Quote Originally Posted by Ashua View Post
And the proof is in the pudding. You can see it going on in games that have parsing so I am not sure why people are going on about how its just anecdotal evidence when the entirety of the other communities are so toxic that its a internet meme in gaming circles.
It's not unusual to see communities pat themselves on the back for how great they are and how so and so community is awful because its not them, usually their direct competition (no one is like "man I love FFXIV's community, I really hated it on neopets.. ugh they're so toxic!" lol).

I tend to "I dont believe you" to any sort of tribalism, at least until a slew of large data statistics are flown around. It happens all over the place, as well it gets worse because it is also popular to hate on the big/popular fish (which WoW is both of) - so I generally take all WoW bashing with a mountain of salt, I also used to play it personally quite a bit (total time and length of range) and while yes there were rude people (just like in FFXIV) my experience wasn't marred by them (although I don't consider tips/pointing out flaws as harassment, at least depending on wording).

I haven't played recently though, and of course my experience is also "anecdotal", I'm saying it to point out just because a few people had a bad time with Y doesn't mean all of experiences of Y are the same.