Regarding Forum Rules

[Almalexia]

Posting content with the intention of criticizing either Square Enix staff or specific individuals.

.../sip

I hope 2.0 is a spectacular, award-winning, commercially successful MMO so that the mods ban every one of you delinquents who would dare praise Yoshida and team for "listening to player feedback" or "engineering a successor game from scratch" or "keeping an open channel between developers and subscribers."

The positivity on this board makes me gag.

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

This has always been against the rules.

[Zehira]

This has always been against the rules.

Maybe or maybe not... lol

I think it's important for people to learn the significant rules. The more rules they learn, the slower they run. :3

[Elexia]

Recently a thread was closed due to comparing XIV with another game. I didn't realize that was against forum rules as I couldn't find that myself mentioned in the Forum Guidelines. I'm sure I must be overlooking it so I was hoping someone could point me in right direction.

It also had to do with insults being flung around, otherwise they usually let some stuff slide.

[Yrusama]

Posting aimed to create a negative impact on the community or its members.

I see certain people (who shall remain nameless) doing this every day.

[HiirNoivl]

.... *abandons thread*

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

This thread was doomed before OP pressed POST.

As are all threads questioning the mods authority.

[Duelle]

We really do need an "off-topic" or "general gaming" sub-forums here.

That being said, the only thing that irked me about the discussion was the claims that quest-leveling was responsible for the downfall of several MMOs post-WoW. That's like blaming the catering guy for the downfall of a mega-corporation that has horribly incompetent managers, CEOs and CFOs.

[Elexia]

We really do need an "off-topic" or "general gaming" sub-forums here.

That being said, the only thing that irked me about the discussion was the claims that quest-leveling was responsible for the downfall of several MMOs post-WoW.

It's because people refuse to understand what the one who stated that were talking about. Many were talking about the quality and the fact the majority of new MMOs, mainstream or not (most only seem to know about mainstream MMOs) were the exact same routine, which means people were getting bored, that is what people were talking about.

The OP herself was talking about the quality of quest based leveling and used Tera as an example, which is perfectly acceptable as she had concerns that the quality of quest chaining would be low because realistically, we can't expect 400 mini Final Fantasy game storylines for leveling in basic questing lol, it's just unrealistic and why she hoped SE would show extra care for it compared to most MMO developers.

It wasn't until the usual few attacking anyone who doesn't praise SE every step of the way and their decisions chiming in and flinging insults which is when reports likely went out and mods ended up closing it. They left it visible because until then it was a good discussion.

[Antanias]

We really do need an "off-topic" or "general gaming" sub-forums here.

Iirc there's a forum for that purpose on the SE site.