In recent interviews Yoshi-P mentioned they would be updating FFXIV’s Terms of Service to make sure they could start getting rid of RMT and Boosting Advertisements. Now’s he’s delivering on that promise.
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If you're asking someone to help you on the exp, then that's completely fine. Not strike if you want to help out. Boosting, on the other hand… yeah. I'm happy that they are really uptight about that and just forbidding that kind of behavior. I see that stupid ad every time in WoW when I used to play there. Having the staff prevent that activity in FF14? It's a great decision overall!
Fuck yeah, Yoshi P !
all boosters/boosties should be banned. whatever game it is. sad that wow doesnt have this mentality. clearly coming from wow community. good thing Yoshi-P gets stuff done. rip blizz. they should ban ybarra from wow for boosting.:)
He's done with it because Square wants to sell boosts and gil themselves.
I only class boosted 2 times. I really liked the monk & dragoon armors with the boosts. I am looking at one more. So that will be 3 separate characters. I am thinking between machinist or black mage?
What i don't understand is why they allow parties to have max ilevels above what's actually achievable in game to begin with
i mean what's the point if you purchase the game and end up boosting your character to finish Ucob, Savage and when playing with your own hand you don't know what stack marker is despite having that legend title.
I love it, Yoshi-P taking out the garbage. Someone said it's draconian, but they guess it needed to be done… It's not, and there is no guessing otherwise FFXIV turns into another version of WOW. Like WOWv2. Fuck that. Yoshi-P got the balls to do it, bless him for that.
Happy if they stop the advertising in game. But people that buy the services from the third party websites should be suspended too, Not just the sellers. People wouldn't sell these things if people didn't buy them and when you do buy clears, gil and boosts you very rarely get penalised for do it. Take out the buyers and there is no market.
I mean RMT stuff has been a plague in FFXIV for years, it didn't start with WoW, it was in everquest before wow ever existed. I don't think it is worse than it has been because I think they have had a better system then they used to have so I noticed less of it lately than I used to see.
I don't even like Square approved boosting through the market. I do support giving a donation to experienced players that sit through and help in a learning party so that newer players can experience a hard raid with the help of an expert.
Boys boys boys boosting will never end trust me there’s always a way
I think your wow token explanation isn't 100% correct. One party gets gold, second gets the money. The amount of gold on the market doesn't change. Yes, it can make one server poorer if people there don't buy tokens so their gold is boosting other servers economy but the amount of gold across all servers doesn't really change. The thing that ruins the economy are bots, not boosters.
14 is the most pointless mmo to RMT currency. I have no clue why anyone would bother. The only things expensive are glamour items. It made way more sense in 11.
The weirdest thing i find on ffxiv not related btw , is the bots teleporting to npc quest givers like 20 of them at same time , this happens all over the place , im sure i am not the only one seeing this bots using cheats , its been years like this and devs didnt figured out how they do it yet or something fishy is going on…
RMT is going to continue being a problem as long as buyers don't get punished and the sellers are permitted to leave their armies of bots farming gil.
A fool if they think they can stop it.
Yep. People can even see the same shit happen IRL right now. Economy stopped for 2 years they printed money like crazy(boosting). Now the inflation is out of control and you need more to be able to do less.
Economy isn't sorcery.
literally the hour Square posted these new rules the PF got cleared of any advertisements lol. The boosters shat themselves and removed their ads with a quickness.
does this prevent streamers from making groups to help viewers through duties?
I was hoping for a bit of information and discussion around the changes. Instead it seemed to mostly be Wow bashing. Would be nice to have some FFXIV content without everyone obsessing over WoW.
Stalking can be pretty bad and it can happen in ways different than the way Asmongold was swarmed. In my FC we used to have a guy and a girl players, the guy is into the girl and they had an EB in game, but then he wanted to make it irl when he found out they are both in Singapore. But the girl didn’t want it and they broke up in game. At first he stalked her in game by following her everywhere even after being blacklisted. He used his friends in the game to report to him where she is and even tried to snipe any pf she is in. He stalks her at places like Limsa market board forcing her to use the one near the FC house (by this time he was kicked), collectible turn in vendors, it was HW so there were very few places, even her grand company so she couldn’t do any functions there. Eventually he made the game too much of a buzzkill that she quit, then the stalking turn irl because Singapore is a small nose hole and stalking is a huge but underreported problem there. Like getting 50 phone calls a day is routine for at least three female Singaporean friends I know, and they treat it like nothing. So yeah, stalking is for losers and it is such an issue when stalkers can interchange that activity between their virtual world and real life.
The only downside to this change is that now RMT people resort to shouting in chat… yesterday i reported like three or four different people in gridania for that reason. I hope they get banned soon