That Which He Does Not Play

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

It usually boils down to concern for one's privacy. Whether appropriate or unfounded, not everyone is comfortable with their mains being out there. Sometimes it's just a wanting to keep a low profile thing. Or, y'know, someone outspoken about their opinions might be concerned about possible in-game fallout. Could be any number of reasons.

In all my years of being called a white knight on the forums, I've had 1 person message me in game to tell me I was embarrassing Balmung... Balmung did a good enough job of that on its own. That was like.. 8 years ago lol.

[Absimiliard]

I... wait, Balmung has something resembling shame? That's news to me.

At any rate, common or uncommon, it's a concern some people have. Right off hand I can think of one fellow that got kicked out of his FC because he said in a forum post something to the effect of Stormblood's story was so bad it made him want to fellate an ignition-based force multiplier. I'm quite certain that example is as rare as it is egregious, but the fact it happened at all lends credence to the idea people keeping their mains hidden is, at the very least, not without merit.

[Lauront]

I mean, if the game was truly hemorrhaging players, why then is there plans to add more servers?

When were such plans announced/formulated? My guess is they were based on expectations from high player counts being added at the time what with the WoW 'exodus'. I'm curious what the current status of these plans is, and the reasoning behind it. Incidentally, it is that same exodus that has made it seem like the figures are haemorrhaging. You're not wrong in pointing out that the game is steadily adding over time, but the bigger question to me is whether the actual player numbers are matching up to whatever expectations and ambitions SE has when it's investing into the game. Funnily enough, LB commented directly on the steam figures and their server plans in the past June and April surveys he did, expressing some measure of concern. We still have a high proportion in the most recent survey of characters who have yet to fully clear EW. I am interested to see how well the expansion will do in retaining them over time. It is fair to ask if it is doing as well as it could be in retaining its players.

[Zarkovitch]

Sanctuary might be boring but god damn on the glamour departement it great. They should keep continue having hairstyle and glam gear inside of it. It way better than bozja and the other one.I'm saving gils for once.

[Theodric]

Too far? By clicking on someones profile? That he choose to link to this forum account? You know you can see those minions if you get to the character profile itself? And the clothes are seen in his picture too. So its too far when you check out someones profile that constantly posts negative opinions but its fine that he bascially assumes what Yoshida does in his free time or if some sentence in a interview means that he dislikes IS.

I am bascially just interested what someone has done when they complain so much. And I was quite surprised how he barely have any items. Things that you often get by doing content. Together with him stating that he has not done Island himself I just really doubt if he really plays this game that much. And that matters imo if you post so many topics about how this game sucks, how it would be better and how horrible the devs are.

Yet in the thread I made asking for achievement points to be displayed on the forum you had this to say:

On one hand it would be cool to show them but on the other hand this can open quite the cans of worms too. What if people decide that you are not allowed to have an opinion if you dont have x amount of points even if you can still form an educated opinion about something?

So give them to us but also make sure that any sentence about someone not having a good enough opinion because of those should get punished for that. This way its truly just a nice way to show how much you play the game without holding it over other peoples head.

Which is precisely the sort of tactic you are resorting to here. To say nothing of the fact that you post frequently enough on the lore forum to have seen some of the disturbing comments flung at anyone who dares to like or dislike the 'wrong' characters. As such, it strikes me as disingenuous to take issue with someone deciding to not make their actual main character publicly viewable. Some of us do it, others don't - it's an optional choice.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Yet in the thread I made asking for achievement points to be displayed on the forum you had this to say:



Which is precisely the sort of tactic you are resorting to here. To say nothing of the fact that you post frequently enough on the lore forum to have seen some of the disturbing comments flung at anyone who dares to like or dislike the 'wrong' characters. As such, it strikes me as disingenuous to take issue with someone deciding to not make their actual main character publicly viewable. Some of us do it, others don't - it's an optional choice.

Now we're digging up posts from 4 years ago?

Now who's stalking lol.

[Theodric]

Now we're digging up posts from 4 years ago?

Now who's stalking lol.

It's not really stalking. I have a pretty good memory and I've 'debated' often enough with certain posters to quite easily keep track of how they will actively shift to whatever position is needed to oppose someone they like to argue with in any given thread.

[Kaurhz]

It's not really stalking. I have a pretty good memory and I've 'debated' often enough with certain posters to quite easily keep track of how they will actively shift to whatever position is needed to oppose someone they like to argue with in any given thread.

Yes, yes it is stalking regardless of the spin you try and put up on your own memory, it still requires fair effort for you to scour through their post history and locate the correct post to find in the first place. Most especially on a post made several years ago, and on someone with a post history of 4,590, no less.

[Stormpeaks]

Yes, yes it is stalking regardless of the spin you try and put up on your own memory, it still requires fair effort for you to scour through their post history and locate the correct post to find in the first place. Most especially on a post made several years ago, and on someone with a post history of 4,590, no less.

Just like the person looking at op's profile and saying they dont have this and that so their opinion doesnt matter.

Funny how it goes both ways

[Theodric]

Yes, yes it is stalking regardless of the spin you try and put up on your own memory, it still requires fair effort for you to scour through their post history and locate the correct post to find in the first place. Most especially on a post made several years ago, and on someone with a post history of 4,590, no less.

It doesn't require much effort to find when I remember the comment and it's one of my own threads readily accessible from my profile page...

Though what you're doing now is simply trying to deflect. I was countering Alleo's points by highlighting the hypocrisy of her stance and her stalking of Aveyond's profile. What you and your ilk like to do is see someone doing something, remain silent, then when someone else pushes back suddenly there's an outcry over that self-same pushback. Thankfully more people are becoming wise to these tactics.