The "Wow Refugee's" impact on the FFXIV Community?

[Imuka]

And to fit in with the topic of this thread, the reasons I've seen WoW players give for not liking FFXIV tend to be about the longer GCD (which I personally prefer)

I believe this is caused by the way the Classes evolve, when a Player levels them.
We have the same Number of Skills like with Level 60, but now streched to Level 70 and ShB will strech that to 80.
This makes the leveling Process more and more boring over time and some Classes are even with Level 50 pretty boring and miss a lot of Skills to make them fun to play.
This can make a lot of Players feel bored, when they reach the end of ARR.

must have multiple clears, will check your score on third party websites. And if you dare wipe the abuse and insults start raining down.

This is exactly what we had with Zurvan Ex and Shinryu Ex.
I remember when some Players looked up the FFLogs Page of others or they needed to either Show a Zurvan/Shinryu Weapon as a proof or that they own Token of those Fights.
And the old FF14 Catchphrase of the Partyfinder "Fail = Kick + Blacklist".