconds into the start of the match "because I was sitting on full MP" as a DRK. I was going to shield somebody when I saw who the enemy are focusing but my reaction times aren't lightning. I said people should be allowed to play even if they're not top-tier; they just replied nobody is stopping you playing (but they won't stop harassing either.)

To attempt to climb the ladder, I had to deal with that stuff every step. It made me extra stressed outside of the game and I ended up yelling at my Dad after a particularly bad day, which he doesn't deserve. It wasn't long before I found out Dad had cancer and he died swiftly, so I still feel guilty about that day. You always have to remember you're dealing with real people online and you don't know their situation. Yes people reported that pvper by the way. Looks like they're still around now regardless with lv90 jobs.

The good thing about CC is that it's popular enough you probably won't be teamed with the same person repeatedly, except maybe at higher ranks and off-peak hours. I haven't been harassed there yet but I've seen it happen to other people using the old methods Yoshida detailed, even in the casual matches that I mainly stick to. This Lodestone post is a reminder that yes, it should not be tolerated.