Online Bullying - A Dev request for a response and discussion

[FeliciaLockheart]

nobody cares if this sort of thing gets to you then your self esteem isnt high is it if people call you names and blah blah over the internet who gives a flying fk not me if ur bad get better this game isnt even hard in all honesty just blacklist people who spam crap at you thats what its there for the baddies will eventually get better games still new

[mikoto_qc]

nobody cares if this sort of thing gets to you then your self esteem isnt high is it if people call you names and blah blah over the internet who gives a flying fk not me if ur bad get better this game isnt even hard in all honesty

It's not about that at all. We are paying for this game. Im not paying to get insulted by real low self-esteem player. If we allowed this @ some points into what this community is going to be? When you place rule about respect there is no place for any kind of bully.

Respect call respect.

[FeliciaLockheart]

It's not about that at all. We are paying for this game. Im not paying to get insulted by real low self-esteem player. If we allowed this @ some points into what this community is going to be? When you place rule about respect there is no place for any kind of bully.

Respect call respect.

well you can always send a email with screen shots or try the support center for time being

[homunyan]

Even if you're not personally bothered by people being jerks to you, is this really the kind of community we want to tolerate? Community is important to an online game and I'd rather not see ARR become another cesspit like WoW or most F2P MMOs.

[Bahram]

Even if you're not personally bothered by people being jerks to you, is this really the kind of community we want to tolerate? Community is important to an online game and I'd rather not see ARR become another cesspit like WoW or most F2P MMOs.

The concept of communal interaction is beyond these people. They are primarily concerned with only one person: themselves.

[Sneakaboo]

Companies can easily provide tools to deal with people like this or simply ban them for 2 weeks.
They won't quit the game since they probably like it.

It's just means that they have to put effort into it and spend some resources.
It's cheaper to tell everybody to get a thick skin and ignore the problem.


Personally I mind these people less, it's just an instant ignore and done.
That or a good cheap laugh at a raging kiddo.

[crisu]

Forlove of god... Whats wrong with people today, does it really bother you so much? It should bother you even more knowing that little kid got to you so much you made this post...... Tere is blacklist in game that helps to prevent this behavior - think of it like knoking somebody out if that was in real life. Online bulling is very very serious issue and you brought it down to the game chat because you are butthurt. Online bulling is real harrasment that affects your life like posting stupid picture of you on facebook or create fb account in your name in order to harras you... Or photoshop your picture... There are many ways but thinking of game chat as online bulling makes me laugh, sorry if im to much of ignorant to understand you on this, maybe its just me being immune to childish behavior in games chat.

[Lugosi]

snip...There are many ways but thinking of game chat as online bulling makes me laugh...snip

Yeah, because using racial slurs and telling someone to kill themselves isn't bullying. >.> You don't know what that other person is going through in real life, and you can't use the simple remedy of just ignore it and move on. Every person is different and you don't know how this can affect them. But hey, by all means, if people want to be whats wrong with the world and don't give a fuck, that's their choice. Someday they are going to meet the wrong person in real life and say the wrong thing, and they deserve what comes next imo. But it is against the TOS of the game, so if these ass hats get banned they have only themselves to blame and I have no compassion for them whatsoever.

[Hawklaser]

You know what would be an interesting experiment, putting all those that abuse other players like what was shown in the OP, and those that are only saying get a thicker skin, deal with it, and etc. all into a single server/duty finder group. I think it would be interesting to see how many of those saying just need to get a thicker skin would actually enjoy playing with those players all the time.

Really, this whole thread is about trying to keep said incidents rare instead of becoming common place. If it is not taken care of now while the community is being established, it will become very hard to get rid of it. It is not about whether or not people can deal with said incidents, but trying to keep them from happening in the first place.

The more vitriolic the established community becomes, the more it is going to hurt continued subscriptions as people deal with it by avoiding the game all together. After all, why pay to play a game where one can get more hate spewed at them than in real life? Forget about it being if the one guy on the receiving end was doing good or bad, look at the larger picture and how it can impact everyone in the game.

[crisu]

Come on now. You don't get to deal with them all the time. There is big difference between dealing with one turd per day and deal with them all the time. Personally, I have not met yet person like OP did in FF XIV, everybody is kind, some people are making stupid jokes sometimes but not a big deal. I understand problem very well from WoW and I see how annoying it can get but I never really thought about it like I was bullied lol... I mean come on... it's some guy somewhere in the world that have such a low self esteem that he need to unload his anger on you... I don't see why would anybody feel bad about opinion of such a person and if he annoys you - ignore. I'm sorry I rushed with judgment I guess I can see how some people can be upset by that but I still wouldn't reduce "online bulling" problem to level of game chat.