strange censorship in FFXIV JPN forum(long post)Follow

2. One tweet causes caos

Fist, @FF_XIV_JP post this tweet suddenly.

http://twitter.com/FF_XIV_JP/statuses/369834166890004480
*this tweet contains link to affiliate weblog that some people have doubt.

it says
'Metenyo-san, Thank you for your long support!
Please examine(or consider) when you have time after your first rush in FFXIV ARR!
Yoshi-P sometimes check your site when he is busy.'

I have to give some annotation.
(and I don't know 'examine/consider' means what for sure even now. maybe 'please restart'...)

This comment is official, or personal repliy to the popular affiliate weblog called 'Metenyo'.
Metenyo said he will quite the site, not being enough profit compared with comsuming work,
and want to focus on just playing FFXIV.
@FF_XIV_JP raised link, and said hi to the fansite for the first time as official account,
it will happen...but this tweet sounds strange for some people.

Metenyo was known as iｌｌegal copy or selection site of 2ch's FFXI/FFXIV board,
called 'Nejitsu'(netgame on the spot broadcast board).
so 'Yoshi-P check your site when he is busy' means
'Yoshi-P check your site for glance when he was too busy to read Nejitsu directly.'

People replied 'this site is not adequate for the first FFXIV official reccomend site...''SE, please be careful'
in several hours, after getting some doubt, they hide replies to this comment.

Some people post their question about this tweet on FFXIV beta forum, but moderator wiped relevant thread instantly.
This was really unusual action. no warning, no explanation, no thread close---they did just wipe all with no traces and log.
After 3 thread wiped, they started ban people who post about this topic.
At the last moment of cleanup, they banned people of most polite and consistent post.

Now people in FFXIV beta JPN forum get understand that----some words may work as suicidal instant-kill action.

3. Why people have doubt about that site?----#1 doubt about copy-affiliate site

One of problems is that Metenyo is known as iｌｌegal copy or selection site of 2ch's FFXI/XIV board,
called 'Nejitsu'(netgame on the spot broadcast board).
Nejitsu people hate Metenyo's plagiarism without notice and arbitrary modification.
They often write'Mete-kin'(Metenyo, reproduction prohibited!) in their thread or pict,
but Metenyo ignored that for a long time.

Another problem about Nejitsu' copy-affilate site is to the FFXI's past.
One copy-affilate site raise spiteful post modificated from Nejitsu's theread reported Vana Feta 2012.
People delightfully reported original meal sold in this event(based on FFXI's in-game recipe, Dhalmel Stew made from camel meat!) ,
but copy-affilate site stealed some post and titled 'tricky expensive meal in vana festa 2012 and its poor contains'.
From this trouble, some of MMO-FF fan start to doubt that copy-affiliate site do anything---
even in outrageous way---for getting mega-view.

Why did @FF_XIV_JP thank copy-affiliate site as if 'their first recommend fansite'?
Instead of other great site contains original article and their own forum?
We know that Yoshi-P reads 2ch and Nejitsu, like to quote some Nejitsu-meme in his game(JPN ver. you know).
But there is no reason why @FF_XIV_JP thank copy-affiliate site.

*On the other side, some people hate 2ch itself. They don't like 2ch-copy-affiliate weblog either.

4. Why people have doubt about that site?----#2 officiale rule about NDA and data mining

Foxclon(Toshio Murouchi, one of FFXIV community rep staff) explained data mining is prohibit in FFXIV.
He boldly warned that post lead(contains link or hint) peple to data mining information causes ban.
About NDA matter, it is under the same strict rule.

But, this time, @FF_XIV_JP lead follower to Metenyo contains NDA breaking/data mining information with link.
Some people point this inconsistency by their replies.
Metenyo-fan say he had removed NDA breaking/data mining information from his site, but it remains till now.

How can @FF_XIV_JP thank and suggest restart that NDA breaking site?
With keeping articles that they ask wipe from their site?

In fact, main problem of copy-affiliate weblog is this evasion of responsibility.
They reproduce articles from other site, and once articles cause some trouble, answer like this
'Duties or responsibilities belong to someone who post in original site, I just reproduce that.'
Hiroyuki(Hiroyuki Nishimura, known as 2ch founder, special guest of FFXIV liveletter in niconico)
warned this point in the past.

5.
That is all of my story.
In new official FFXIV forum, you can see JPN forum people delightfully talking.
But, please know that some people are enough scared at 'hidden rule' to say nothing.

Thank you for reading such long post!

Basically something about a website that posted some information and people were talking about it on Twitter and on the Beta forums and the moderators deleted it and then started banning people who started talking about it. It sounds like there was a website involved that was stealing someone else's work and posting it for their own and Square Enix considered them an affiliate "fan site." So when people started talking about it, people started getting banned. o_o

He also is warning us to be careful to follow the rules in the official forums because they are banning in a heart beat. o_o

I think there is something in there about posting links to other sites on the forums can get you banned from the Official Forums. Ahhh. Well, I've decided to not use the Official forums. It is nuts over there.

While i dont at all agree with banning people over pointing out that information was directly taken from another website and put on an "official" fansite, it's something that happens all the time and people really shouldnt get upset about it.

If you thought all the information on spells, abilities and what not on for instance Final Fantasy XI found on, just to name a few, ZAM here, FFXIclopedia or even the BGwiki werent all direct copies of each other, then you must be pretty naive. Someone would find something out, and would post it on for instance one of those websites, if not a japanese website, and other users would take that information and paste it on the other websites till they're all generally saying the same thing.

I'm sorry you did a lot of hard work for some exclusive information, and i'm sorry you and your friends got punished for breaking the NDA and the "official" fansite you mentioned did not, but these things happen. You're just going to have to move on and know that SE favors some websites over others and overlooks whatever bad things they do a little more often than for a small website.

Its about money. Money, cheese, cheddar . Money makes the world go round.

Yeah I was really surprised to see them still waving an NDA around when the game hit open beta.

Theoretically, that's the time you WANT people showcasing your game to other people. Although with error 3102 and 90k running the table, maybe not.

I am really curious why my last two Game Informers I have read religiously while on the toilet are suspiciously lacking any information about FFXIV:ARR...

Thanks for taking the time to post and talk about this here. There's a lot of information and it must not have been easy to translate it all into English.

SE is a large company that's split into various interests. Sometimes different departments will impose inconsistent policies since each day-to-day incident may invoke a different concern among the various department heads. So, the legal department might have a different understanding of the implications of one user's actions than the developers, or the publishers, or the community administrators do, making SE's reaction as a whole seem schizophrenic.