Thank You Community

I know this community is not perfect, but it is the best I have EVER played with. I understand sometimes hunts get pulled early, I understand that some people watch cut scenes, and others go really fast. My personal experience is that I have received more kindness, patience and understanding in FF XIV than in any other game I have ever played and it is by a large margin. I have been playing since UO and have played every major game since. I just wanted to take the time to say a great big THANK YOU>

You're welcome sweetie.

You're welcome. :D

Let me share 3 acts of real kindness from strangers. I love the story, I was doing Praetorium for the first time and wanted to watch the cut scenes. I wanted to watch them as the events unfolded because it was the big finish. I was getting some pressure from others to watch them later. A female extremely competent Paladin who looked incredibly badass, stood up to people admonishing them "you were new once too" then waited for me, to show me the way, Gave some instructions that made things very comfortable for me. ALL CLASS. Another time doing the Navel on Hard with my WHM the BLM weapon dropped and the BLM asked if I needed it, I said I didn't think I was going to do the relic on my and BLM said NP I'll pass for you. I was offering an overpayment for a meld in Limsa Lominsa, a person came up and told they would do it, refused payment, told me to make them a friend and if I had questions about anything to just ask...WOW I have and she is always accommodating. Exodus FWIW

I love you guys too!

And I always wait first timers watch cutscene. It's called cortesy.

Who plays a FF game without watching CS?

It's a good community overall. Like with any community that is large, there will be various perspectives, goals and drivers but I'd say the vast majority of interactions in this game are very positive even if perspectives are different.

The other day I was standing around in Limsa waiting for a duty to pop, and a random guy came up and traded me a minion. It turned out to be one I already had, but it was still a neat thing. I couldn't find the guy to give it back and my FC mates suggested just paying it forward. So I'll probably do that.

I was hunting my B mark when I stumbled upon an A mark with another person. I suggested we'd team up and we did along with his friends. We took that sucker down!
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Originally Posted by Magusrex

Let me share 3 acts of real kindness from strangers. *snip for length*

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This is really awesome! Glad to see there are others out there like this, because if you read the forums too often (like I do), you start to lose faith...

My personal experience has been far from great, or decent, but glad OP is enjoying himself.

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Originally Posted by JayCommon

This is really awesome! Glad to see there are others out there like this, because if you read the forums too often (like I do), you start to lose faith...

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Like you, I lose quite a bit of faith in the overall community by reading the forums as frequently as I do, but like the OP, on my server I've had nothing but a 99% wonderful experience since my first day logging in almost a year ago. Easily the best MMO community I've ever had the opportunity to play a game with; especially with the good people in Adamantoise :)

I will admit, I am a glass half full guy. I choose to live that way, I try to provide that example for my daughter. Life is what you choose to make of it. I think the bonus they give for having a new player in a duty is genius. I have been grinding a bit, I am immediately happy when I see the bonus pop up and I try to pay the kindness I have received forward. Even when rushed by some people early in the game, I understood that their time is every bit as valuable as mine and politely asked for patience rather than responding rudely, I have always gotten a positive response. I have not been griefed even once in this game. UO, EQ, EQ2, AC1, AC2 WoW, DDO Neverwinter, and many more I can't say the same.

How do you give someone a thumbs up on post? Must have been a post count thing because now I can :)

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Originally Posted by CodeCass

Like you, I lose quite a bit of faith in the overall community by reading the forums as frequently as I do, but like the OP, on my server I've had nothing but a 99% wonderful experience since my first day logging in almost a year ago. Easily the best MMO community I've ever had the opportunity to play a game with; especially with the good people in Adamantoise :)

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Agreed. Goblin is a pretty small community in respect to some of the other larger servers, but when new content patches drop we are bustling again. I've played since 2.0 early access and I've had many more good experiences on my server than bad. I think I only ever blacklisted one legit (non-RMT) person on my server, and after a few months I ended up in a PF with him and un-BL him to give him another chance, and he actually wasn't too bad of a guy. Must have had a bad day I guess lol.

It seems the random DF is largely the culprit for the bad behavior, but I have really not encountered it very often. And the times I do, I just choose to not engage in the bickering. I would much rather enjoy the time I get to spend with the game, rather than complain about someone picking up 6 mobs instead of 8 :rolleyes:

And I appreciate you for appreciating me.

