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The only question is how and when... I knew there was a reason I hadn't bought the expansion yet, and now, it's probably clear that I'm going to lose a second account because I no longer wish to deal with the idiocy, obstruction, and deliberate sandbagging of many of the trolls and kek-cats who populate Final Fantasy XIV.

I'm talking, of course, about the new additions to the Penalty and Prohibited Acts rules.

To those talking on the forums: YES, it IS often quite difficult not to be a jerk or rude to people who:

* Deliberately throw every PvP match because they just want their mogtomes/tomestones/XP, without regard of participation in the event -- there's a simple solution, but SE won't implement it because it'll probably make the trolls worse (Losers Get Zero).

* Turn the housing market into a complete RMT-ladened farce. And if you honestly think 6.1 is going to do any better in that regard with this supposed lottery, perhaps you need to remember the kind of people some of the Square-Enix Community Team have been known to hang with for over a decade now -- I'm looking at you, Order of the Blu Gartr and all that.

The entire point of FFXIV was not to have to gate content behind RMT and account sellers, and it's clear we still have, in this company (and in the game too, when you see the extent Yoshi-P had to go to close the loophole RMT were using to RMT Savage clears in the Party Finder) people who have openly supported RMT, people who have almost certainly profited, in some form, from RMT...

None of this is going to change. I still truly believe that, by the time some of you try to log in at the start of 6.1, you're going to be in for a nasty surprise. It's called a DDoS. If the RMT don't flood the lottery system, that's the next thing they're going to try.

* So let me get this straight:

If I have another person/party/alliance/entire PvP team who refuses to try to do anything to clear/win the content, what are my legal in-game options?? (I've done several of these, but these appear ALL to be illegal under the Terms...)

-- Go off somewhere, let them chase their butterflies, AFK, check the news on the web, make sure I fake some degree of movement so the Duty timeout doesn't trigger, etc.

-- Demand if they don't like my style of play to forcibly remove/kick me from the duty?

-- Leave on it's own merit (which is ALSO against the ToS!)...

-- Or is my only legal option NOT TO PLAY THE CONTENT AT ALL, Square-Enix?

You have, thence, created legal obstruction by the these trolls and lolcats who can dictate to us what content we can do (If any!! -- there are now people who believe they may need to Party Finder among "goods" to actually even play the 6.0 dungeons and trials!!) and under what conditions.

Isn't that also illegal under the ToS as well, SE? Or is that OK, as long as "enough people" are like this that they have at least the sanction of the Community behind them?

I've already had to report one person because they were deciding they didn't like my pull speed as tank, I struggled (and stated as such) that I was having trouble, under the new rules, stating openly they needed to stop (since they already felt the need to pull excessively (IMHO), any reasonable recourse was pretty much out the door -- confirmed when one of them said they hoped the next group would respect my feefees...).

Congratulations, SE. I'm losing another account. The only question is where, when, and to whom. You also have made sure I am going to delay purchase of Endwalker to effectively the last feasible time before Early Access. I was already having doubts I was not going to run afoul of the GMs before 6.0 hits, and that's $40 down the drain.

Yes, for some of us, it IS that difficult -- but you have now, not only given them license to corrupt gameplay experiences. You've given them authority to do so as long as it is large enough of a group to bake it into the culture and community.

Thanks.