Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[Seddrinth]

[QUOTE=Hazama999;5448012]I can only speak from my experience, of course.

I don't personally talk much during roulettes, dungeons and whathaveyou... but in all 7 years of playing this game what stands out to me when it comes to negative interactions is passive-aggressiveness. It is as though passive-aggressiveness is the bread and butter of Duty Finder. It has been exceedingly rare for someone to be caustic in these instances of unpleasant player interactions. Nothing is ever really said "outright." I have hardly ever seen someone directly insult someone else during a DF run.

There are only statements with varying degrees of irony.[/QUOOTE]

That's because if you write something hostile you will get banned/suspended. So people have to express their displeasure more indirectly. Like if someone is dying to every mechanic, you can't just outright say "you suck" because u get reported so people will say something like "you're an amazing player." Or if you see someone doing 3k dps in level 80 gear, you can't say anything or you will get punished, so people will say "great job with dps!"