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

One can only hope that the old workaround from the Beta forums will still work, which was that you could simply edit your post after it was posted, and then add as much extra content as you wanted to it right away, since the time restriction nor character limit affected that.

I'm sort of reminded of the denseness that the old development team had when it came to 1.x and the chat system in-game. At the beginning and for months afterwards the character limit was something around 80 characters, barely half a tweet. That's all well and good for your Japanese players and posters who can condense much of their conversation in to symbols that represent whole phrases or several words, but imagine how painfully annoying that is for English speakers. And let's not even consider how bad it will be for the Germans, whose whole vocabulary is all about combining words together wholesale.

I think Elmerthepointy, an old friend of mine and former ZAM Moderator, even wrote up a op-ed about that very issue back during 1.x as well.

Anyway, getting a little off track. The point is that the character limitation is incredibly silly. Threads per day limit? Totally fine and cool, and makes plenty of sense. But post restrictions built around time and characters is far too restrictive.

Putting words in people's mouth's shame on you. Every area a new player will need to post they have unlimited posts... Let me know what problems someone might have with this?

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 12:46pm by Mopdaddy

The workaround does work, praise the Crystal or something.

I'll have you know that there is a hidden character limit per post, even post-edit, and that's 70,000 characters. While much more reasonable than 1,000 (duh!), I was able to reach it when i had pasted several articles inside a single post, creating a monstrous thread which was on the verge of breaching 70,000 characters.

Of course, the very same thread here on Zam, containing more than 70,000 characters in the end, did survive perfectly well. Which is one of the hidden reasons Zam rules

It is kinda sad, while I understand they want people to use the search function and to try to be a little more productive in their posts than a "lol /10chars", it seems like a disservice to productive topics between people, and limits the ability of people to defend their posts or to follow up.

Than again ***** the official forums Zam is way more useful and the community is solid. Now if I can only fix my signature

I just had a thought about the 1000 character limit, which should have been mentioned in my prior post. The people most likely making the decisions on forums guidelines are Japanese and 1000 kanji characters (words) can say a hell of alot more than a 1000 characters in English. Sounds like something they overlooked.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 1:51pm by PyrielDD

I love when the hypothetical questions come b.v that is when you know people are grasping at straws. Also read again which areas have unlimited posts.

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 1:40pm by Mopdaddy

After responding to a troll in the beta forums, his opinion was that FFXIV was going to fail through lack of players and it would go FTP in a very short time. Foolishly, I called him a low post count troll, who just wanted to make a name for himself or he would have posted in the myriad of threads made on the subject. The thread went on forever and he and others said much worse.

I played FFXI for 11 years, FFXIV for 6 months and never ever got even one GM visit nor ban, the comment above got me suspended for 270 hours and the threat of banning access to my FFXI forum my FFXIV forum and if I persist in my actions then a possible banning of my account entirely as these infractions are cumulative. I was crushed!

This is the corrective action that was taken against me!

Trust me, lesson learned, I will never interact on Squeenix forums again.

Okay, let me try to understand.

Some individual posted his opinion (I'm guessing in General Chat forum) on what he believed would happen with the game. You responded with name calling and proceed to berate his opinion instead of simply disagreeing with him while offering your counter opinions on why you thought he was wrong.

And... you wonder why you got in trouble with SE's forum moderators?

I'm not sure what you believe the definition of a forum troll is. But I believe you were acting as such.

Conversely, when are people most likely to ask for assistance; When they're just starting or at a theoretical half-way point?

Edited, Aug 22nd 2013 3:40pm by lolgaxe

Give us your poor, your angry, your hungry trolls...?

Is that the Statue of Levity I see in the distance?