Official XIV forums are up, with ridiculous posting limits!Follow

Actually, I had never planned to troll the main forums until I just read about this stupid limitation...

This is how Wint rolls!

I like the setup actually.

I gotta call BS on this one:). You know you wanted to troll it:).

On a side note, I hope that it doesn't drive other people away. I was actually really happy when the trolls started leaving the ZAM forums for the Beta forums...

This was my home for 11, and since 14 has been, well, we will call it less than abysmal, there has really been nothing much to post about anything, or to read that wasn't troll-bate or otherwise.

I can't wait to get my initial tanking gearset up, and to get some info on minions going soon, and share it with all.

Which, on a side note, for all you crafters, beware the trap that is the Dullahan (and the Vangard for that matter). It is an awesome minion that is specifically designed to pull Darksteel out of the economy. Given the current difficulty of creating darksteel nuggets, the abundant supply of Darksteel ore and nuggets out there, and the OBSCENELY difficult process to get new ones, I have a feeling those pets are going to spike in price once people start running out, and the gear, which is still pretty good is going to also spike significantly.

Each Dullahan costs 9 Darksteel Ore (3 Nuggets) to make. I have not even seen the node that spawns that you can get Darksteel from, but it is a * node (for those that don't know, these nodes have a 10/20/30 minute apparently random spawn time, and require you use 300 GP before you can even start gathering from the node, but, you typically get 3x items per attempt, and get 1 additional attempt per node, and are level 50).

Hopefully the nodes appear in the Early Access... but I digress...

Aaaaand how awesome is that. It doesn't even let me post the reason is beyond be of course since I linked my char and haven't made any other post. Awesome just awesome.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 11:37am by Teravibe

When I was browsing the beta forums, I noticed a lot of threads that kept repeating the same topic that was raised many times before. I also noticed how staggering the post count in the English forums were. The English general had about 4000 pages while the Japanese general had about 400.

Okay forum mods can react to those situations. Heck, they can ban those that refuse to adhere to the forum polices and guidelines. How about they take corrective actions on those instead of punishing the rest?

I'd limit the English forums too honestly :\ It was literally like walking into a room of people shoving and yelling over each other and repeating the same things 7 times over and over using the excuse "I didn't see this posted yet but I didn't choose to go past the first page."

At that point, wouldn't you just say ***** it and throw in universal limits? Otherwise the English forums would get horrible like it did in Beta lol.

I understand the majority of you are happy with sites like ZAM for your community gaming needs. I personally haven't actively participated in ZAM for years. I've been a member of it for 20 years, with some paid subs thrown in on occasion. I have no large post count, so you can see I am not someone who posts a lot. This is true for most forums I subscribe to.

For better or worse, I've stayed with the games official forums. That is where I want to post. You wouldn't agree to those restrictions here. So why should those that prefer posting on official forums?

Sooo.. let me get this straight.. you only care about yourself and if it doesn't bother you than everything is A OK? thats like saying "well i dont need a wheelchair why does this building need a ramp" Not everyone is gonna rush to 50 jsut to get forum up to its max potential. Seems like SE is taking things alittle to far with the rules.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 12:10pm by silverhope

I must have had...100-ish (perhaps less) posts in the Beta forums.

But most of them, I mean, 8/10 were over 1,000 characters, for a variety of reasons. Same goes for Zam and everywhere really, small / tiny posts are in the minority where I'm concerned.

I do value good (read: non-troll-ish) debate however.

Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking too.

A 1000-character limit on posts in discussion forums severely limits the feedback that players are able to provide about the game, at least in the obvious place to provide feedback about a game. It's a step backwards on their path to better communication with the community.

Either that or they really just can't be bothered to read anything longer than a paragraph.