Why Are the FFXIV Forums So Bad?

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They go with the minimal moderation. it seems to work with japanese, french and german forum, but not on the english ones. Some well known trolls are free to roam, and even when they eventually get banned, they have a new alt account in the hour (that everyone knows it's them anyway).

Some people say it's because of negative comment, but I disagree with that. Most people that complains about the game make pretty good points, but a lot of people on both side cannot not take any criticism personally and every thread derails into an ad-hominem fight. It's not only because of the trolls. They just have to start some fire and disappear, and some "normal" users will keep it going. At this point it's ridiculous. A moderation team is needed for the english forums, because people can't behave themselves.

Then there are the people that can't differentiate criticism and hating the game... When you point that out, they will say "some do, but most don't" based on nothing. Yeah, telling people they hate the game when they do make a criticism is good way to create some nice ambiance. We don't even need the trolls to start those fire.

It's been mentioned before that the devs meteic for forum feedback is through the upvote system. Sadly for these forums the only times I ever see upvotes get high is when someone got school yard burned from petty insults and passive aggressive hostility.

This also. last time I created a thread about needing more moderation, it litterally had 2 upvotes. Nothing is gonna change if people are not even able to understand how SE collect feedback when they said how they use the forum to collect feedback. Weirdly the "Endsinger needing some sync" has been heard. It's one of the few thread over the last few month that used the like system like they said they use it, and we needed the help of reddit to do that. Doing twelves thread about the same subject don't help, supporting the existing thread does.