Account warning with almost no information.

[Imora]

They don't tell you so you can't try to get around it next time.

[Sotaris]

You should got an email stating which part of the TOS you infringed.

Edit: Looks like you got a warning for harassments. Which is very vague cause you could be jokingly saying f** and get reported if someone is easily offended

[Sotaris]

I don't think your in-game account can be warned for things you say on the forum, can it? I thought at most they just send you to baby jail on the forums.

They say it can but I haven't heard anyone get that harsh punishment other than banned on the forum.
My ex was banned here but can still play the game.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Every time one of these threads comes up, I'm reminded that forum posters have a much higher proportion of warnings/bans than the full player base.

[LianaThorne]

Every time one of these threads comes up, I'm reminded that forum posters have a much higher proportion of warnings/bans than the full player base.

Eh usually if you get smacked on here it's for a good reason. In game you can use three emotes in a row in Limsa and get a warning for disrupting someone's gameplay.

[Krotoan]

Without any context[/B], you've called someone an "asshat" here, said someone's parents failed, and often seem to be somewhat combative with other posters (there are more things I could point at, but you can read your own posts and see what you think); that's without even going past the first few lines of the posts, and in just August alone. Again, however, I'll stress that's all without the context of why you wrote those words, so I'm personally not saying whether or not you're right or wrong in the spirit of the discussions you were having, nor whether I agree with you for doing so.

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Came here to note that while OP is generally just about the game... they are definitely not without ...moments.

Good reply.

We'd all like to think we do nothing wrong, but if you're getting warnings maybe stop that extra second before you say anything in game.

Been playing for the entire run of the game. No warnings. Ever. I talk all the time to randoms but am careful in "mixed" company to not say anything I wouldn't tell a complete stranger face to face. Seems to be working.

[LittleArrow]

I just wanted to add to this. What the majority of players here have said is true; we all stopped talking in game b/c the first big general / vague harassment policy change back at the end of stormblood / beginning of shadowbringers. This caused us all to realize we could be reported for literally giving advice to a new player.

Btw, we warned in many forum posts this would kill community within the game, and it did. Of course, this was before the big wave of taverns / Rp venues. This was known... as the big quiet - I'm kidding, I'm just calling it that LOL. I've played since 2nd beta 1.0, and this game was never this quiet. We were very chatty like other MMO's, we just weren't as rude / abrassive. Many of us tried to fight back on the forums but were essentially told we don't know what we're talking about and nothing would change - LOL. Yep, everyone stopped helping / talking / interacting.

The second big policy change that occurred was when the streamers were playing. This was actually an improvement to the first one - SE changed the punishments to actually have a cooldown, before they were permanent. SE also said they would be more specific with which policy you broke - before, I could be wrong about this, they wouldn't even tell you which rule you broke let alone what you actually said.

I know it's easy to just blame SE, and rightfully we should ask for more lenient punishment considering some GM's can escalate a single first time offense to level 2 / 3 and bypass the warning all together, giving you an outright ban on a first offense if they deem it too intense (again, I don't have personal experience with this, but I've read posts of banned accounts recounting their side saying this happened to them /grainofsalt). However, the community at large doesn't know how absolutely brutal the punishment system is in this game and rarely come to the forums to find out, so there isn't enough of an outcry.

The advice I can give you is, if you have friends - only speak to them through discord, even free company chat is dangerous b/c you never know when a member starts to feel a certain way about you and decide to try to ruin your entire game. If you don't have friends, like me XD, it's just a pretty quiet game. It's still very enjoyable, but I suggest a lot of youtube in the background / family to speak with outside of the game <3

[Padudu]

They don't tell you so you can't try to get around it next time.

People do it all the time anyways i.e that one deranged roe player, stalkers, botters, ect.. If they want to get around something, they will lol. Sometimes people are just dumb and one slip up causes a warning. If you play this game a lot - and I mean a lot - and between chatting in Limsa, roulettes, new content - if you RP, venues, ect.. - you will probably at least be engaging with people a moderate amount. If you get slapped with a warning, I'd bet most players will not know what the heck for unless they were being egregious to begin with. You can get slapped with a warning for saying the F word in chat to telling someone how to play, to of course the more bad stuff (griefing/harassment/ect) they definitely need to be clearer with the reports. With the bar for getting a warning being as low as saying 'feck' in public chat, there's not much to get around anyways. You will either continue doing it or you won't.

[Darthgummibear]

^This entire post is the best one in this thread, with great advice.

I find the number of people writing "Just don't talk in-game" to be interesting, because I talk all the time in this game, other MMOs, and other online games in general, and I have never, after decades of gaming, received a "warning" or anything of the sort from any company. I feel like as long as one speaks or writes with kindness and positivity (the main elements of being a likeable person, really), then no reasonable person would find fault. But some people online throw out disparaging remarks, casual rudeness, and profanity-laced diatribes about whatever they have issue with that very second, to the extent that these people cannot even remember and recognize what they might have said or done that offended someone else.

Just treat others as you wish to be treated, which includes speaking to others the way you wish to be spoken to, and there will be no reason why you cannot chat with other people in the game. Then again, there is that other traditional saying: if you have nothing kind to say, keep it to yourself.

This, again, is running under the assumption that I was being hostile to someone in the game which is not the case. Like I mentioned earlier, I go out of my way to be nice and supportive to people. I give people compliments, I do my best to be sociable. I even danced for a bunch of lalafels in Limsa a couple days ago. I'm really one of the nicest people you'll meet. The assumption a lot of people on these forums seem to have that I deserved this for being a bad person is kind of infuriating. I've been gaming online since the 90's and never once have I had to deal with something like this.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Just be a halfway decent human in game, and you won't get warned/banned/etc.

I know that it feels like that's asking a lot, but I promise you that it really isn't. We can all do it—I believe in us.