Quote Originally Posted by Jojoya View Post
If you are bothered by the ToS, ask yourself why. What do you habitually do that you're afraid might get you in trouble? Is there a good reason for you to be doing that something or is it a case of "because I want to and I should be able to do what I want"? Any mature adult knows that we don't get to just do what we want, that there are still standards of interaction society expects us to follow.
And we also know that we need to accept the consequences for when we don't follow those standards, whether intentional or accidental.

Also, just because something gets reported doesn't mean the GMs will see it as a situation that needs action. I've been told by other players on a few occasions that they were going to report me for some presumed infraction and yet I've never had contact with a GM except in response to tickets I've opened myself.
I expect people see the horror stories and become afraid, especially for accounts that they've put a lot of time into and would be hard or impossible to redo from scratch (like FFXIV, or a Discord account with lots of servers and friends made, etc.).

The trouble is that the horror stories are outliers, but small risks of large losses are the most difficult to handle psychologically (and policy wise, even, to be quite blunt - especially when populations are large enough that any given ghastly corner case is likely to happen to someone statistically speaking), and in the case of online accounts, for various reasons the information that allows us to confirm just how much of an outlier is generally not available (while trolls will use the situation to try and spin doctor their legitimate ban into "I was a corner case, boohoo" threads).

Offensive language is probably the worst one because I've actually heard of friends who've gotten suspended almost immediately after the (justified or not) words were uttered, which runs very counter to how FFXIV is normally understood to work (i.e., reports are assumed to all be human reviewed), and suggests that there is a robot rubberstamp for this particular case - quite possibly matching the lovely profanity filter limitations (where even, say, "the thing is" will come out as "the thin? ??" in game chat ... so false positives are a very real possibility, but since they won't tell you what you did "to protect the reporter" ...)


Quote Originally Posted by SannaR View Post
The only report template that takes a long time to fill out is the bug report. Did someone report you for spamming an emote? Which I mean if you want to do that then uncheck the box that shoves it into the chat log. Unless you have voice 5 for your cat girl and you're using one that makes sound. Then I'd understand that. Same with the lalafells that have that one annoying voice and spam their joy emote every millisecond. I find the others fairly easy to fill out.
TBH a real issue on this one is probably sprouts: all those old Leves where you have to /beckon, for instance? Get it wrong a few times in a row because you don't know how to use emotes yet or don't realize you have to target the friendly NPC first? Your communications might be limited (free trial? Not in Novice Network yet? Oh, apparently free trials are understood to get shorter shrift when it comes to getting reported, too) so you can't or don't know how to ask for help?

Maybe emotes into the chat log should just be filtered out altogether, or it should be changed to a "see emotes in YOUR chat log" instead of "SEND emotes to people's chat logs" option, and the option to report for it removed at the same time?