"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[Jennah]

It ... depends what content you're doing.

While you're still going through the MSQ, the likelihood of finding a jerk is almost zero.
If you're trying to do Extreme/Savage, *especially* if you are in no way ready for Extreme/Savage, you'll find some angry people.
Areas that attract 100+ people in the same shout channel will have at least one jerk spamming it, guaranteed: Hunts, Bozja, the Limsa Aetheryte.
And PvP and RP attract the same types of problem players they can everywhere else.

All that said, it still *is* by and large a very open and friendly community. At least compared to the alternatives.

[Lium]

It ... depends what content you're doing.

While you're still going through the MSQ, the likelihood of finding a jerk is almost zero.
If you're trying to do Extreme/Savage, *especially* if you are in no way ready for Extreme/Savage, you'll find some angry people.
Areas that attract 100+ people in the same shout channel will have at least one jerk spamming it, guaranteed: Hunts, Bozja, the Limsa Aetheryte.
And PvP and RP attract the same types of problem players they can everywhere else.

All that said, it still *is* by and large a very open and friendly community. At least compared to the alternatives.

I was also going to mention that. The type of content is a big contributor to the type of behavior you might encounter. For normal dungeons and trials and the MSQ people are by and large chill. Even if we wipe for some reason.

However, for more high-end content like savage/ex dungeons and trials, your mileage may vary because the expectations are higher.

[KizuyaKatogami]

I’ve experienced most of my toxicity in normal dungeons rather than ex or savage tbh. Moreso because it’s the toxic casualism and enabling that’s the issue. People in endgame dungeons not knowing their rotation or knowing to aoe/dps on healer etc. And then trying to tell them what to do and they get aggressive and it’s counted as “forcing your play style on them.” Yikes.