Anyone have any reason for this phenomenon here? In some of those other games general chat was often abusive, a lot of griefing, kill stealing, people would train mobs on you to keep you from gathering, public shaming over performance. I fave seen so little of that here. i think the mechanics help prevent much of that. The bonuses for grouping with first timers is great. Is the MMO community starting to evolve? or does this game just attract a more mature player because it requires a subscription and is not World of Warcraft? Whatever the reason I am incredibly happy I decided to play and I must credit the now shut down site of Massively for giving me the idea to try. They wrote a ton of very nice things about FFXIV and I am happy to say they were right about every single one of them. I hope they relaunch as MassivelyOP soon.

For the most part, S-E makes it easy for people to get along. The fact that there's a shared-tap system for mobs in this game goes a long way towards that. Groups are easy to find and are rewarding to participate in, even if you say nothing but just play your role. Mechanics in higher-end content are somewhat punishing but, critically, they're easy to explain and help people with. This game has some shortcomings in this area still -- the Hunt mechanics come to mind -- but altogether, seeing other players in the world is generally a very good thing.

When World of Warcraft's newest expansion released late last year, I couldn't stomach it for more than a month. No matter how much polish they put on it, there are some things that are fundamentally broken on the social level. There's a deeply-ingrained antipathy in it's very systems, from the way it still has an exclusive-tap system for mobs, to the artificial and narratively insipid "faction war" that deliberately sets the playerbase against itself, in a way that fuels full-on harassment at real-world community events.

Simply put, a massively multiplayer game should never, absolutely never lead one to feel that the existence of other people in the game world serves only as a nuisance.

World of Warcraft does that.

Final Fantasy XIV does not.

I agreed that the FFXIV community has been the best that I've experienced in an MMORPG. There are times when you get the odd bad experience but overall the community has been pleasant :).

I've been meeting a lot of rather disappointing people lately as I move into end game coil raiding... people who remind me to never have faith or hope in the human race (I'm trying to put it nicely here lol). But I've been in WoW, I've been all over Facebook, I've been on LoL, I've been in various other internet communities and I can say FFXIV is a lot better than what I've experienced in other places. I certainly can't expect perfection since humans aren't perfect but this game is something I can deal with while other communities I just NOPE out of.

FF14 online is open for everyone, but not everyone can play this game. FF fans normally who play this game, and most of them are not from LOL, DOTA 2 or WoW. WoW community is rotten and sarcasm is everywhere. This game is PVE base mostly, so no faction hatred.

Two days ago I've created a PF group for Ifrit X to farm pony. I've precised no bonus because of bad experiences. We are 7 in the group and a tank is missing. I receive a whisp from a tank who tells me he has bonus but knows the fight. I tell him it's difficult because in many cases people disband. Just after I ask him to wait. In group channel I ask people if they could accept a player with bonus and it was very nice to see people accept. We juste oneshoted it, tank received congrats ans advices from members, specially the other tank, and farm could begin. It was so cool tout play with these people ^^.

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Originally Posted by Mahri

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Simply put, a massively multiplayer game should never, absolutely never lead one to feel that the existence of other people in the game world serves only as a nuisance.

World of Warcraft does that.

Final Fantasy XIV does not.

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Very well said

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Originally Posted by Magusrex

I know this community is not perfect, but it is the best I have EVER played with. I understand sometimes hunts get pulled early, I understand that some people watch cut scenes, and others go really fast. My personal experience is that I have received more kindness, patience and understanding in FF XIV than in any other game I have ever played and it is by a large margin. I have been playing since UO and have played every major game since. I just wanted to take the time to say a great big THANK YOU>

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Reading this post makes me think I need o server transfer to Exodus!

I do what I can, but I constantly feel like I'm in a sceptic tank of bad atitude :/

Mind, I have realised, that the furher I get from progression and world firsts, the beter the community is. Maybe Ultros & Primal are filled with people who only care about world first, etc, even if they can't do it themselves. On Ultros, even easy content is listed as "Clear Experience Required" . . . which you then find out the PF was put up by a noob, who doesn't have clear exp. . . .wtf!?

/le sigh. I'm glad your experience is different han most of mine. I jus try and suround myself with like minded and helpful people. For he most part, it works out well.