WoW this, WoW that: Why are FFXIV forum users so obsessed with WoW refugees?

[Sasarayu]

The toxicity in WoW is usually just rudeness in general, a lot of the time by younger people.

The toxicity in FFXIV on the other hand is malignant with deliberate precision and the most toxic players are the ones I label "confucianists" based on their belief in a fixed social hierarchy that must not be upset. If you don't prostrate yourself before these self proclaimed mentors with Jesus complex you will know true toxicity, believe me.

WoW doesn't even have anything remotely similar to the confucianists and their toxicity.

One reason the FFXIV community is so offended by WoW refugees is because of the pseudo elitist pedantery described above with first time MMO players or theoretically minded people with the charisma of dried up wallpaper glue deluding themselves they are doing something highly advanced and refined that requires years of training and that they are in fact high generals moving pieces on a strategic map while entertained by the finest geishas. The WoW hate becomes a sort of self glorifying xenophobia which is in fact just ignorance.