The abuse problem in FFXIV subreddit - Balance Discord - people are being silenced

 

Recent sexual assault allegation:

FFXIV subreddit possibly burying a sexual assault allegation by one balance mentor against another balance mentor:

https://youtu.be/SDDEB9a_P-o

Abuse:

There is a decade long problem within the FFXIV elite community. This tumor has been festering for far too long. For those of you who are a part of the MMORPG community - you must have heard something about MethodJosh. One gamer abused his power and position to exploit people within the gaming community; for years. He left people scarred and extinguished potential. Things like these can easily malign a game’s reputation. I am aware that what I am going to talk about has been suppressed over the years. The balance employs a large number of people. Many of these people are not only mods across the many FFXIV related discords, but they also have a hand in moderating several FFXIV related websites and forums. They also seem to share the same interests…. If you catch my drift.
Few years ago the Reddit FFXIV discord lost its partnership due to NSFW images involving minors on their discord server. Yoshi himself addressed and warned people against such activities in the past, but he was referencing art… not reality. 

The FFXIV elite community is not fragmented like it is in World of Warcraft. We do not have an icy veins or wowhead; all we have is the balance discord. The balance discord literally gate keeps progress for almost all the content and if you want free guides then you must go to the balance discord. It does charge members a fee in return for higher ranks and the leader (goes by the name Sayaka, Oh’ No and many others) has the ultimate power. He is like a shapeshifting lizard overlord where he has numerous of characters and tends to change names and ownership all the time but you can tell it is the same person behind it all. In the past he has switched ranks around to his alts and other people he knows; but he very much owns the server and he is never afraid to say so.
The problem lies in the fact that this guy is a very nasty person. He used to have a loli channel where minors would be depicted in questionable ways. They also have discord servers on the side that simmer beneath the surface - but he is never afraid to bring this side of him to the forefront of the community. His behavior is not just limited to art or speech. He pressures other members into agreeing with things they want no part of. When this grimy shit eventually explodes which it will; the aftermath will destroy our game’s reputation – the game we love.
Here he is talking about watching porn near a 6 year old. They also talk about a discord member being 15 and so on:
https://youtu.be/MHNz7VSHRgw

Below are several videos of him where he constantly brings up sexual themes with people who are minors apparently as he refers to them as “pure”. You will see him repeatedly defend his loli channels and then constantly bring up the subject of pedophilia and “flat chested little guys”. Unfortunately, similar to MethodJosh he is surrounded by people who are not only loyal to him and help him make a butt load of money; they enable him to wield a great amount of power – many of them seem to share the same deplorable fetishes that he does. They will immediately ban people if their sexual gratification is not reciprocated. The mods will at one point mention how they are going to “discuss a matter” eventually to let pedophilia slide as it brings many viewers to their servers, on the other hand bans are immediately handed out to those who do not curb the line. It felt like they overpowered people in the discord and led them into sexual conversations. Tiffany Liz was a mod on the server and you can see Sayaka discuss these deplorable things with Tiffany Liz. Tiffany Liz is also the person responsible for managing the monk community. I have linked the videos below. 

In the past Sayaka may have deleted his username and passed his discord to his alt or friend accounts, but we need to stop this guy from pushing the game into a corner that WoW ended up in. He has a history of racism but he deleted all of it, you can still see him calling Germans pedos (projecting). Tons and tons of Islamophobia (deleted now). Things are nastier on the hidden servers but I no longer have access to them. A prior mod named Roxa Claire would throw N word around like it was nothing.I am being very light here - watch the clips for yourself. This is nowhere near the worst of thse disgusting clowns (no offense to clowns I actually like clowns). You can see Roxa Claire in these videos. There are many others but I would run out of time and space. Namely Sayaka, Lyra Rose, Kiri Kitone, Roxa Claire, Nethar, Rin, Tiffany Liz, Dook Prime, Ramza, Iluna Minori, Raid utility, Fliegard Lucard, Yukio Shirogane (guy who translates everything but is a very strong supporter and enabler on the ffxiv reddit discord). Eanae is actually the owner of the FFXIV subreddit and he owns a server where they coordinate which people to attack (evidence of it below). Strong network of disgusting people.

