How much do FRIENDS make a difference with you?

[Skivvy]

I would even dare to say that the playerbase of other games are quite 'better'?

Same story in Guild Wars 2 which I play casually but still have social stuff in it.
Weird thing is people always say how toxic wow is and that XIV has the best community and is very social but for me it’s just the other way around.

I just recently went back to GW2 and am having a great time Finally picked up the expansions as well and so I have a ton to do.

Out of all the MMOs I've played, I've always felt that GW2 had the best community. I'm a PvE'r, and the most I've seen is the occasional frothing by someone at a Meta event, but even that is usually quite tame compared to XIV. Perhaps the PvP side is more flavorful, but that does tend to always be the case. But overall, I think that game does a lot better at fostering a community. With how the gameplay is set up, it makes it really easy to jump in and play with your fellow players and to help out with little effort.

Note for the people that take the exact words in the context:
I did quit XIV, I’m just subbed for my house. I do not consider renewing my sub the last day before my house gets demolished and logging back in the last day remaining of my sub to lengthen the demolish time in between my ‘freeze’ periods ‘actively playing the game’.
Though I really should stop this, I don’t want to support a full price sub MMO with a cash shop like a F2P MMO.

This is me as well D: I'm back to subbing for the house at this time, and each time I log in I'm tempted to just sell the damn thing. I've had a list of my furnishings that I want to sell for awhile - I should probably just bite that bullet and get it over with.

[Fhaerron]

I just recently went back to GW2 and am having a great time Finally picked up the expansions as well and so I have a ton to do.

Out of all the MMOs I've played, I've always felt that GW2 had the best community. I'm a PvE'r, and the most I've seen is the occasional frothing by someone at a Meta event, but even that is usually quite tame compared to XIV. Perhaps the PvP side is more flavorful, but that does tend to always be the case. But overall, I think that game does a lot better at fostering a community. With how the gameplay is set up, it makes it really easy to jump in and play with your fellow players and to help out with little effort.

Guild Wars 2 IS a better community. There's so much friendliness and help you get as a 'stranger'. As I said above, I play GW2 casually so I don't have an army of friends like I have on WoW but the amount of help I receive is the same.
On GW2 random strangers get out of their way to help you, there's always people around even in the low level zones.
When I'm having a sad day and feel lonely I can just hop on GW2 and there's people around to chat with, most randoms are just super friendly there and most likely also making new friends in the process.



In XIV it's the total opposite. For me at least.