Quote Originally Posted by LittleImp View Post
When negative comments about the nature of another game and its players are a core part of your community's lingo, I have to disagree. The terms "WoW player" and "WoW Refugee" are used as generic insults constantly on 14. Imagine you're new to another game, and people repeatedly say things like "FFXIV player lol" any time you make a mistake.
It's circumstantial, isn't it? There have always been WoW players who have either moved to FFXIV or started to play both games. The difference is that there seems to be a lot more recently and it's being done more publicly. As far as I know, those terms are recent terms, especially refugee.

And I disagree that they are used as generic insults. They are used as a label, sure, but people use labels to identify. It's what people associate with those labels that determine whether it's a positive usage or negative. Streamers welcoming new WoW players can title their stream with "WoW refugees are welcomed." If anything, the term refugee is an insult for WoW, as if it's a game that has refugees, not the refugees.

It's interesting how it's totally acceptable to criticize other games, but the moment you try to criticize anything in 14 it's not unusual to get dogpiled and personally attacked, even if the criticisms are regarding extremely mundane things.

see: posts regarding the mogstation ui, customer support or purchasing/activating game codes (or god forbid posts actually criticizing gameplay mechanics).
Why would that be interesting? You would expect to find people that are happy with the game as is then not.