To those that say FF14 is not a big dog in MMO's

[ZedxKayn]

What is this acronym?
GCBTW?

Great community by the way, commonly used to take the piss on people who praise XIV's community for being oh so great and toxicity-free while being perfect examples of passive aggressive toxicity themselves.

Personally when I have seen people get a bad response to not liking the story it's because that person said they don't enjoy any of the story and then reveal they actively avoided experiencing it since very early game.

I'm fine with people not enjoying the story and avoiding taking notice of it. But I'm not fine with someone saying something like the ShB story sucks when they skipped every cutscene and read no dialogue since ARR. This is like saying season five of a tv series is bad even though you only watched some of season one. If a story didn't grab you in the beginning then say that instead of saying the entire thing is terrible. You can't know it's all terrible if you deliberately avoided experiencing most of it.

I'm also not fine with people who want the story to no longer be a core feature of the game. If the idea of a story having a major role in a game bothers someone to the point that they think it should take a backseat or be removed then they should go play something else. If FFXIV no longer had story as a major feature then the game would become totally different. If someone wants to play a different game then they should go play a different game.

Most people are fine with others enjoying different things about the game as long as they do so without being snarky about it.

Something I see way too much is when people are asking about story skips for themselves or someone else, you will always have several people saying that if they don't care about the story, they should play another game, or that by allowing their friends to get a story skip, they're gonna ruin their experience.