Quote Originally Posted by Asriah View Post
That makes no sense. Restricting post count doesn't make people prioritize happy thoughts.
It doesn't make people have happy thoughts, but it does cut down on the number of threads that were getting posted every second such as...

-Why I think ARR will fail/succeed
-Grass
-Immersion
-Make FFXIV F2P
-Bring back 1.0
-Where's my FFXI 2.0
-I haven't gotten my early access code/ My code's screwed up.
-Battle system
-Gear Swap

...and the list goes on and on and on.

Seriously, before the restrictions were put in place, every time there was an issue, new dev post, news, video, etc. there's at least 10 new topics being posted about it every 5 minutes. It was seriously just that bad and if people really can't control themselves, like they proved thus far they can't, the devs have to do something to keep the forums manageable.