If all the discord servers are owned by a guy pretending to be four diferent people meanwhile soliciting all kinds of stuff from their members then yeah the opinion would be pretty homogenized across all the servers. And then well assume for a second that one of his server mods is also working for trust and safety department of discord itself then godamn it sure is a recipe for silent disaster (silent retaliation?). Sexually manipulating and grooming hundreds of people for your own sexual gratification and then screwing them up so bad in the head that they are driven to suicide (because they are unaware of how they were controlled and manipulated in the first place). Gaslighting them through an army of sockpuppets.

 

https://web.archive.org/web/20211018160007/https://twitter.com/SaltedLevity/status/1387993214112739330/photo/2

https://web.archive.org/web/20211018160008im_/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E0MkeNoXoAwvv07.jpg

Sayaka repeatedly admits that he wants to be the way he is, but he is afraid of losing sponsorship. They only deleted the channel because they were afraid of blow back from Patreon. The actions still continue however. See the videos for yourself; they are pretty boring and grimy so I apologize in advance. We have to save our game. We cannot let these people be the mascot for our community.

https://youtu.be/3Cgt7NAX_S0
https://youtu.be/Krcg-YSUvAs
https://youtu.be/Cw0gmDBKwD8
https://youtu.be/7lU8WXREM3k
https://youtu.be/r5BSXab-WA8
https://youtu.be/ehw_EwQiXbI
https://youtu.be/SbdvkDn46jI
https://youtu.be/pa4UdeskxaM
https://youtu.be/nPpWOdGl0TM
https://youtu.be/Ao1RnoEbKwA
https://youtu.be/Krcg-YSUvAs

Witchhunts against popular streamer:

This is a big one. Not only are these human piece of trash and garbage abusing people but they also are some of the most envious and miserable people on the planet. FFXIV’s streamer community had a very hard time taking off because they would constantly organize witchunts against popular streamer. Take Mr.Happy for example; they organized a witchhunt against him on the FFXIV subreddit (same mods on the discord servers). They tortured him to a point where he almost quit streaming. They even started a website called ucobsales.com to attack him further. These are the people who plaster their own names line after line on their balance and ffxiv subreddit discords because they are so desperate for clout and attention (probably so they have the power and influence to abuse people?); that they post their names on every single line. If they could get away with it there will just be their names and sexual requests and no guides or game info at all. So it makes sense that after all this work they do not get the clout or recognition and so they attack anyone who does (a streamer with actual charisma – MrHappy).

There was also a thing about death threats against the streamer lazypeon but people were smart enough to hide any traces so I won’t delve into that. There is also Tankmods who cycle through their alts on the discord server basically attacking other streamers like MTQcapture and ilya dalamiq. I am surprised they have not been sued yet. Any streamer who is not directly affiliated with the discord servers and subreddit will get attacked relentlessly. And an illusion of public opinion is passed off when it’s just the mod alts spreading these rumors and agreeing with themselves (meanwhile evading any witchhunt related ban because the rules they have are 100% there to only protect the abusers (themselves) and not the victims).

Prior to Asmongold's arrival DesperiusFFXIV was the one with highest views on FF videos. He too was banned from these servers under the "Do not spread misinformation" rule. But once again you have someone getting clout and these mods trying to sabotage them. You have people who gained notoriety by hiding the fact that it is not possible to build a good dps simulator for FFXIV let alone a dps meter (because of damage over time being hidden and gear data not being deciphered by these simulators); accusing content creators of misinformation.

Asmongold’s opinion on the witchhunts

https://youtu.be/DVzJB_QzNeM

Ilya talking about it directly but he is very afraid to take a stance (understandable)
https://youtu.be/E_aQNBq9P2g

Further proof of the gang's operations in this video and links (u/Eanae):

https://youtu.be/3OhLntfULTM

https://www.reddit.com/r/Asmongold/comments/ove7ie/the_asmon_effect_reflections_of_a_final_fantasy/

Not very unlikely for abuse allegations to get deleted on reddit and reappear in a different altered format now is it?
They go after "trouble individuals". What exactly is trouble you ask? well you already know the answer. Anyone who stands up to abuse. Anyone who is more popular than they are. It is a gang and it operates like one. They have a hitlist they are always working on.

