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Cacciato posted...

Sounds like it was. Please stop crying.

It's not, so stop acting like a petulant child give me a real answer if you can.

I started that topic, focusing that game in relation to a real world event. Not directly about the Hong Kong protests, but about that Hearthstone player talking about the protests in a gaming environment. That game published by Activision/Blizzard, which also publishes World of Warcraft, and already their General Discussion board is frantically censoring all talk about the issue (even to the point that their moderator quit the company altogether). ...so what about other gaming companies? Namely Square Enix, based in Japan, neighbor to China, 2nd best MMO to WoW, possibly a larger Chinese following than that of WoW.....how bad do their moderators and GMs have it to censor people?

Now think of this based on the common gaming consumer...... Final Fantasy, practically a 40 year old franchise, beloved by any veteran of gaming around the world. Pays nearly $60 - $100 on the base game and possibly MTX fan servicing, and a few months of subs.....puts in months of progress into his character, and suddenly he's erased from the server he was playing on? You pay over $500 to maintain the upkeep on the game, and suddenly someone with 'moral authority' decides to ban your account? "Why buy the game then?"

Now my backstory with FFXIV was that when ARR released, I played pretty faithfully to the end of the second expansion, then quit the game. 3 years and two expansions go by, and I'm thinking of returning to the game. But in light of recent events, I'm was just wondering if I have to watch what I say playing this particular game.....this is a very legit FFXIV topic.

I'm going to re-invest my time and money in that game, only to find out I could lose it all in an instant because someone in game chat typed "China" and all the alarm bells started to go off, and I'm on a list?....Obviously, I can't go to the game's official forums, so I come here.

...and what do I get? The exact same fucking thing I was afraid of......the only saving grace is not giving gFAQs my money.