Toxicity and Community

[Equitable_Remedy]

It's weird how all of these "community is toxic" threads started flooding the forums right around the time that a certain streamer announced that he was going to play the game.

Probably a coincidence.

[Rinhi]

It's weird how all of these "community is toxic" threads started flooding the forums right around the time that a certain streamer announced that he was going to play the game.

Probably a coincidence.

probably has to do with countless of players decrying WoW/all of the WoW community as toxic from anecdotal evidence or just hearsay while saying the same things don't happen in XIV, even though they do
but if you post about them, you get harassed, victim blamed or people make excuses why it happened and how it's just a few bad eggs (but they don't make this distinction in WoW's case, mind you), or hell, in asmon's case, blaming WoW for the harassment he received in XIV

[Shalan]

It's weird how all of these "community is toxic" threads started flooding the forums right around the time that a certain streamer announced that he was going to play the game.

Probably a coincidence.

It's actually a conversation that's been had in the community repeatedly over the years, this isn't something new. Last time it was a big topic was around this time last year (or the year before?) following some youtube videos about FFXIV fans attitudes towards criticism of the game and a series of threads about gameplay norms and player skill. I suppose the scale might be larger now, but the game has been steadily growing so that's to be expected.

I fully expect the drama to die down soon only to be kicked up again in another year or so, just as it always has.