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[caffe_macchiato]

I've just gotten bored with all of the low-effort trolls. So much dull spam clogging up the front pages of the forum, or necro bumping old threads.

Then maybe they should put content into this game.

Square Enix has a lack of respect for this game. It should be treated as a flagship title given that it’s the most profitable game in their most popular franchise. Yet we’re treated as some sort of backwater. The 6.x cycle has been a joke compared to what other “flagship” titles (Genshin, WoW, etc) have received. And that lack of respect also goes into how third party plugins are addressed (i.e. not at all). People have turned FFXIV into an open-market ERP sim. The most popular streamers are owners of sex clubs with heavily modded characters. And there’s likely a hundred bots underneath Limsa on every server doing RMT so the market can be propped up in lieu of actual players. Because, honestly, who even gets excited for this game anymore?

Every Gaius and TitanMen thread on this forum is a symbol of decay, and it’s funny how so many people can’t even see it yet. What else would it take? The servers cutting off? Square Enix isn’t gonna clean this place up just like they won’t clean up the bots or the prostitution. It’s a shitty company and they need to be called out at every opportunity until their lackeys resign in disgust.

[Hurlstone]

The mass reporting does seem to work within 24 hours. The fact we've not seen certain people yet today might mean a ban has finally happened.

If thats the case we just need to do it to the alts too. No more participating...just a report and move on in silence. I know I keep saying it and then don't but now that action does seem to be working in one degree or another...that is exactly what I'm doing.

The ban just might only be a 10 day ban so be ready for certain people to come back. But if it was a real ban then this is good news.

If they where band it does not look like it was even 10 hours as its seems thye are already back elsewhere on the forum being their... charming... self again (Seemingly going down a "I am reflection of you/we live in a society" route which you know... good luck with that)

[TheMightyMollusk]

Then maybe they should put content into this game.

Square Enix has a lack of respect for this game. It should be treated as a flagship title given that it’s the most profitable game in their most popular franchise. Yet we’re treated as some sort of backwater. The 6.x cycle has been a joke compared to what other “flagship” titles (Genshin, WoW, etc) have received. And that lack of respect also goes into how third party plugins are addressed (i.e. not at all). People have turned FFXIV into an open-market ERP sim. The most popular streamers are owners of sex clubs with heavily modded characters. And there’s likely a hundred bots underneath Limsa on every server doing RMT so the market can be propped up in lieu of actual players. Because, honestly, who even gets excited for this game anymore?

Every Gaius and TitanMen thread on this forum is a symbol of decay, and it’s funny how so many people can’t even see it yet. What else would it take? The servers cutting off? Square Enix isn’t gonna clean this place up just like they won’t clean up the bots or the prostitution. It’s a shitty company and they need to be called out at every opportunity until their lackeys resign in disgust.

If you really think the state of the game has any actual effect on the trolls, I've got a bridge in Coerthas for sale.

[CStrife912]

Then maybe they should put content into this game.

Square Enix has a lack of respect for this game...

I mean there are many answers to your statement....this isn't defending but just from observation. But the content pool has already been shown to be on par with any other expansion cycle. The only difference we shifted an exploration zone for a deep dungeon this time. This then goes into the wildly discussed aspect of longevity...the content types have been added they just haven't got long term longevity. If they did you wouldn't need to be making that statement. We have been far from treated like backwater....they have tackled multiple player types...however I will concede some has gone more to the new player experience this expansion but after their giant influx I think they wanted to tidy up and improve the new player experience. The game is 10 years old....you can't keep building the Jenga tower by taking blocks from the bottom...Eventually you'll need to be putting blocks back there to form the stable structure.

WoW has a vastly bigger team and budget then FF14....but oh they said spare no expense etc etc...they are...graphics update....new worlds and data centers.... we don't know whats to come in 7.0 either because from when that statement was made a lot of this content was already planned out so 7.0 onwards is where you could really question that statement or the game direction in general. Genshin....the company who owns them just put out that Genshin and Honkai made them more profit then sonys entire game division in their year reports. Just let that sit with you for a second....they have the money to invest into making Genshin what it is...but also it is what it is because of the gacha systems appealing to a very wanting demographic.

I can't comment on RMT/Botting or ERP because I don't partake or see much of it really I know its there and am not oblivious to it but it does need addressing in some capacity.

[Godzillaxpowerrangers]

It has gotten so sad around here with the army of alts that I barely visit as much as I use too.

[SannaR]

It's sad when they don't even ban a person who literally asked them to ban them. Took them at least a week of practically everyone in the lore section reporting a person's posts that was straight up harassment and vile language. I don't enjoy that the general section is the worst section and outside the new player help section probably the main one a new person dips their toes in. Unless they have a very specific interest or complaint. As I don't see as much of the crap you see here. Heck there are days and weeks where I just stay away from this section due to reading some of the thread titles or who's made them. I'm surprised that one thread took so long to be acted on. I guess people just need to report their antics more.

[Solaires]

I mean I would feel that support of moderators if they noticed the FYI post 2 posts down that is intended to troll rile up the community and try to make a a movement of discrimination to attack players. It's been up for a while now. This actually shows how bad moderation really is.

[Iscah]

If you really think the state of the game has any actual effect on the trolls, I've got a bridge in Coerthas for sale.

You say that like you haven't worked out whose side they're on.

[Zebraoracle]

So what discord server do you have that I see get mentioned? Is it a small tight-knit community or something for the game?

Also just check where 3 particular people have necro'd threads....like poor guy is trying to make a point of relevancy.

Dude, the discord is the most passive thing. Renalt even has it pretty open invite, like people are free to come see for themselves that the stupid bait posts are just full of crap, if the fact that a known troll was posting them wasn't a big enough hint. Yeah we sometimes talk about the forums, but most of the crap we talk about is not even remotely related, and not once has a call to arms to mass report someone we "don't like" happened lmao. It's so silly.

[VelKallor]

With the continuing number of necro posts and garbage posts from ONE person alone, Id have hoped the mods would finally get a broom.

Its getting beyond a sick joke.

you know this, I know this, everyone else knows this.. but.. we are all called "paypigs" because we subscribe.

That alone should have merited a permanent ban.