I'm Excited to Login Today.

[SelahWavedancer]

I mean if you like dailies and RNG grinds then sure. I have been playing FF14 for a little bit and have not been told to go kill myself so far so that is definitely an improvement.

Have a suspicion that this was a sarcastic comment given how absolutely toxic that community is right now

[MPK]

Have a suspicion that this was a sarcastic comment given how absolutely toxic that community is right now

FFXIV is actually a lot more toxic. People here are next level passive aggressive. Toxic positivity is unironically worse than regular toxicity. It's about LoL level.

[Ayuhra]

Have a suspicion that this was a sarcastic comment given how absolutely toxic that community is right now

They're both toxic communities at times. I have experienced more intense toxicity in FFXIV and more frequent toxicity in WoW but WoW's brand is almost just juvenile white noise at this point.

[Sotaris]

I have been playing FF14 for a little bit and have not been told to go kill myself so far so that is definitely an improvement.

This doesn't happen in WoW either. You're using some bad apples to apply whole community. When we use same logic on this community you have a problem with it.

That's a contradiction.

It may have happened in WoW, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the whole community.

That's what I ... said? Unless you're just being pedantic about it.

[linayar]

This doesn't happen in WoW either. You're using some bad apples to apply whole community.

That's a contradiction.

It may have happened in WoW, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the whole community.

[MilkieTea]

This doesn't happen in WoW either. You're using some bad apples to apply whole community. When we use same logic on this community you have a problem with it.

Ehhh... both my boyfriend and his mom played WoW. His mom has developing mobility issues due to MS and a stroke, and had to stop because she was progressively finding it harder to play the classes she loved while being consistently booted out, cursed out, called the f-slur, etc etc.

And my boyfriend only recently stopped playing and has had to literally palate cleanse because he was an active participant in WoW-toxicity.

HOWEVER, this isn’t to say XIV players are peaches and cream - but I highly doubt his mother will experience what she did on WoW in XIV, and he will have to learn either the easy way or the hard way that his brand of toxic-gamer language won’t be acceptable ingame (we even had a convo where I told him there’s going to be zero sympathy from me if he somehow manages to get banned, and that I will in fact laugh in his face.) XIV toxicity is typically hidden behind Savage and Ultimate content, with the way XIV’s content is so easy to play through that pugging doesnt require much talking unless someone’s massively messing up.

[Ayuhra]

That's a contradiction.

It may have happened in WoW, but it doesn't necessarily reflect the whole community.

it doesn't reflect the community at all.

I am one person. A sample size of one. So obviously my experiences =/= everyone else's but fwiw

I think I've been told to off myself once in my entire time playing which is since Burning Crusade. Overwhelming majority of the time if you annoy someone they say nothing. Otherwise they might /rude or /spit. That's it.

[SelahWavedancer]

FFXIV is actually a lot more toxic. People here are next level passive aggressive. Toxic positivity is unironically worse than regular toxicity. It's about LoL level.

I stand corrected. Regardless, it's been a nice change of pace because I can actually engage with the community in-game versus everything spiraling into a full on complain fest and everyone being miserable we'll have to see how this plays out over time.

[Jojoya]

Why is that remarkable? Because I'm a WoW refugee and today was patch day. We finally received the long awaited 9.1 with all the new cinematics, raid, dungeon, season, story, zone, ect. ect. Yet, despite having put in 14+ years to that game and have long since considered it my home I find my sub over there still inactive and instead I was thinking all day at work how I was excited to get home and login to FF14 today. Continuing my journey into Eorzea, unraveling the story, having fun, being engaged with the community. This is the first time I've chosen another game over a new WoW patch. It's bittersweet.

Hopefully this is the beginning of another 14 years. Cheers!

Glad you're having a good time here. Don't be afraid to go back and visit WoW when you feel the need for a break or run out of things you want to do here.

Here's to hoping that WoW devs finally see the light and go back to making a game that is fun, not a time sink, so players like you who still feel an attachment can take joy in playing again.

Personally, the last shreds of my interest in WoW turned to ash watching Teldrassil burn. I got tired of a prolonged faction conflict that kept getting hamfisted into the story when it should have died at the end of Wrath and definitely by the end of MoP.

[Kynetik]

I’m right there with ya! Super excited to log in and enjoy my time in FF14 after migrating from WoW.