[Feedback] Data Center Travel Changes

[VoidsentStatus]

you came in here punching down on everyone

So despite you typing paragraphs on paragraphs about insults and woo woo woo, you still recognize I'm more experienced than these people if I'm punching down. You realize half these comments wouldn't exist if these randoms humbled themselves and realized maybe they don't know everything and get into the facts of the lodestone messages, behaviors of developers on other games, and the community in general instead of getting into a "who are you/you're just a meanie" argument that they were bound to lose. May I remind you, that me having alts, that me having houses, had nothing to do with data center travel and got brought up by other parties for insults. And I can tell they don't lead a community because they'd rather toss insults and start a hate campaign with 4k+ followers (which no leader would do ever and is the reason they have no support in doing so because rp community rule #1 - don't harass people), instead of coming to me and asking if I'd donate my properties to a community, if I'd help them rebuild. They're not looking to go forward, we're just crying and being petty at this point. Probably because they fell into one of the categories I mentioned, and I'm sorry if that was a tough pill for them to swallow and they want to backlash. I'm not fixing to sit here and bring 10-20+ people into the thread to argue about good and bad venues and who should and shouldn't exist, when their community is just going to die and others are going to live, and they will see the community choose that on their own. 100%, communities are being crippled, but more importantly, is that you are seeing tests of loyalty and experience. Communities that are not important enough to people, that are not supported enough, that have inexperienced management will fall.

And they proved my exact point earlier, anytime someone with resources, no matter what they use it for, will always be harassed and assumed for malicious intent regardless of how they use it. A'leycat 2.0 just saw a prime reason why people don't support the community. People don't have gil because they burn bridges with people that can help them get it. People don't have housing and resources to help their community because they burn bridges with people that can help them get it. The community has always ran off of self-work of a few members, donations, and sponsors primarily because the root community does not play enough of the game itself to have the resources themselves. While everyone else was tossing insults about my alts and bozja, saying I have no life, what did 1 normal person in the thread do? They said, "hey, can you help me? i need x." But I'm not talking to normal people in this thread primarily, I'm talking to people in the stages of grief/shock displaying emotion instead of discussing solutions other than praying to the Twelve.

[Hammersmith]

It's amazing watching someone self destruct this hard because no one cares about their imaginary clout that isn't real that they don't even have.

[dododogu]

really long i dont want to waste space with a long quote

first off: i do not see you as more experienced. i think you're kind of a freak, but i find you strange and kinda funny.

second: this should not cause you to make an anime villain speech about how nobody appreciates you for giving them virtual currency. it's very strange and, i genuinely mean this as actual advice, think you should get help. mmos are supposed to be fun, not cause this sort of distress. And even more so you shouldn't rest your ego entirely on this game. so go outside for a walk. pet an animal. just hit the bricks and log off for a little bit, man.

[VoidsentStatus]

about how nobody appreciates you for giving them virtual currency

This is such a gross simplication that I can't tell if it's a bait or if you just don't know the inner workings and semi-dark underlying purpose of venues as a whole because the only way I can answer/reply to why that simplication is wrong is to put people's mental health in the community on blast. The bare surface/public reason for venues existing, is actually not the reason the most passionate people delve into it. Same goes for roleplay. People simplify and say "to have fun", but what that entails for a good chunk of the community, what they are escaping from, is a lot more concerning and is not what most people would assume. Like this is not a conversation to be had on the forums. Especially knowing people are linking this thread on twitter, I don't want to be openly talking about trigger subjects without reason. Like I am genuinely the last person you should be concerned about.

As for my ego, my ego does not rest entirely on this game. I have higher accomplishments irl and on other games. This game, is a retirement for me. One online cog, in a lot of other online cogs, that benefit the irl cog on occasion. This game does not know what economic competition looks like, they do not know what PvE competition looks like. This is not a game to build ego on because noone here in the general community is competitive by my standards. The only people that give me a resemblance of old peaks/competition I'm used to, are the people I know that can make 2-4bil a week. That are 4x the monster that I am currently. People don't need to be worried about my ego, they should be worried about the people I'm humbled by, that I don't even try because I've seen them toss tens of thousands irl to destroy markets across multiple regions far worse than anything I did and had Square shift protocol just for them. I haven't had that type of power to press a game studio directly in a long time. When you can cause extra hirings, permanent patch changes, and features to be removed from the game permanently, that's when you can have an ego, when you left a permanent mark on the game and they personally marked you as a threat above everyone else. When Square Enix tells you to touch grass, that's when you know you peaked and you were a problem. And I know 2 people that have reached that point that are ban on sight if Square finds them. I'm one of the tamer "freaks" you will get to interact with, even within the venue community. Not even getting into the owners that are willing to commit felonies or did in the past for the sake of their ego.