SE DMCA Against Private Server Streams?!?!?

I wonder if Scragg or Jaerik ever look at the site now

(I am not trying to plug my video here honest, I put it on my own thread, but I'm just highlighting this one to make a point.)

You can very easily achieve an experience closer to classic era FFXI by playing Retail under your own self-imposed restrictions. We have been having a BLAST playing our 'Iron Man Mode' challenge, achieving goofy things that we normally wouldn't have to worry about. I've been camping FRAELISSA in order to get a Petrified Log to unlock Geomancer. WHO THE HELL IS FRAELISSA. :P

It's a refreshing, and truer-to-era experience with all the QoL you want, or don't want. It's up to you. Make your own damn fun. Don't rely on Aerec or any other 'Private Server Developer' to make it fun for you, cos they're just gonna buff Thief and ban you for criticizing them anyway. ;)

Retail is the superior experience because like it or not, it's made by ACTUAL game developers, not people who ripped off a code and then have the sheer brass balls to write 'letters from the developer' posts. There is no ONE way to play a video game. Nobody else pays your sub. So play it however you want to, and don't go looking for an experience 'tailored' for you. Tailor it yourself. That's my 2 cents.

I will add that if anybody enjoys Horizon, that's ok. I've said a million times I prefer people LIKE something than don't. But HXI is such a shady, scummy operation that I just can't get on board.

not people who ripped off a code

But HXI is such a shady, scummy operation

It's not like they're out there running coin mining with hacked clients.

That doesn't mean it's a "shady operation." Unethical, poor vetting of their trusted members perhaps, but not "shady."

Don't be so quick to put aside harassment as "not shady" or "anecdotal". That's pretty frakking shady, not to mention outright illegal.

All these people reporting it, again you can find multiple first hand reports not just here but on reddit with details no one else would have, have no reason to lie.

Horizon staff are judged by their actions. By those actions they and their operation are inherently shady.

Guy don't worry, it's not shady, it's just unethical. What's the problem?

Alleged harassment doesn't fit the definition of shady that I'm familiar with but ok.

Alleged

You'd be hard press to bring charges for somebody "harassing" you in a video game that you choose to play, especially when you're on their server specifically. Not to mention to get them to stick.

"the charges won't stick in a court of law"

Wow, re-reading this post, it's an incredible treasure trove of hot takes. Apparently now because you were harassed in a video game it's not real. If you were harassed through text messages is it OK because they weren't physically assaulting you? How about an email at work, is that fine because the person didn't actually approach you in person? I mean, you did choose to go to work, and chose to give that person your phone number, so you were asking for it, right? What if you went to a friend's party, you went to that party specifically, so it's pretty much your fault.

I also love "the charges won't stick in a court of law" as if that also makes it OK. Sorry, this won't hold up to the rigors of the court system, guess it never happened and you're a liar.

You're probably right though, people do routinely make up harassment claims out of whole cloth, it's a big problem, we should assume they're lying and not the proven liars and deceitful people. I mean, they have nothing to gain by hiding these problems, and the people whose characters are banned have a whole lot to gain by making up accusations like...maybe slightly lowering the population of a server they don't play on anymore?

common exploiter's mentality. bro is telling on himself. private servers are made by/for dudes like that

Get over yourself.

If arguing semantics on the definition of shady and not shady is the best argument for pro-Horizon.. damn, that's some weak sauce.

Alleged strawman, it hasn't been proven in court. Also you chose to post here, and it's just a video game forum so it's not a big deal.

Don't be obtuse.

If it were only so simple as capping your level.

There’s more to it than that, which we all know.

Yup. That’s pretty much what I meant.

Agreed.

If it were only so simple as capping your level.

There’s more to it than that, which we all know.