Great Community Btw

[Atelier-Bagur]

Only a tiny percentage of players make use of the forums, and most FFXIV players are blissfully unaware of whatever drama-of-the-moment is taking place here. I do wish people wouldn't use this incredibly small vocal slice as a metric for the entire "community".

see I like to believe that but this kinda of culture is already leaking all over twitter and even in certain parts of twitch and YT. I mean just look at how heated and malded Pyromancer was with this.

No joke, during one of my daily roulettes today I saw one member of the group rant about SE banning add-on users instead of bots. To be fair, it was only one comment and nobody else responded to it but its this self-entitled angry culture that while I understand comes from a passion for making this game better.... I just feel somehow got way into one side of the extreme and its tiring to watch.

I think this video here nicely outline the issue that people should be made well aware rather their overreactions over the actual problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4OPGYN6NGw

[Vahlnir]

see I like to believe that but this kinda of culture is already leaking all over twitter and even in certain parts of twitch and YT. I mean just look at how heated and malded Pyromancer was with this.

No joke, during one of my daily roulettes today I saw one member of the group rant about SE banning add-on users instead of bots. To be fair, it was only one comment and nobody else responded to it but its this self-entitled angry culture that while I understand comes from a passion for making this game better.... I just feel somehow got way into one side of the extreme and its tiring to watch.

I think this video here nicely outlies the actual issue that people should be made well aware rather their overreactions over the actual problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4OPGYN6NGw

In fairness, bots and RMT are arguably a bigger problem, and the task force is too small to deal with it all. Sure, both things are present in any MMO, but they do run rampant in FF XIV. And no, the Lodestone updates don't mean jack squat.

[Kes13a]

In fairness, bots and RMT are arguably a bigger problem, and the task force is too small to deal with it all. Sure, both things are present in any MMO, but they do run rampant in FF XIV. And no, the Lodestone updates don't mean jack squat.

I dont often fully agree with you, but you are 100% correct. they need a FAR larger team and to use that shiney, virtually unused ban hammer on gil buyers. going after the bots will never work until they start cutting down the market for their product

[GaiusDrakon]

SE banning add-on users instead of bots

self-entitled angry culture

Zero self-awareness

[Gyson]

see I like to believe that but this kinda of culture is already leaking all over twitter and even in certain parts of twitch and YT. I mean just look at how heated and malded Pyromancer was with this.

It's not surprising that people who participate in one form of social media also participate in other forms of social media. Most players do not watch streams, be it on Twitch or Youtube. The presence of a topic across various platforms is not an indicator that a majority of players are participating in or even aware of it.

You are likely to come across more people who are aware of who Pyromancer is when discussing it on social media. If you attempt to have the same discussion in-game, you're probably going to run into more individuals who respond with something akin to "who did what?". They just don't care.. these topics are not on most people's radar. The first page of this forum looks like the land of Eorzea is on fire because this is an echo chamber, not because it actually is.