There is indeed a large amount of crappy players, but the crappy players tend to be people who just want to be carried (and would probably be better off just watching someone streaming the game than actually playing it) and get some twisted sense of accomplishment by beating other carries to their goals.
If you go into FFXIV with the intent of having fun, you stay off the official forums and stay off all the unofficial sites (eg reddit/4chan 2ch (jp.)) Because that's when you learn about all the horrible behavior. I'm surprised someone didn't write a sitcom based on crappy MMO players.
