Why do some people seem personally offended by people who have more than 1 character?

[Rowde]

This game is so inconsistent with accessibility for alts...
I know it has a reputation of being alt-unfriendly and yet we have 100 slots for Shared Macros that can be used by any of the other characters on the same account...

Which is nice for me since I do use my alts to do extra crafter/gatherer daily/weeklies to get more materia to blow up on my main...

[HolyReign]

Honest question, IF, if people didn't have as many alts or stuck with just having the one, since you can do everything/anything on one character, would it decrease the level of, "Congestion"? And would people having less alt characters, make it easier for new players or friends of current players, have it easier to be on the same server?

[Rowde]

Honest question, IF, if people didn't have as many alts or stuck with just having the one, since you can do everything/anything on one character, would it decrease the level of, "Congestion"? And would people having less alt characters, make it easier for new players or friends of current players, have it easier to be on the same server?

afaik, assuming alts are on same account this isn't really an issue. Since a common tactic for character creation is to make your character on the world you want outside of peak play times for that server. Like I remember when my sister and I transferred servers back in the day, it wouldn't let us do it during "normal business hours" cuz the servers were "congested", so we woke at 3am and were successfully able to transfer the same characters to the same server we were trying to earlier with no problems.

Dual-boxers or Trip-boxers and beyond though...

[ReynTime]

The 14 subreddit is the the cringiest, worst subreddit or community for a game I have ever seen. Alarmist impressive how bad it is, but part of the blame goes to the mods on there enabling the situation. If you want a more quality 14 subreddits check out ff14discussion, talesfromdf, and even shitpostXIV. I love it how people on main sub shit on these forums as if they’re bad when it’s a million times better than their crappy community.

As for the alt thing... I played a alt for the first time recently to try and gain an appreciation for the game again, and it worked.

All of those are just as bad. It's just a different side of the echochamber.

[KizuyaKatogami]

Most people there seem to hate fan art and cosplay ( especially if it's female characters ).
Imo fan art and cosplay has more of a place ( and also requires far more effort ) on a fanpage than copy pasted memes.

Fan art and cosplay sometimes sits in the positive but usually has still been massively downvoted too.

I thought this was sarcasm at first. Female cosplay and fan art is almost always in the hundreds or thousands of upvotes lmao. It’s the male ones that are usually at the risk of downvotes for not appealing to the majority of the reddit community. This transfers over to 14 as well where female outfits and designs seem to get favoritism from the devs over the male ones.

[Conundrum]

I am completely surprised you were able to find a post on reddit that wasn't a manga/chibi style drawing of someone's character or the sea of uwu. I dropped the xiv reddit just cause it was giving me flashbacks of the time I spent managing the only store in town that sold anime lol. I already can't watch anime anymore, I didn't want this game ruined for me too lol

Sort by "New" helps :-)

[kaynide]

I have two characters. No, it's not to play with friends on a another server. It's just for me. I like to swap back and forth between characters who have different jobs, different roles, and different vibes.

I am aware I'm enduring mountains of arbitrary, needless inconvenience and hassle because of it. I know I'm shut out of achievements, titles, etc., for not doing everything on one character. I am literally being gouged a higher monthly subscription fee to do so, for no reason at all other than Square Enix hates me. I don't need to be told "Oh honey, you're playing the game wrong."

Is there a non-gendered word for "mansplaining"? This seems like the most accurate term, but as an IRL man myself I don't think I get to call it that, lol.

Don't worry- I've got 4; 2 at End Game, 1 just getting into HW and 1 who's all "I dunno, maybe get to 50 'cause I definitely need 1 more room in my FC house"

[Kolsykol]

I thought this was sarcasm at first. Female cosplay and fan art is almost always in the hundreds or thousands of upvotes lmao. It’s the male ones that are usually at the risk of downvotes for not appealing to the majority of the reddit community. This transfers over to 14 as well where female outfits and designs seem to get favoritism from the devs over the male ones.

Yes but look at the downvotes, that's what I said.
It depends on the art too I am not saying that it's a 100% thing.

But even when they have hundreds or thousands of upvotes they still sit heavily in the downvotes too if you look at the %.
And the comment sections are usually FAR more negative too.
Particularly as if you say the art is reflective of the actual game itself, anything that's even remotely suggestive gets the hate brigade out in full force even if it's from the actual game.
Reddit in particular has a VERY vocal group of people who are extremely rude and hateful towards any of that even when it's real people cosplaying.
It's not uncommon to scroll down and see it even when the mods have stepped in and deleted comments and reminded people of the rules, people still do it.

I dunno why some subreddits are worse with this than others, for some reason the Tekken subreddit is actually worse with this.
People on there will unironically label fanart of Ling that is accurate to her in Tekken 7 '' hentai '' because it's cute, that's how ridiculous people are about it.

I don't think that art of male characters really gets downvoted, altho it's more rare to see art of male characters but this extends to art in general most people prefer to draw female characters.
But I do think that there are people who get extremely upset and are extremely petty about female characters that aren't nuns incarnate and they're rampant on a lot of subreddits the FFXIV one included.
Even if it'll get a positive score because of people scrolling through and just pressing upvote the actual comments tend to be far more indicative of the downvoters and it still tends to have hundreds to thousands of downvotes too.

It's true that people just downvote simply because '' it doesn't appeal to me/ I don't like it '' which is extremely petty and I think sort of an abuse of the system.
Just keep scrolling ffs...
But I think that those people are far more active with female characters because people tend to get way more emotionally invested in it when it's female characters and politicize it way more.

[Equitable_Remedy]

Why do some people seem personally offended by people who have more than 1 character?

This isn't a thing that actually happens.

[Conundrum]

This isn't a thing that actually happens.

Denial, not just a river in Egypt.