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Hello! We seem to have suddenly increased the number of people in the forum tenfold, so I figure I should take a moment to welcome all the new faces on behalf of the forum team. We roam the various forums for all the games and forum sections addition to your FFXIV content manager team of Wint (senior Content Manager), Elmer (Content Manager) and Thayos (content manager), righting wrongs and smiting the occasional forum ad spammers, or something like that. For any game related questions (no I don't know how to disable the jump button), the FFXIV content managers will be your best bet for answers. We're happy to help with anything else. Feel free to PM me with any questions or concerns you might have. I can also be reached at kaolian@allakhazam.com (kaolian@zam.com "should" also work but I haven't tested it)

Enjoy your stay!

Kaolian Drachensborn
Senior Forum Administrator
Zam.com

Points of interest around the forum:
The Zam staff list: http://ffxiv.zam.com/wiki/Staff_List
- Who are all these crazy people with orange names running around around here, and what do they do? Your handy list of forum and site admins! Now complete with birdwatching-esque score card. Collect the whole set! (score card not included in locations containing vowles or consonents - Offer not available in Ghana on a Tuesday - void where permitted - do not taunt happy fun ball)

Site and forum feedback: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=3
- The "talk to the site admins" forum. Account questions, site bugs, complaints, comments, etc, all go here.

The Out of Topic forum: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=28
- The place for any and all topics not game related.

The Asylum: http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=4
- The forum equivalent of the wild west. Limited moderation, limited rules. If you feel the need to flame the crap out of someone, that's where you'll want to be. "Here there be dragons...", you were warned!

The forum rules: http://ffxiv.zam.com/wiki/Forum_Rules
- The official ruleset for the Zam forum system. Please feel free to ask any of us for clarification about any of the rules at any time if you are ever in doubt.

How does the karma system work, and what are those little green and red arrows for? (or why can't I see the red and green arrows?) : http://ffxiv.zam.com/forum.html?forum=3&mid=130408061299397975&h=50&p=1#18
- Everything you need to know about the different colored user names, how to get one, etc.

I have been seeing quite a good bit of new people. Welcome Guys! Hope you enjoy it here. As for all you Anonymous guests, I welcome you as well! :D

perhaps this would be a great thread for me to pose this question, will there ever be specific forums for each individual class/job rather than the current grouping of all disciplines of war/magic/land/hand all together?

Thank you for the welcoming words.

Great to see the influx of new people, the game's lively, forums are lively, it's fun!

The welcome is much appreciated. I like the tone of these forums better than anything else I have seen. The members are also quite welcoming and generous!

Surely you've been at ZAM long enough to know better

welcome ^_^

A place for dungeon guides and discussion.

A pvp sub forum would be great! Not much of a list, I know :(.

This welcome forum seems like a good idea to me. Also, would be nice to have a Legacy player sub-forum to separate them from the common rabble. I'm joking! Don't get all crazy!

Oh, it's a little off topic, but is there anyway you guys could add an indication to threads that you, yourself, have posted in? I'm not sure how complicated this would be, but would be a really great feature.

Edited, Aug 19th 2013 9:02pm by DragonBourne

/bow to Dread Lord

Hello to everyone. Been here since p2. Cheers!

Thanks for passing this on Geffe.

My concern was the degree of confusion caused by the name FFXIV and the fact that there are so many necro posts many of which are now irrelevant as they pertain to V1.x I hoped ZAM would be the place to come for FFXIV:ARR info as it has been in the past for FFXI and was for FFXIV.

Any people coming here for the first time (There will be some) or old players returning, will be confused by old info often stickied which is now completely pointless and uninformative. As an example in the DOL forum the top post is a sticky for Wints "Thoughts on fishing" followed by another "So you want to be a miner " by ketage. Both were helpful 3 years ago at the start of V1 of FFXIV but neither should be a sticky.

These all need to be gone through. EACH FORUM and either moved or deleted. There are many many other threads with similar misinformation and outdated content.

This *should* have been done before now as this is the exact time that new players will come here looking for things pertaining to the new game. If it is done right away, there is a chance that people will come here again. But if it drags on like this then people will come here, say wtf! and leave thinking the forums here are a waste of time. Very sad.