Ultimate Fantasy XIV is on Xbox now, and the MMORPG’s transition to the system has been tough, to say the least. On prime of including a brand new foreign money and requiring customers to subscribe to Xbox Recreation Go to play, the group is reporting bans on an Xbox system stage for utilizing the sport’s long-used vernacular and techniques to group up with different gamers inside Xbox’s Trying For Group characteristic.
Information of this began spreading on-line on March 29, round per week after Ultimate Fantasy XIV’s long-awaited port got here to Xbox. The controversy began with a put up on Reddit from consumer TGB_B20kEn claiming they’d been banned on Xbox for utilizing the time period “free firm,” which is an FF14 equal of a guild, inside Xbox’s Trying For Group characteristic. The characteristic is, as the corporate describes it, a “gamers wished” bulletin board the place customers can search for others to hitch their recreation. Within the put up, which now has over a thousand upvotes, the consumer says they filed an attraction to have the ban eliminated, which was denied by Xbox’s moderation staff. The ban is set to final 61 days, and was in response to this message asking new gamers (recognized colloquially as sprouts) in the event that they wished to hitch their free firm:
“Hey Sprouts! We’re presently recruiting for a brand new Free Firm that accepts anybody! Please have Discord as a result of we’ve PC Gamers! Pm if buddies!”
Some responded by asking TGB_B20kEn if it could have been the Discord solicitation that triggered the ban, however the consumer claims they’ve requested that individuals be prepared to make use of Discord on the platform earlier than, and identified that Xbox has built-in the social media platform into its companies. Different customers are reporting related points, whether or not that be in utilizing techniques like Ultimate Fantasy 14’s recruitment codes or placing out normal inquiries to deliver gamers into their free firms. Reddit consumer misterpinksaysthings states {that a} buddy was banned for 2 days after itemizing his recruitment code within the in-game chat. Twitter consumer @BishamonVeena, in the meantime, responded to the official FF14 account with one other instance of somebody being banned for utilizing Xbox’s Trying For Group characteristic. This put up doesn’t even use the complete time period “free firm,” as a substitute utilizing the abbreviation “FC.”
The entire state of affairs is a messy instance of how automated moderation can backfire. Regardless of the Xbox system flagged right here is clearly lacking the context of what’s a really regular Ultimate Fantasy 14 interplay. Now, after a decade of ready for the MMO to come back to the platform, Xbox gamers are having to seek out methods to speak round years of established terminology simply to have the ability to expertise the sport as meant. However hey, at the very least they received that basically aesthetic Ultimate Fantasy 14 Xbox Collection X system…that doesn’t work.
We’ve reached out to Xbox for remark and can replace the story if we hear again.
