A returning players thoughts on the community

[Oldschoolegamer38]

Well, if you insist!



The community is the same as it has always been.



Never seen this or anything like it at all so I find it questionable. This seems like something silly to freak out over unless there were already riled up about something.



People have been like that at times in recent years, but that's not an FF XIV thing exclusively. That's an internet/societal thing.



Nope. The only constant I see in this scenario is you. There are bad apples in every community. Perhaps you had some bad luck. Or maybe it was your reaction to what others were saying. Either way, this is something we don't know definitively.

But there you go, proof.

point 1) when I left the game the community was still friendly towards one another and the elitist asshattery didn't infect the community yet there were a few bad apples and the community looked down on them.
Point 2) When I was reorientating myself back into playing this game I was asking legit questions if there were any significant changes to Limsa and other major cities. Players usually know better than a forum or patch notes as players are the ones interacting with the game.
point 3) I did say "hello miss I am a returning player" and just asked a few questions that were not hard to answer in my opinion if they were up to date on things and her first response was "do I know you?" and replied, "I am returning player most likely no" and was by how the person was typing with a lot of "..." that was my cue to stop talking to her and I did apologize for asking her a couple of questions. and I asked someone else who just said, "look at the patch notes" as this goes back to my answer to point 2.
Point 4) That is not a generalization when the statement of "Is this is how the community has become?" is because of that interaction with the person that had me dogpiled and falsely reported for asking them to kindly move. you left out the context of why I made that statement.

But I can understand why people are hesitant to talk to other players they do not know, because of cancel culture and such. People scared to interact with others will lead to more tribalism and a breakdown of the community. People need to push themselves and stop being afraid to interact with others, I myself will continue to interact with others regardless of who they are, I will continue being a friendly, positive person in the community that people will hopefully not be afraid to talk to.