The decline of the community

[Puremallace]

lol uhhh the same community you are lawding in these magical times you speak of is the same one that Square Enix had to issue some of the most restrictive community measures in MMO history to control. Prior to those restrictions FF14 community was pretty famous for some wild stuff. It was so bad that they were going to be forced to change the rating of the game lol

[Shin96]

This filth must be eradicated from the game.

It is not in the game and eradicating it would be a worthless pursuit. There is no way you can control people to such an extend unless you monitor their computer, in which case that's illegal and Yoshi P acknowledged that.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

For me personally the Problems are as follows: If you do not have all, or at least some, Savagesbosses down people look at you and call you a bad player/ noob, whatever. Witch results in them not giving you any attention. Sadly, a lot of people tend to buy themselves kills now to not "suffer" from this and get the attention they desire.

Others simply stop caring about others, or more specificly, stop caring about what they say cause they will only say bad things about/have a bad opinion about "you" anyway--> at least in "your" head. Witch then results in them distancing from others, not answering questions, not noticing you approaching them even if you have friendly intentions. They basically become what they tried to avoid.

At large, the Playerbase itself changed over the years and is driving itself apart. It is just like modern society: If people dont know you and you dont have a certain status, you get ignored, shunned, laughed at.
Humanity being human is the Problem. But those are just my observations. Dont take my words as rock solid fact.

This was a thing in 2.0. Again, nothing has changed, you are just more exposed to it.


Social media has grown exponentially since 2013 and 2014. Discord is used, which aggregates a lot of this, where before you had separate voice servers for every little group, and no real out of game text chat.

Social dynamics have changed a lot since the game launched. That's not the games fault. That's a societal thing.


Also the pandemic hasn't helped. People can't do anything so it comes out elsewhere.

[WoW]

So are forum trolls but they are eternal. What can you do.

There are no trolls on these forums. The mods are doing their job making sure they don't exist.

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

There are no trolls on these forums. The mods are doing their job making sure they don't exist.

Yeah I don't think so. Unfortunately.

[EnigmaticDodo]

probably a troll thread, because there seems to be a trend of shaming the RP community, erp or not.

but boohoo.

Allow me to play a song for you on the worlds smallest violin.

Don't engage w/ it if it doesn't interest you.

[WoW]

Yeah I don't think so. Unfortunately.

Did they ban you at one point or something? You must have done something wrong in that case. But that's not a reason to say they're not doing their job.

[Shinklet]

I swear, sometimes people in this forum just make up problems with the community in their mind then get mad at the community for it.

[Ardeth]

I swear, sometimes people in this forum just make up problems with the community in their mind then get mad at the community for it.

Bingo.

And for whatever reason RPers are their current targets.

They see them think

[rance-sama]

Bingo.

And for whatever reason RPers are their current targets.

They see them think

It's often the same group of people LARPing as some crusader being all "crush the RP degenerancy!!1 xDD"
They must be gluttons for punishment because everytime they get mocked and made fun of. Probably due some highschool trauma or something.