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[SturmChurro]

I can count on several hands the amount of toxic interactions I've witnessed in FFXIV.

[MPK]

I can count on several hands the amount of toxic interactions I've witnessed in FFXIV.

This tbh. Also don't bother telling healers to dps even though you're at full hp with mitigations popped on a small group. They'll tell you that you don't pay their subs.

[Puremallace]

I can count on several hands the amount of toxic interactions I've witnessed in FFXIV.

Want an example of passive aggressive FF14 toxicity?

1. I shouted in Limsa yesterday that I was looking for a bard who was playing to entertain me.
2. I was sitting on the ground by the Aetheryte in the dps queue leveling my summoner
3. 3 people randomly showed up with frog mask on around me.
4. They begin to play their guitars in a rough death metal for 15 minutes straight until my queue popped.

Trust me it does exist in FF14 but it is FAR FAR more passive aggressive.

[Sotaris]

Want an example of passive aggressive FF14 toxicity?

1. I shouted in Limsa yesterday that I was looking for a bard who was playing to entertain me.
2. I was sitting on the ground by the Aetheryte in the dps queue leveling my summoner
3. 3 people randomly showed up with frog mask on around me.
4. They begin to play their guitars in a rough death metal for 15 minutes straight until my queue popped.

Trust me it does exist in FF14 but it is FAR FAR more passive aggressive.

In what world would that be considered passive aggressive?

[Puremallace]

In what world would that be considered passive aggressive?

In the example above your post the players thought I was ordering a bard to entertain me so they came to troll me. What I was asking was are there any bards playing. They were not playing some cute guitar solo but running hands across the keyboard for 15 minutes straight to annoy so I had to turn off my sound.

That is FF14 passive toxicity.

[Fyrebrand]

the players thought I was ordering a bard to entertain me so they came to troll me. What I was asking was are there any bards playing. They were not playing some cute guitar solo but running hands across the keyboard for 15 minutes straight to annoy so I had to turn off my sound.

That is FF14 passive toxicity.

I'm sorry, but what you're describing is not toxicity at all. It was just some folks pulling a harmless prank who obviously thought their antics were funnier than you did. If they stalked you around the game, verbally harassed you, or something along those lines, then it would be more serious. But it sounds like all they did was briefly toot on some virtual instruments, which you can easily mute or else simply move away out of their sound range. And like you said, you weren't trying to accomplish something in game that they were interfering with, you were literally just choosing to wait around there for 15 minutes while this went on.

I don't think we should pretend all FFXIV players are perfect little angels, but if the topic of toxicity comes up and this is the kind of situation that comes to your mind, I don't even know what to say. I guess I can offer my sympathies to whatever extent this incident is still bothering you, but I honestly don't see why you're still so raw about a 15 minute hootenanny. I had to watch the first Twilight movie with my girlfriend one time, and that lasted TWO HOURS! I couldn't even mute it!

[Krotoan]

In the example above your post the players thought I was ordering a bard to entertain me so they came to troll me. What I was asking was are there any bards playing. They were not playing some cute guitar solo but running hands across the keyboard for 15 minutes straight to annoy so I had to turn off my sound.

That is FF14 passive toxicity.

.. Did you ask them to stop at any point?