Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
Spend a couple of weeks in WoW watching chat in a major city and/or running random dungeons. You'll understand the enthusiasm.
I joined in BC. I played WoW every single day I could, for years until late WoD. Even then, I still get on sometimes to play, I've still pre-ordered every single expac. I can say that I've been around on there for a pretty long time.

So, you can't say I hadn't seen trade chat, and I hadn't dealt with people in dungeons. So... Where's this large amount of toxicity I'm apparently missing that makes wow so horrid and ffxiv so great?

The actual, literal difference, is WoW doesn't try to loom this idea above your head that giving advice is a cancerous sin that'll get you yeet deleted from the game. I get it's just my opinion, but a community afraid to speak is not a good community, it's a quiet one.

But what do I know, I'm just the guy playing the literal worst healer in the game on a race that gives no benefits to said class with practically no curve achieves, yet having no problems getting into parties for whatever I've tried to join, and have been complimented on my ability to play my class despite those shortcomings of it.

Oh, also, if you wanna talk trade, have you seen some server's NN? Zalera's even has a rep for spouting racist, homophobic, and sexist crap with no GM's intervening. It's weird, community's scared to speak up because GM's, but GM's also show time and time again not to do much of anything unless they personally take offense.