Back in the day when I still played FFXI we'd occasionally get people logging into the game who also played WoW who would crap on XI in shout chat. They would also do so on the XI forums. You'd also get WoW players who would actually be those players that complain about everything while in XI and not understand some things the XI community did as in player etiquette ect. A lot of people moved from XI to XIV and some still play both. Even back in 2.0 on some servers you'd get WoW players in dungeons and take offense at people giving advice on how to play certain rolls like tank mostly due to how they work differently here than in WoW. There was for a time a part of the WoW community who would go down the whole oh well FFXI is just trying to copy WoW line of thought even though XI was out two years before WoW started.
Obviously some things are different between XIV and WoW and not everyone who plays XIV played or plays XI. But just like loldrg and calling Lalafells potatoes are persistent in XIV the "ugh WoW players are the worst" mentality comes from years of it being a thing from XI. So, it could be seen as an old feud between two families where it's been going on for so long the newer people brought in don't understand it.
Seeing hate toward "refugees from other MMOs?"
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06-25-2021, 10:47 PMSannaR
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06-26-2021, 03:05 AMElciaDeiLinus
Guess I'm a WoW refugee (when I first tried the game in 2015 I didn't play long- I truly came over parttime late in Stormblood).
I die a lot without the DBM warnings and all the mods that tell me where to stand so I don't really have to think, especially mechanics that I'm less clear on or things with boss telegraphs rather than ground ones. In WoW, I would always watch a video before I do a dungeon so I could memorize the mechanics, since it's expected that you know every piece of content inside and out before it releases... but I was enjoying FFXIV story and really don't want to tarnish my first experience with each dungeon by doing that.
Really pleased to find that if I fail a mechanic, there's no instant quit, not raging, no telling people to go kill themselves, no party disbanding blow ups. Since I started FFXIV- I have finished 100% of the duty finder activities, and in almost all of them, with the exact same people I started with, even in groups with some wipes. I was nervous at first going into new content without knowing it inside and out, thinking I'd probably get kicked like I would in WoW- yet I've been kicked 0 times, and it's insane, absolutely abnormal in MMOs. In turn, when I know a fight now, and someone else fails, it makes me want to help them.
I'm sure there's gonna be some who are wary of WoW players- as a WoW player myself since Vanilla, I am far more worried about wow refugees BECAUSE I know a lot of them and how they behave, so I really hope that those who come over abandon the way they treat people on WoW. -
06-26-2021, 03:17 AMY2K21I got one about OSRS one time -- I think it basically varies around the popular games for the time in that genre.Quote:
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06-26-2021, 10:55 AMkaynide
Way late to the party, but @OP it just boils down to some Karens who get upset that their little oasis isn’t theirs any more.
The same attitude where “Your kid can’t practice piano, MY KID is the piano player!” Or “how dare you buy a Tesla! I bought one first and now you’re just trying to take away spotlight!”
As with any crazy animal encountered in the wild, the best policy is to back away slowly. And wash your hands. Maybe spray it with water. -
06-26-2021, 12:09 PMVahlnirTypically a person wants to make themselves look bigger than they are and make a lot of noise. Technically, they are doing these things. :pQuote:
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06-26-2021, 12:21 PMVirusOnline:|Quote:
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>:|
I am part crazy animal, I'll have you know.
On a more serious note OP, keep playing. People always want a boogeyman.
What's probably more on the mind of those spewing such nonsense is the culture clash, the fear of change, and rumors of WoW's toxicity (I mean let's be honest tho lol, those mythic dungeons can get spicey).