Quote Originally Posted by Fyrebrand View Post

So, let's go with 3%. 3% were bad people doing bad things today. Can we use a percentage that small that to say anything about "the FFXIV community" as a generality? I don't think that makes much sense, myself.
I'm just going to go with what happened today was a mix of people being stupid about a "celebrity" streaming his experience (the "HI MOM I'M ON TV!" crowd) , People in his community being on-brand for the type of "jokes' he himself says they find funny (messing with asmond in every way possible), People who genuinely don't want him or his community here (They must exist, they exist for every game. Gatekeeping is a thing), and People who just wanted to be a part of it in some way (possibly positively).


Using this experience as a "GCBTW" is extremely disingenuous. Dudes a high profile streamer with following that his character cultivates as "just having fun" pranksters. This is not the average experience for playing FF and shouldn't be considered representative of anything but how hard it is to have a normal experience once you're "famous".