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Grummz being involved more or less guarantees nothing is going to happen.

And do you actually play/care about this game? You only ever seem to post outrage porn coming from Grummz/Asmongold.
Better to have outrage porn of Grummz than Airbagged's hard drive full of death fetish porn of Grummz getting killed with hammers over and over.

But seriously, if you don't want me to post what Kate Cwynar is posting that's causing backlash, then I won't. I thought Kate is part of the community. You can at least point me to the right topic next time Kate is hinting to be a lolcow again.
 
Better to have outrage porn of Grummz than Airbagged's hard drive full of death fetish porn of Grummz getting killed with hammers over and over.

But seriously, if you don't want me to post what Kate Cwynar is posting that's causing backlash, then I won't. I thought Kate is part of the community. You can at least point me to the right topic next time Kate is hinting to be a lolcow again.
Nah it's cool, I was just curious if you played or not.
 
More Kate drama:

In addition to this older BlueSky post:
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Kate was participating in threads that were critical of BlueSky preventing their users from inciting violence and was reposting some others as well:
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Like, unrelated to the Charlie Kirk situation, encouraging the overthrow of a sovereign nation is never a good look????

As a result of this, basically every post Square Enix has been making is getting flooded with comments regarding her. This was just from under an announcement about The Rising:
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As a result, she's in the process of deleting the vast majority of her posts on BlueSky and is in the process of moving to a new social media app called NorthSky:
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Apparently NorthSky is a clone of BlueSky, but woke.
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I think about 10~ years ago a friend I'd known for ages online messaged me about FFXIV, telling me it was amazing for Roleplaying but also a great MMO I'd enjoy (since I was in my "I must play MMOs all the time" phase), I was initially turned off by the sub but given I was working I picked it up.

Initially I was told it was great for social/fight RPs, something I was always doing on forums but that scene was swiftly dying thanks to discord so I took their word for it, I got the game, registered an account and they told me "Hey, go to Balmung and sign up there!", this begun an absolute ballache of a sign up process I have never since experienced. To call it "Almost impossible" to get a spot wasn't an understatement, I made a character on another world initially but didn't fancy paying to join Balmung (Since you have to pay to transfer characters, having spent already upwards of £60 another £15 to just play felt like a piss take) and this person wouldn't join me elsewhere so to play with my only FFXIV friend and someone willing to help me understand the game I had to play ball. It took me, no joke, 2 weeks to finally get a spot by sneaking out of work to return home, boot up the game and make it during the 3am lul (It was a US game, for me it was like 10am), I made the character and returned to it when I got home after work.

Initially I just noticed how many people were in the "Adventurer inns" I wasn't taking in avatars due to how many chat bubbles there were and just how densely packed this place was, it was a starting hub with literally hundreds of characters in one spot (For context, I've not seen this outside of balmung in the years since), I messaged my friend and they gave me all this regale about how they'd intro me to their friends and I should just play the story in the meantime for a time when they were all on. I played basically alone for about 30hrs (Across I think 2 weeks? Maybe 3?) and hadn't been invited yet, despite insisting, noone RP'd with me but I begun noticing all the ""Naked"" cat women lined up outside any major hub (Adventurer inns in every town) eliciting ERP from people, this was something I found kind of offputting but I also didn't pay it much mind and just continued playing, not really interacting "Normally" with anyone (Noone would talk normally like it was a game, it was all RP interactions), I got hampered by rampant bots which ruined certain spots (They'll have 20 bots in a huddle all camping enemies which can hinder major story quests with 'Kill X enemy' things) and I was enjoying the game, but noticing it's issues.

Finally, after about 3 weeks I got a proper introduction to this group of friends or "Free Company (Guild)", I got added and told to join their little event in a house, so I walk on over after being told by my friend in some fucking weird way how "We have a place in Ul'Dah, it's the best, like omg", like when those dudes talk about owning a BMW because anything else is a fucking joke of a car. I walked downstairs into the 'Basement' of this building and everyone was stood around RPing so I tried to introduce myself;

"Hello, I'm (character) ((IDR the fucking name)), I am a Dark mage!"

Everyone pauses and noone says anything or interacts, I get a very annoyed whisper from my friend;

"DUDE DONT SAY THAT, DARK MAGES ARE A BANNED CLASS!!!"

Lol what?

So, turns out ""in roleplay"" in this server certain jobs/classes are ""illegal"" due to stigma or what they do, even though yknow, the storyline has no reference to this, those guilds are open and public and at no point had this person pointed it out to me despite knowing I had picked this class. So I pivot and retry;

"Hey, I'm ( x ), I'm a traveller who's a Thautamage and I was interested in becoming a part of your company!"

Finally, they interact with me, unlike earlier where it felt like I had walked in and dropped a giant deuce on the floor, but the entire time my friend is banging my whispers to tell me "YOU CANT SAY THAT BECAUSE BALMUNG RP RULES SAY YOU CAN'T", like there was some unwritten set of laws and rules I was supposed to know *by playing the main storyline and not never roleplaying* immediately and sign up to. This session lasted maybe an hour since I made an excuse and stopped playing on that server and stopped playing with that friend (Which later led to the complete dissolution of our friendship), now Balmung has a rampant rep of being what OP states, an overflowing mass of ERP and overly pretentious "Awesome Roleplayers" who are so fucking elitist it's retarded. Infact now I write this out the experience was so awful I stopped any form of roleplay online afterward and only recently got back into tabletop roleplay as a result.