Archive.ph/X0Gid

Fake accusation, an army of sock puppets and gas lighting:

So recently there have been some fake allegations popping up. Where the accuser is posting on an affiliated website and they shower the mods with compliments. Praise the server. Go into details complimenting them. The accusations themselves are basically there to create doubt because these allegations are completely meritless to anyone with common sense. They started doing this after I released this information. The target of these allegations is always a sockpuppet on discord that’s been around for few years and conveniently gets banned (deleted) after the gaslight accusations have been posted. A real insult to the intelligence of the community but it seems to be work here and there. A tell-tail sign is the amount of compliments and pats you will see towards the mods. These started popping up few months ago and I figured it is a type of damage control. These guys are used to doing stuff like this so it is probably not new to them. Some of these people have been around 20 years going back to FFXI. Yeah this stuff is not new. There are also videos like this so keep that in mind. The real stuff you can never talk about on reddit or the discord servers. You will have no chance against their gang.

Racism:

They used to run a nothing-held-back server on the side which was the official discord for the Gilgamesh server on Aether. Here the nword was thrown around casually. People like Locke Rockwell had no qualms about using these terms themselves. They would routinely coordinate witchhunts against players on Gilgamesh using this server and banned anyone who disagreed with them.  This was before novice network came into being. With the novice network in place they moved their operations into the game for a while and then just scattered towards the balance and reddit ffxiv discords. 

The solution and the conclusion:

Is it too much to ask for a peaceful, safe and fun gaming environment? What is so difficult about getting guides and game information without being abused? Why can't you just go to the novice network or discord and talk about a game; without a sexually depraved predator constantly barraging you with their fetishes and short comings.  Why do you have to deal with someone talking about your age or sex and trying to get something out of you. Why can't you have a discord server for information without the witchhunts. People say only the worst are drawn to these jobs given the nature but I disagree. I believe some people do have the right intentions in these roles (perhaps a small minority) and these people are the ones who should be in charge.

 FFXIV has always been a casual friendly toxicity free game. The raiding scene was not always competitive and back in the day people didn't care much for world firsts. Then a small minority of people started getting into it and started talking about it. The game's combat system is designed so that it shows the damage over time effects on a mob as one tick regardless of how many people have damage over time effects on the mob. And this lumping of dot damage in the combat log prevents any proper logging of damage done by members of a raid team - to prevent toxicity. These measures implemented by Yoshi the great to prevent toxicity did not stop these disgusting people from making half-ass fake dps simulators and passing them off as accurate dps meters. These meters were not even credible enough to be called a good simulator because even a simulator would require a person's gear to make a half-decent estimate of an individual's dps. 

 

They then proceeded to self-advertise and self-promote all over the game telling people to "post your logs" and "go to balance for education". Meanwhile just like a Harvey Weinstein they used power to groom and abuse people in these places where people came for education and damage enhancement. Several years later you see what that has led to - people wanting to suicide because they have no idea what is happening to them; they have been scarred so deeply.

People should make their own discord servers. The community should fragment. Warcraft has class discord servers (which still have problems unfortunately) that are a better alternative (not a perfect one). You can also host guides and all the info on websites and then post them as links on the discord server. They absolutely cannot hit you with a copyright strike because 99% of their content is straight ripped from FFXIV without Square Enix' permission. Square Enix allows this because they are not aware of the bullying just yet. One cease and desist and it will be history. One would think that these guys would be happy with their shoddy dps meters and self advertisements but I guess the revenue is not enough for these animals.

 

Discord is also a social communication software and actually it is very hard to copyright anything that has been posted on discord. You cannot really copy a recipe to swing your sword in real life and it is the same philosophy in text. These steps will prevent these abusers from having too much power and influence over their victims. Though it will take a long time because they have been around for more than two decades. Abusers never change, they only refrain for a while and then go right back to what they were doing before - it is in their nature.

They will ban and delete a sock puppet or two but nothing would ever change. I would tell you not give them your money, but if you are giving them money then you are more than likely a part of the problem and not a part of the solution. Nothing I say would mean anything to you because you are one of them. You are the abuser. FFXIV deserves better than to be sabotaged by a team of well coordinated highly toxic  and greedy passive aggressive pedos.