For the past 5 days, my chat has been filled with nothing but smacktalk

[SeiyaSoiya]

Is this normal?
This is my first savage tier release, never been to one on patch day.
For the past 5 days all my CWLS, discords, FC chat and other private communities I'm part of have been filled with the following
1. "Damn PF is bad" but much more explicit language
2. "lol the RDM has spent the most time dead"
3. randomly someone say "THIS [insert job acronym] WTF" during all times of the day
4. links to fflogs profiles of various people they meet in party finder and logs they parsed.

Is this normal for the FFXIV community? I have never seen such sociopathic behavior from any other online community, the amount of vitriol spouted in private channels is beyond reasonable.

it culminated with me joining a voice chat channel on discord and hearing them talking in the most toxic manner to our 8th party member who joined via party finder, blaming him for everything, scrutinizing every single move, linking to his fflogs profile, shaming him for job choice, race choice, gender choice etc...

[AngelCheese77]

As a RDM I do spend most of my time on the floor

But I think new expansion brings out the worst in people after months of boredom or time away

[BluexBird]

You need to go find better communities. Maybe don't use The Balance as a Discord server reference. lol

[Somnolence]

You need to go find better communities. Maybe don't use The Balance as a Discord server reference. lol

Meanwhile WARs turned their lounge in The Balance into cat pic posting channel.

[Atreides]

Meanwhile WARs turned their lounge in The Balance into cat pic posting channel.

What can I say Warriors are wholesome people.

[Quintessa]

You need to go find better communities. Maybe don't use The Balance as a Discord server reference. lol

Heh, the people on that discord server are a bunch of bads themselves but you better not tell them that.

[Kolsykol]

Sounds like really insecure people with a small pee pee to me.
Better to just leave.

[Kyrj]

Sounds like really insecure people with a small pee pee to me.
Better to just leave.

Mom said it's proportionately sized

[MistyMew]

You cant throw an entire community into your example.
Of course this is normal for some people....in ever single community/ social media/ game in existence.

Our community is filled with a wide variety of people with vastly different personalities.
Some you will like others you will not.

Just like anywhere I think.

[SherlottaEryut]

What you're experiencing is uncommon.. I have a total play time of 900+ hours and it's incredibly rare I ever came across anyone like that. Unpleasant people are unavoidable in MMO's but the blacklist button is there for your own comfort - don't feel bad for using it. You're just having one of those very weird weeks, it'll pass, just don't think too much into it.