FFXIV Rules: Far too rigid?

[MintnHoney]

Speaking as someone who's never had any issues, the rules are "rigid" in that they're generally non-negotiable, but it's the enforcement and handling where things become somewhat more relaxed, bordering being just... lax in general.

[Canadane]

The rules haven't really changed much.
They've only been clarified over the years.

And now that the developers are disappointed in the players not heeding said rules, they're enforcing them a bit more swiftly.
It's not like they haven't enforced rules before. GMs taking action is nothing new. People are supposedly shook and shocked but this isn't abnormal.
The games just a lot larger than it was 3 or 4 years ago, and not to mention The Great WoW Migration who brings in players with different expectations of what's allowed. So there's a lot more people overall breaking rules, and as such a lot more people getting punished.

[IdowhatIwant]

A ban is, essentially, muting an individual player. The programming effort necessary to mute an individual, while allowing them to play the game, might possibly be a bit more of a challenge than the poster thinks.

Harassment is harassment, whether in the heat of the moment or otherwise. Just because someone gets away with it in other games does not mean the devs of this one need to allow such behavior.

A player can always go play a First Person Shooter or other PVP-oriented game where the behavior is tolerated in order to get their daily 'fix' for that sort of thing.

It's in the game already. It's called black list.

[MiaShino]

It's in the game already. It's called black list.

There exist certain tools.. forbidden tools some might consider unnatural. They can not only mute specific players (no emote sound not just chat mute) but hide their entire character model kinda like Black Mirror. Square could easily implement such features provided their code base is workable.

This would enable them to create punishment tiers in same way a website admin might.
First offense is no chatting for you. Second offense is banned from duty finder. Etc.

[Toukichiful]

It is what it is.

[DPZ2]

It's in the game already. It's called black list.

Black listing is not used by the game to prevent players from interacting with anything, it's a means to mute a player on a personal basis. It cannot be used for as a warning for a particular player. Black lists exist for other players, not the one being 'punished'.

[Batbrat]

Do you see how annoying I am here????? And I've never once had an issue. Never once. So no, their rules are anything but rigid. lol

[Hysorn]

Eh, a bit, way more than any MMO in the west, for sure. I think it leads to some weird behavior, as in, we all had to deal with that person that is super passive-aggressive and ends every sentence with "xD" or "" despite you knowing full well they just want to let out their anger at that point(aka every other Party Finder group). As for modding.. My stance is that it would be fine if they would take their time to implement some of the QoL stuff some mods add. Like damn, Yoshi-P wasn't even aware how much high ping impacts the animation lock in this game after 9 years since ARR. Like damn, I am pretty sure the only data Squenix collects on ping issues comes from Japan, but lo and behold, XIVAlexander fix that for anyone living outside of the US/Europe. I mean, if you aren't going to fix the game, not going to add new servers on SA, at least greenlight the damn thing.

[SturmChurro]

I had no issues for a very long time. Then I got a warning out of nowhere, and, to this day, I still don't have any idea what I supposedly did.