FF14 has an amazing community!

[Krotoan]

It's a dose of realism and caution amidst a dangerous pack of wolves.

"Hi everyone! I've been enjoying this game so much and everyone has been so nice!"

"Just wait, this horrible thing happened to me and it will happen to you! The Nice things you think are all wrong and smoke and mirrors!"


... Like.. it's OK to be wary but this reaction to EVERY SINGLE POSITIVE EXPERIENCE is just tired and apparently for the majority of vocal people coming here UNTRUE. Let people find their own experience and say some nice things.

The simply fact that the lead developer had to speak out and explicitly state that male viera would not be designed to resemble young children is proof enough in itself that there is a very rotten underbelly within the FFXIV community. To say nothing of the repeated scandals regarding cults and predators being exposed amongst Free Companies and Discord communities.

It's proof that there's gross humans out there who exist in absolutely every single community who are the reason we can't have nice things. Nobody is saying those people don't exist.

Perhaps you've been lucky and haven't experienced such things - but with the general lack of willingness for the community to acknowledge its flaws, I don't see the point in beating around the bush.

I've been around online communities quite long enough to see both ends of the scale, what I don't see is the point in bringing this up every time someone has something positive to say or details their positive new experience. There are always the same "wet blanket" posters in here who always react the same way, as if they NEED their crappy experiences validated by making sure others feel the same way about everyone else.

When I first started playing ESO, someone randomly gave me gold because they liked the look of my character. I met a number of good friends during my time playing WoW.

FFXIV really isn't anything special. It has the same amount of good and bad as any other MMO out there.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that it's the worst community ever. Just that it really isn't the perfect, flawless and wholly welcoming entity that it is all too often portrayed as being around these parts.

That was awesome and as someone who has played a lot of other MMO's I can tell you that FFXIV does have it's fair share of undesirables, trolls and jerks.. but we don't have to detail this like it's some sort of inevitability that people will constantly be running into them.

The claim that FFXIV is some wonderland utopia is next to completely non-existent, the constant response to positivity with "just you wait till THIS happens to you because I had a crappy experience and it's what this game is REALLY like" posts however are FAR more common.