How did the community become this toxic?

[Capita]

WoW changed the genre, and the players changed with it. Turns out that if you build a game tailored to greedy and selfish mainstream gamers, your community will become filled with greedy and selfish mainstream gamers. Profit over community, as it were.

I find it so stupid that FF players love to keep blaming WoW. I take it most of you haven't been exposed to anything other than FF and WoW, because WoW didn't start any of this. If you guys have ever played EQ, RO, UO, etc. you'd realize that the communities of each are FILLED with terrible selfish people. But you guys are looking through your rose-tinted FF glasses and biased anti-WoW rage that you seem to think only WoW had selfish people.

Here's a shocker: FFXI had some crappy, selfish people too! Yep. Didn't see that coming, did you? No way in hell I was gonna let someone else tag that NM for that expensive item before me, even if he's been there hours before I got there. Oh, FFXI had the best community? Hell no. FFXI, at least if you were in the hardcore HNM scene, was extremely cutthroat. And people weren't nearly as forgiving with new players, or players who weren't playing the ideal way.

The whole close-knit thing in FFXI due to forced grouping? Yeah, that was nice. Except it also made for the absolute biggest drama I've ever seen in an MMO. So much drama. Logging on was like watching a soap opera, and you'd even get the latest drama from other servers. "Did you hear about Randomnoob? I hear he got kicked from UberSauce LS, and his character was being played by someone else! Can you believe it??" WHO CARES!? Best community? Not even close. I'd give that award to RO. I'd rank FFXI's community next to EQ and WoW's.

I met some of the most incredible people on WoW, and some bad ones. I can say the same for any other game I've played. Seriously, think before you make such nonsensical comments.