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A lot of FFXIV players obsess over WoW to an unhealthily excessive degree, even though it should be almost completely irrelevant to their ability to enjoy this game.

It's most common among people that migrated from WoW to this game a long time ago; It's kind of like when someone still has feelings for an ex that they have trouble admitting to, and compensate by disparaging their ex or trying to make them jealous.

It materializes in a lot of extremely negative ways in the FFXIV community, including people using 'WoW refugee' as an insult, or attacking people unprovoked for mentioning coming from / playing WoW.

I've seen sprouts harassed straight off of the game by the 'anti-wow' crowd, including some personal friends who were so turned off by the way they were treated in the Novice Network that they dropped the game.