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

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Former wow players are not affecting this game in a negative way, i speak as a former wow player myself that came back to this game over half a year ago

I am also a former WoW player. Just because you, and I, are not toxic does not mean that there are not a lot of toxic players coming from WoW.gonna list them all.

The main reason the toxicity level is much lower here is because people simply will not tolerate it and the player base will take action and self police to stop this sort of thing, the last time i saw it was about two weeks ago.

It IS tolerated, even celebrated, in WoW. And the more toxic players a community has, the more likely it is that such behavior is tolerated. WoW's community has earned a reputation for being toxic. It's because of this reputation, combined with the sudden surge of WoW players coming to FFXIV, that people in this community are so concerned. It risks shifting the balance from "polite, decent, friendly" to toxic.

So we down the boss on the second try, one boss left and it is done. Shortly after the boss is downed vote kick pops up, reason harassment. The toxic player was kicked, so after half an hour in the run only one boss left he was booted and had to do another alliance raid from the beginning for his behaviour, so he lost half an hour of time over it.

Glad that this was the result. And so far I have not seen a marked increase in this type of behavior. But my DC seems to be one of the better ones in terms of quality of community (if the stories i read on the forums are anything to go by). But the concern is still there about a mass influx of WoW players. The friendly, helpful players, please do join us!

That is why toxic behaviour is more of a rare occurrence here and will continue to be. It will never stop completely, this again is true of any mmo. It is simply not tolerated here.

I definitely agree that it's less common here in FFXIV, and this is a large reason why some are concerned about the sudden influx of WoW players.