Quote Originally Posted by Goji1639 View Post
I'm mainly addressing the people who still believe that FFXIV has a nicer, kinder, better community than other online games. This was a high profile, excessive systematic harassment of one person and should be a wakeup call for anyone who was under the delusion that this game was some kind of exception when it comes to toxic online communities. I'm just doing my part to see this incident doesn't get swept under the rug, because I'm sure plenty of people want everyone to just move on so FFXIV doesn't face the scrutiny it deserves for this.
Scrutiny for the harassment of a prominent streamer who gets this treatment pretty much every single new game he plays?

No it wasn't a good look for FFXIV. Sure. But if we go with what the aftermath is: Quick GM action (which surprised even Asmon), multiple community outlets having players decrying the actions of those who harassed him and wishing him nothing but unmolested play in the future (yes there are still haters and zealots out there and nobody is saying they don't exist), it seems that the game experience, even for the streamer who expected this to happen, seems to be pretty good.

I watched his streams too. Hours and hours of them. You know what I saw? People in his instanced runs (he pretty much just straight up random queued DF) who let him just play and didn't get all gross when he was single pulling every single dungeon he did (to Asmons credit he adapted to tanking pretty quick). People trying their hardest to give him good advice within the spam and immediately trying to help him minimize the interference he was getting who must have been FFXIV players by their familiarity with the game (they can also be his community members, this isn't exclusive. In fact contrary to the narrative I've been reading there's probably a pretty large contingent of actual longtime FFXIV players in his audience) .


Pointing to his experience though as some revelation of the "true FFXIV community" is super disingenuous too . His experience is most assuredly a unique one considering his position and circumstance and any good faith argument has to admit it's not indicative in any measure of what someone playing the game will go through. It's like judging a restaurant on their service and staff when someone famous comes in to eat with their entourage, it's just a circus. You're much better off looking at smaller content creators and individual "nobody" accounts for any sort of real measure.