Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[Starflake]

I feel sympathy for you OP. You are criticizing a legitimately concerning trend in this community and you get told lovers of dragon boys and hrothgar daddies that you need to fix the hate in your heart. This kind of highschool crap is so abundant in this community. If anything, it's more the immaturity of this community that is showing. Too immature to care about own performance and impact on quality of life of their fellow players. It's apathy because I know that if you put in a little bit of time in looking up guide videos for classed you play, you will manage just fine in most content. We don't see that though, do we. A lot of players with shocking performances in this game. The response you got by some people is so predictable at this point, it's actually kind of pathetic.

Maybe someone should give me a Snickers though, so I can also cure all that hate inside my heart lmao

[MagicAura]

I feel sympathy for you OP. You are criticizing a legitimately concerning trend in this community and you get told lovers of dragon boys and hrothgar daddies that you need to fix the hate in your heart. This kind of highschool crap is so abundant in this community. If anything, it's more the immaturity of this community that is showing. Too immature to care about own performance and impact on quality of life of their fellow players. It's apathy because I know that if you put in a little bit of time in looking up guide videos for classed you play, you will manage just fine in most content. We don't see that though, do we. A lot of players with shocking performances in this game. The response you got by some people is so predictable at this point, it's actually kind of pathetic.

Maybe someone should give me a Snickers though, so I can also cure all that hate inside my heart lmao

*gives Starflake a Snickers* (no I don't think you have hate in your heart)

You took the "cure the hate in your heart" comment out of context. It wasn't directed to the OP but rather to a toxic comment made by someone who comes across as arrogant and self-righteous. Which goes to show that the way one gives advice is as important as advice itself. Accepting criticism, even if it's constructive, is not easy in the best of cases. If someone has hundreds of hours invested into a game and someone else comes and tells them they are playing the wrong way, how do you think they'll feel? And what will their first reaction be?

Ultimately people should be fine if others reject help offers. It's a diverse community made of all sorts of individuals from different countries and different life experiences. Also trying to generalise and branding the entire community with various labels, isn't constructive and will never work. Diversity resists such branding. And diversity is power.

[Haruka_R]

I feel sympathy for you OP. You are criticizing a legitimately concerning trend in this community and you get told lovers of dragon boys and hrothgar daddies that you need to fix the hate in your heart. This kind of highschool crap is so abundant in this community. If anything, it's more the immaturity of this community that is showing. Too immature to care about own performance and impact on quality of life of their fellow players. It's apathy because I know that if you put in a little bit of time in looking up guide videos for classed you play, you will manage just fine in most content. We don't see that though, do we. A lot of players with shocking performances in this game. The response you got by some people is so predictable at this point, it's actually kind of pathetic.

That sums it up pretty well.