The Toxic Positivity is also fucking horrendous, like it wasn't so bad when I was playing 'Full time' but when I last tried returning in 2024 it was awful. You literally cannot say anything 'minorly abrasive' without people falling apart at the seams, reporting you and having moderation up your rear end. I had a friend who stopped playing because they gave someone decently creative critique on their playing without being a douchebag, they got reported and received a warning from moderation, it's actually unbearable. I honestly love the game outside of it's fucking community but I simply don't want to interact with a product with such a bad cred that the leads have to literally beg the community to quit making ERP/NSFW +18 mods and content because they don't want their game to be associated with it, to which the community gets mad and doubles down.
 
More Kate drama:

In addition to this older BlueSky post:
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Kate was participating in threads that were critical of BlueSky preventing their users from inciting violence and was reposting some others as well:
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Like, unrelated to the Charlie Kirk situation, encouraging the overthrow of a sovereign nation is never a good look????

As a result of this, basically every post Square Enix has been making is getting flooded with comments regarding her. This was just from under an announcement about The Rising:
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As a result, she's in the process of deleting the vast majority of her posts on BlueSky and is in the process of moving to a new social media app called NorthSky:
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Apparently NorthSky is a clone of BlueSky, but woke.
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Genuinely confused here. Wasn't BlueSky intended to be the designated "safe space" for these people? Guess I'm out of the loop. Rate me late or autistic or whatever.
 
Genuinely confused here. Wasn't BlueSky intended to be the designated "safe space" for these people? Guess I'm out of the loop. Rate me late or autistic or whatever.
It was but they are all locked in a never ending circle looking to purge the non-pure from their ranks. The non-pure includes anyone who is not perfectly in lockstep with whatever the prevailing Current Opinion is which changes at a moment's notice. If you are found out of lockstep even for a moment its too late. You must be purged and unpersoned lest they be stained by knowing you!

There's no satisfying them.
 
Genuinely confused here. Wasn't BlueSky intended to be the designated "safe space" for these people? Guess I'm out of the loop. Rate me late or autistic or whatever.

yes, but there is literally no space that is actually safe enough for these "people", hence they will inevitably continue to circle towards more restricted settings

as long as the mere possibility exists that anyone can disagree with them and has the ability to express said disagreement, dangerhair there is going to be freaking out
 
It looks like Kate took down her Linkedin profile, and her bluesky account was suspended. Doesn't really mean anything happened, but we can pray
I don't know if I want her to actually be fired.

On the one hand, I refuse to play this dumpster fire anymore while she is prominently attached to it.

On the other hand, that's a great excuse to stop playing this dumpster fire.
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More Kate drama:

In addition to this older BlueSky post:
Wyświetl załącznik 7911659
Kate was participating in threads that were critical of BlueSky preventing their users from inciting violence and was reposting some others as well:
Wyświetl załącznik 7911663Wyświetl załącznik 7911665
Wyświetl załącznik 7911686
Like, unrelated to the Charlie Kirk situation, encouraging the overthrow of a sovereign nation is never a good look????

As a result of this, basically every post Square Enix has been making is getting flooded with comments regarding her. This was just from under an announcement about The Rising:
Wyświetl załącznik 7911678
As a result, she's in the process of deleting the vast majority of her posts on BlueSky and is in the process of moving to a new social media app called NorthSky:
Wyświetl załącznik 7911684
Apparently NorthSky is a clone of BlueSky, but woke.
Wyświetl załącznik 7911705
Wyświetl załącznik 7911716
It looks like Kate took down her Linkedin profile, and her bluesky account was suspended. Doesn't really mean anything happened, but we can pray
She's back by the way.
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She's got that lolcow fighting spirit - give her an opportunity to bow out and she reaffirms her commitment to never stop posting.

There's no reason she can't just make an anonymous account not tied to her IRL employment and identity like the rest of us and do political shitposting there, no, her opinions must be heard far and wide.

In other community news, apparently one of the larger brothels on Balmung is closing because its owner found Jesus. (Image from Twitter, the redaction isn't mine.)

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She's also done a performative privating of socials at least once, maybe twice before. I know it doesn't matter with her BlueSky, but more her LinkedIn.
 
There's no reason she can't just make an anonymous account not tied to her IRL employment and identity like the rest of us and do political shitposting there, no, her opinions must be heard far and wide.
Well, other than the fact that she clearly wants to use her position as a Real Game Dev™ for clout in her postings, and thinks it affords her more credibility than some anonymous replyguy.

But also she has had no reason up to this point to consider that any of her postings could have actual consequences, and isn't used to having the shoe on the other foot.
 
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I don't see much of an overlap of MAGA and FFXIV, and what little there are probably still aren't the type to go to fanfest.
if they did actually show up to fight off the "facists", They'd likely just be in-fighting and lashing out at random people and make the entire event a shitshow.

Not that I'd expect anything to happen, MMO turbo autists tend to not be all that threatening in real life.
 
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