(01-02-2016, 02:53 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(12-31-2015, 10:13 AM)Kage Wrote: The FC leader in this instance is one of those I honestly would not mind naming and shaming on the official forum or here but alas.
Unfortunately, in this instance, I do not believe the GM even knew what the problem (what kept everyone from just leaving) is or was. They didn't have the power to do anything about the housing keeping them locked issue (I'm at work but I've read a few things here or there about what usual powers GMs have and don't have.) but they really should have dealt with the issue involved with the FC leader griefing people.
Tiergan, with Tiergan's FC help, was only able to recreate the issue in a -very specific- circumstance. Guest Access to the Estate must be turned off. The GMs, most likely as most of us didn't know, that people couldn't remove furnishings if they have 0 privileges, No Estate Hall Access -AND- Guests cannot enter the estate.
The idea that a GM - a freaking Game Master - could simply be unaware that this was possible is, quite frankly, inexcusable. Â Do they not play the same game that we play? Â Are they stupid? Â Is support composed of three baboons sitting around playing with their own feces? Â How in god's name could they just not know? Â I mean, unless support is composed of blithering idiots?
I'll say that 40-50% of GMs in MMORPGs never played the game. But also, some of the GMs in FF14 are pretty oblivious too. I've heard about the story of that FC being by ransoming for gil for members to get out by holding them as hostage to lock the access from ever removing their rooms from their FC house. It really sucks.
But it is also true that in the terms of agreements that players cannot ticket reports for someone else since that is considered of "disadvantage support". Which is stupid. I remember I tried to ticket for someone else in regards to unrelated to this topic, but it was rejected since the GM pretty much brought up ToA.
I've had good GMs and I've had really bad dumb GMs. But I feel like most of them are just following by the policy way too much that they don't want to take action to help the members who desperately need assistance.