I'm Excited to Login Today.

[Itsgigglez]

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!

Howdy wow friend! Welcome to FFXIV ♥! I've recently (as of 3 months ago) quit wow myself after like 10 years of playing it as well, you'll enjoy it here and I hope you find many years of joy and friends like you did in WoW.

I highly suggest the first thing you do if you ever plan to level a healer is to make the most passive aggressive and cringy raise macro you can to make people raise and then die again from the cringe of it.

[Puremallace]

Honestly, that sounds more amazing than anything. I should try that someday.

Try not to make fun of my UI lol

[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?

[Lanadra]

Keep on having fun then. That's what games are all about.

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.

They were complying with your request, you will have to elaborate on where exactly the issue is.

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.

[Vahlnir]

And now I will never be able to view Trusts the same way again because I will always be thinking of this image. lol

[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?

[Jin-]

Don't judge the community by what one person tells you without proof. Go by what you experience.

Personally nearly everyone I've met through the game has been nice.

Yes especially when it's dedicated troll who likes their own posts with legion of alts