I've been playing this game for 3 years, and only twice I remember being the victim of toxic players. Those 2 times playes banded together to mock my playstyle and insult me, and tell me to uninstall the game. One time was in thornmarch hard, I was the offtank with no tank stance, the main tank died and I didn't notice and didn't pick aggro, so the moogles killed everyone and we wiped. I was having a really bad day, everyone put the blame on me and mocked me. I felt really sad, put the loudest ones on blacklist and that was that. Another time, I was a white mage farming antitower for the relic. I only did holy and assize, doing maximum damage and no one died ever. I had everything in control. But the tank thought me letting him on 20% health without heals (because I was in control and knew he wouldn't die) was a crime and banded together with the friend he queued with and said how I was a terrible healer, and should uninstall the game, among other ridicule. I just blacklisted and went on with my day.


Those were the only 2 times in 3 years I was a victim of toxicity. On FCs there were annoying people and petty fc drama but this exists in any game. In general I find this community to be very friendly and helpful, I don't understand how some pepole claim it's worse than wow... I've seen people claim ffxiv has the most toxic community of any online game. This is insane, it's like people are desperate to put flaws on this game. And no, talking behind people's back and being passive aggressive is not the same as people attacking / kicking newbies from dungeons, being overtly toxic and saying racist and homophobic slurs. One is actually worse than the other, even if both are bad.