FFXIV and SqEnix vs WoW and Blizzard - My Perspective

[Vickii]

FF14 while appearing friendly on the outside, tends to be way more clickish than any other MMO I've played.

Yeah but we don’t joke about sexual assault in general chat.

People often compare the communities and say ‘wow the friendly FF14 community’ when someone is a bit snarky...

But there’s no comparison between the two. Wow is the absolute gutter of the internet. You can’t compare them in terms of communities. One is a normal community full of everyday people and one is pewdiepies comment section.

Lol kek manfreds wife raped me n00b scrub gtfo lol ded.. I mean it’s like what you expect from 12 year old boys but they’re 40 year old men.

[Zer0]

Yeah but we don’t joke about sexual assault in general chat.

People often compare the communities and say ‘wow the friendly FF14 community’ when someone is a bit snarky...

But there’s no comparison between the two. Wow is the absolute gutter of the internet. You can’t compare them in terms of communities. One is a normal community full of everyday people and one is pewdiepies comment section.

Lol kek manfreds wife raped me n00b scrub gtfo lol ded.. I mean it’s like what you expect from 12 year old boys but they’re 40 year old men.

When did I ever say it was? You can turn off that chat. And I've seen similar here in FF14. But most people in WoW have turned off all forms of world chat 10 years ago. But at least their chat is active. Meanwhile when comparing guilds to free companies, I've felt more connected within WoW guilds than I ever had in Free Companies. Purely because they're ALWAYS clickish. Most FC's I've been in there is a group of people that only talk in their own internal linkshell. You never hear anything being talked about in FC chat. They're in their own little clicks that make you question why they're even in the FC to begin with. And you can't get to know them because they're in content a new player won't unlock for a few months. By that time most have quit to go to other FC's to repeat the process of joining a click Linkshell and never talking in FC chat.

A game being not-negative doesn't mean it's positive either.

[Mavrias]

Yeah but we don’t joke about sexual assault in general chat.

People often compare the communities and say ‘wow the friendly FF14 community’ when someone is a bit snarky...

But there’s no comparison between the two. Wow is the absolute gutter of the internet. You can’t compare them in terms of communities. One is a normal community full of everyday people and one is pewdiepies comment section.

Lol kek manfreds wife raped me n00b scrub gtfo lol ded.. I mean it’s like what you expect from 12 year old boys but they’re 40 year old men.

*looks at the multiple posts this week about homophobic and racist slurs being spammed in novice networks*