Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Then why are you, a person inside FFXIV, accepting that generalization and running with it instead of simply addressing the specific people in question while still encouraging the broader community to not act that way?

That's what's so strange about this whole thing. People who claim to be against toxic elements of the community are doing it by making blanket statements that would just feed into any stereotypes that can be held by people outside of the community.
I’m not accepting the behavior nor defending it. I’m merely explaining how bad behavior, even if it was from minorities of the community, can easily outweigh the good behavior of the rest of the community. Hence why in my original comment I stated “bad actions speak louder than good ones.”

There is nothing ‘we’ the normal players can do to ease the situation. If we speak up and defend our community, we’ll just come out as white knights. People will disregard anything we say.

Best we can do is ignore the situation and behave in a good way. If we are good as we claim to be, the truth will come out eventually. New player experience, content creators' voices can and hopefully will give a better representation of the FFXIV community.

This is why Asmon is trying the game in the first place. A lot of WoW content creators are praising it and its community. We just need to chill. Things will settle down and go back to normal after the hype goes down.