Originally Posted by
Pixela
Do you remember why XI players hated on WoW so long ago? let me tell you, because the toxic minority of players of that game went to every other mmorpg community and kept telling us our games were dying, causing trouble, turning an mmo they pay to play into a competition for world champion (when nobody else cares), saying our games were dying and trying to make us go play their game all the time. They turned the game from a game into a religion and wanted to convert the world, and so they became hated.
A large minority of XIV players do the same to every other mmorpg community but worse, which is why every other mmorpg community from star trek, eso, wow, new world, gw2, tera, b&s and ffxi hates them and by association their game. It's hilariously ironic that these players are desperate for us all to move to their game so they can be number one (they never will be btw, it's all gas lighting), but their own actions ensure we will never now do so and so the game will never grow beyond what it is. Which is the greatest pain to XIV players, because all they care about is being "number one" because all they ever do is talk about how many players they have (even though they know the numbers are bullshots).
XIV has taken the toxic hate crown from wow and wears it with pride, and is the most stinky community in the genre to everyone else bar none. They attack anyone that says anything bad about their game, from streamers to youtubers, they go on other fan reddit subs and steam forums and openly attack those games, they attack anyone that dares to say any cash shop additions are not fantastic (which is why you'll soon have gambling loot boxes) and pretty much turn developers into religious icons.
This is why near every other mmorpg community does not like the game, however for XI we funded the game entirely to be made and then we paid for ARR while it's players paid no sub. We took massive content droughts as our developers were pushed into making it and repairing it, we were treated as the cash cow that paid for your monstrosity to be birthed.
We have many valid reasons to dislike it.
This all aside from the fact as I said that' XIV is basically fortnite the mmorpg. It's extremely casual, has zero respect for it's world and shoves whatever nonsense in it other companies will allow, treats its players like walking ATMs and is nerfed harder every patch in order to appeal to a wider and wider audience of peons.