Competitions on X :(

[CaptainLagbeard]

X is mostly the right and center while Bluesky is mostly the left in a massive majority, there you go I said it.

The people wanting competitions to be held on Bluesky are simply people that dont support Elon's political views (and also directly disapprove of Trump as president).

People have the right to their political views, but dont expect gaming companies to cater to them. X is a perfectly fine platform and you can avoid all the political drama by... just not looking at it.

Step 1 : Search on google "FFXIV on X"
Step 2 : Click the first link that pops up
Step 3 : You can now participate in the competition with 0 drama at all or political stuff.

You're welcome.

Or perhaps this is all virtue signaling because "not muh president" and "we dont support elon !!!"

This whole thing screams of "moooooooooooom I dont want go to to that restaurant I want to go to that one instead !!!! mooooooooooom!!!!"

Also lol @ "multiple threads" there were 3 in like over 2 months, what a massive topic of conversation I am sure SE are shaking in their boots right now at this "massive" uproar

Seriously you people need to get over yourselves.

Unironically, X was the most politically neutral platform for some time, maybe even still is, but most of the political left wanted to isolate themselves on bluesky.

[OMGJesuis66]

This whole thing screams of "moooooooooooom I dont want go to to that restaurant I want to go to that one instead !!!! mooooooooooom!!!!"

Some people have no desire to engage in a product of a company whose values they are against.
It's just that simple.
If someone doesn't have an account but wishes to participate in the community event of their favorite game, now they need to make an account of the website they do not like.
Now, they need to give engagement and metrics to the website they don't like.
And that is without thinking how clunky that website is for navigation and submissions of material, even more if you do not have a habit to utilize it.
It's a lot of loops that demotivates people, simple as, and the concept does not apply to only X.
I like Alan Wake series and couldn't nor will play the 2nd one because they are an Epic exclusive, and I have no desire to make an Epic account, even less to just play one game.
It be what it be.

[OMGJesuis66]

Unironically, X was the most politically neutral platform for some time, maybe even still is, but most of the political left wanted to isolate themselves on bluesky.

Huge bullshit, but ok.

[Clockworks]

Unironically, X was the most politically neutral platform for some time, maybe even still is, but most of the political left wanted to isolate themselves on bluesky.

I still think its a mix of everything on X, I was mostly talking about "preferences" and X became very right focused BECAUSE the left decided to go on different platforms such as Bluesky and even the hilarious tiktok replacement that was an app from China, the left wants to be on their own in their own echo chamber, and then wonders why X has a lot of the people from the right, while it's quite literally their own doing by going to a different platform with only them on it.

Some people have no desire to engage in a product of a company whose values they are against.
It's just that simple.
If someone doesn't have an account but wishes to participate in the community event of their favorite game, now they need to make an account of the website they do not like.
Now, they need to give engagement and metrics to the website they don't like.
And that is without thinking how clunky that website is for navigation and submissions of material, even more if you do not have a habit to utilize it.
It's a lot of loops that demotivates people, simple as, and the concept does not apply to only X.
I like Alan Wake series and couldn't nor will play the 2nd one because they are an Epic exclusive, and I have no desire to make an Epic account, even less to just play one game.
It be what it be.

Fair, but then not everything is for everyone, and not every single person should be catered to, that's how life works.

[OMGJesuis66]

Fair, but then not everything is for everyone, and not every single person should be catered to, that's how life works.

Except when you are trying to make an event to engage with the community and act as a publicity stunt at the same time, you need to aim to engage as many people of the playerbase as possible.
Opening different venues of submission allows such to happen, It's not about "Not everything is for everyone", it's about genuinely trying to reach out to your playerbase as a whole.
A good example of a failed promotion on another platform these days was the Mt.Dew event in World of Warcraft.

A unique and exclusive mount was given in-game to only North Americans or those who managed to play in a very specific server out of dozens the game has. A lot of people were vastly demotivated by how the promotion was handled, and while there was a huge interest at participating and earning the things, the whole limitation of a *digital product* (therefore, not finite), really made people not pay attention to the promotion or attempt to be involved with what was the first-ever promotion that World of Warcraft was doing, and now that mount will never return to a huge part of the populace, because WoW still lives with many FOMO material in mind.

Such a thing is just a very short-sighted approach to handling promotions in general and a trend in many companies. Pointing out that it's a flawed system by itself is the only way people may genuinely have a decent amount of venues so the playerbase can engage with it.

[Oizen]

Bluesky is the truth social of the left.

[AllenThyl]

I still think its a mix of everything on X, I was mostly talking about "preferences" and X became very right focused BECAUSE the left decided to go on different platforms such as Bluesky

Yeah, that definitely wasn't correlated to the rule changes that allowed hate speech on the platform, including unbanning accounts of self-professed neo-nazis and white supremacists, as well as a certain convicted rapist. You do know why the right wing propaganda works so well on you, do you? And it's not because of your amazing critical thinking skills.

[Clockworks]

Yeah, that definitely wasn't correlated to the rule changes that allowed hate speech on the platform, including unbanning accounts of self-professed neo-nazis and white supremacists, as well as a certain convicted rapist. You do know why the right wing propaganda works so well on you, do you? And it's not because of your amazing critical thinking skills.

I actually dont care about politics be it left or right, and if I did want to participate in the competition, I would get over it and participate and then leave the website, it's not rocket science to ignore things you dont like.

But then again, it's part of me being a mature adult to have control of how I do things and how I handle things I dislike. If I dont like something, I dont need the entire world to adapt to me and my dislike of that thing, I'll just... not use it.

Also, X and Bluesky are very equal in terms of hate speech, because I have huge news for you, hating on white men is also racism, and that's a lot of what Bluesky does.

[Mawlzy]

I actually dont care about politics be it left or right, and if I did want to participate in the competition, I would get over it and participate and then leave the website, it's not rocket science to ignore things you dont like.

But then again, it's part of me being a mature adult to have control of how I do things and how I handle things I dislike. If I dont like something, I dont need the entire world to adapt to me and my dislike of that thing, I'll just... not use it.

Also, X and Bluesky are very equal in terms of hate speech, because I have huge news for you, hating on white men is also racism, and that's a lot of what Bluesky does.

I was wondering why Cider Spider called you out as a forum troll. Now I know.

[Clockworks]

I was wondering why Cider Spider called you out as a forum troll. Now I know.

I'm sorry who ? Lmao

And yes, hating on white men is racism, you can agree or disagree, I couldnt care less. I would love to know how that somehow makes me a troll.