Please stop using Discord during raids

[Atelier-Bagur]

Easy solution is to stop malding and step away from the forums if this thread bothers you :P

Too late, as you can see on my character, the mald is complete lol

[Padudu]

Too late, as you can see on my character, the mald is complete lol

Listen, mald is never good for anyone. Remember to keep breathing when exerting yourself and drink a smoothie every once in a while. I promise you, you will feel healthier than a yoga mom on her fifth Herbalife shake after a 5k mile charity run.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

Can this stupid thread just die now? Im actually legit malding over here over people acting like chickens with their heads cut off.

If you can point out in the TOS that we’re incorrect in telling you to stop cheating I swear - we’ll stop.

[Darksummoner]

I really really LOVE ffxiv, but I am truly convinced that half the people in this thread are on some kind of Karen drugs like all this moaning and groaning for using keyboards and cell phones. Like I just can't.

[Kanzer]

I really really LOVE ffxiv, but I am truly convinced that half the people in this thread are on some kind of Karen drugs like all this moaning and groaning for using keyboards and cell phones. Like I just can't.

It amazes me how people just don't get the point of this post lol. It's not about using keyboards, or cellphones, it's about SE being cowards and side stepping what's allowed and what isn't. OP is correct in that if we're to take the TOS at face value, then Discord is not allowed. SE needs to step up and state what is allowed, and what isn't, otherwise this will never go away. And if their intent is really to stamp out everything, then they got a lot of work to do themselves to make the game more accessible and less of a headache in a lot of ways.

[Darksummoner]

It amazes me how people just don't get the point of this post lol. It's not about using keyboards, or cellphones, it's about SE being cowards and side stepping what's allowed and what isn't. OP is correct in that if we're to take the TOS at face value, then Discord is not allowed. SE needs to step up and state what is allowed, and what isn't, otherwise this will never go away. And if their intent is really to stamp out everything, then they got a lot of work to do themselves to make the game more accessible and less of a headache in a lot of ways.

You are a little late with your reply friend. You should have said this BS longgggggggggggggg ago rather then now. Cause half the community here is not getting it. The whole going on that keyboards and cell phones and mouses are now third party should get all the players banned is where I draw the line in this outrageous thread. Sorry but I am done with this thread. Hell I am done with the forums for this week. I think I have had my fill Karens for the week. Later Guys.

[xxmiamorecadenza]

It amazes me how people just don't get the point of this post lol. It's not about using keyboards, or cellphones, it's about SE being cowards and side stepping what's allowed and what isn't. OP is correct in that if we're to take the TOS at face value, then Discord is not allowed. SE needs to step up and state what is allowed, and what isn't, otherwise this will never go away. And if their intent is really to stamp out everything, then they got a lot of work to do themselves to make the game more accessible and less of a headache in a lot of ways.

The fact that anyone is actually taking the 'anti-Discord' posts here super seriously is astonishing. I guess I need to add /s at the end of my posts or something. :V

[Myrany]

The fact that anyone is actually taking the 'anti-Discord' posts here super seriously is astonishing. I guess I need to add /s at the end of my posts or something. :V

Do I take these posts seriously? No not even close.

Do I wish Discord was banned? I wish Discord didn't exist. There is nothing I hate more than to be happily playing a game and my friend who is half the world away say to me "Can we go to Discord" because he hates shifting screens and typing. I really cannot stand having someone talking in my ear while I am playing a game, any game, to the point I will shut down the game before booting up Discord. He is my friend. He won't bend so I have to. It is part of being a friend. That does not mean I like it.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Do I take these posts seriously? No not even close.

Do I wish Discord was banned? I wish Discord didn't exist. There is nothing I hate more than to be happily playing a game and my friend who is half the world away say to me "Can we go to Discord" because he hates shifting screens and typing. I really cannot stand having someone talking in my ear while I am playing a game, any game, to the point I will shut down the game before booting up Discord. He is my friend. He won't bend so I have to. It is part of being a friend. That does not mean I like it.

that evil, terrible, fiendish discord!

[UkcsAlias]

Do I take these posts seriously? No not even close.

Do I wish Discord was banned? I wish Discord didn't exist. There is nothing I hate more than to be happily playing a game and my friend who is half the world away say to me "Can we go to Discord" because he hates shifting screens and typing. I really cannot stand having someone talking in my ear while I am playing a game, any game, to the point I will shut down the game before booting up Discord. He is my friend. He won't bend so I have to. It is part of being a friend. That does not mean I like it.

Before discord, people would just go to steam, facebook, teamspeak, msn, etc. Some platforms are simply popular for chatting, and therefor people prefer going there. Discord on that has a reputation that is game related, and splits each game in that quite well. So even on that im not surprised either.

My biggest issue with discord is that it hogs resources and is highly unreliable for gaming in which you are forced to communicate with your team quickly. Its voice chat has massive delays, audio quality issues (too often i hear people going robot), and common enough even has downtime issues in which voice doesnt work at all (and this is typicaly during times in which people game). At some point my group already decided to go back to teamspeak, which on that did have a few times that it went down, but unlike discord this was only for like 15 minutes instead of 2 hours (and in 2 years only twice where discord was monthly). And yes, you can pay, but if the f2p chat has such severe issues with stability, im not going to risk paying for that.

Discord is good for normal chat however because of its interface. But outside of that, its not good. Even though i still prefer steam on that, but thats because most of my chat is not group based. Steam's group chat is still significantly worse than discord.

For casual PvE gaming however, even if voice chat is included, it does a decent enough job as in that case delays dont matter much. For PvP or difficult Coop however, i would suggest not using discord.

Hating discord because people abuse that, thats not a valid excuse. Hate the people for that. Otherwise you could just hate steam because people are also sending the same trash through steam. Discord started out as a good platform, but feature bloat simply made the things that originaly made it good, function a lot less effective. And even with those issues, its still the best platform around. Simply because its not tied to any game developer itself. The closest to this usefullness would be reddit, except reddit lacks private groups in it, and has a horrible moderation system (echo chamber effect). But reddit on that is better in public availability.

But in the end, use the tools for what they are ment, and on that, for general chat in gaming (especialy acros the globe), discord does its job well.