The Official Forums is an EXTREMELY poor example of a "Good Community"

[Heroman3003]

The forums are great at representing the absolute worst, most toxic parts of the playerbase, as thats where people who love to talk about the game more than playing it will go.

[Renalt]

"The Official Forums is an EXTREMELY poor example of a "Good Community"

Given you're a prime example of the issues with it, no duh

What's funny buddy is that between you and Aveyond...I respect you highly. You may be aggressively hostile to pretty much everyone you come across but at least you acknowledge someone said something...even if it's to tell them they are a big poopy face and then dismiss it all together.

You're like my Kurt Angle. You may be a heel, but you are MY heel and I at least get some sort of entertainment when you show up.

Aveyond though? Sorry I can't respect him. I get enjoyment though in people's responses to his stuff...just not what he himself actually says.

I know people could search my posting history and find im a big walking contradiction at one point or another. Everything I say is opinion and opinions change.

As of now...you may be a shinning example of what I don't like in how people go about thing...but you're also a special kind of malace that I dunno...I kinda dig it.

Again...I'm one big walking contradiction. I know.

[Hurlstone]

Again...I'm one big walking contradiction. I know.

I think anyone who says they are not is lying or kidding themselves. We are all walking messes of contradictions and bias, its what makes us human. For better or for worse, I think forums are actually one of the best places to see that.

[SturmChurro]

I think a lot of the "angry" takes are because people feel like they aren't heard.

There's been a lot of feedback on multiple things over years, but the english community seems to be sidelined most of the time and getting very little aknowledgement for things they bring up.

This leads to a loop of frustration and eventually people just shouting into void.

Definitely true, to an extent. A silent SE on a myriad of issues. It took them until leading into EW to even mention they were looking into viera hairs, for example, and then apparently when they did address hairs at the start of ShB, that has now become a mistranslation (?). If we had actual cms involved with the community here, I think many would be a lot more positive.

I feel like the forums is a very poor representation of the actual community in the game. If you based it on the forums you’d expect people to be mean spirited, aggressive, and vindictive. But after playing since 1.0 I’ve rarely ever seen people argue or otherwise abuse each other in-game. It happens of course, but the general vibe is nowhere near as volatile as it feels on the forums.

That is because many players are too afraid of getting their actual accounts banned in-game. On top of this being a more discussion oriented platform, rules are skirted here seemingly more regularly, and even if a player was to get permad, I've seen many just laugh it off. I have seen lots - and I mean a lot - of horror stories regarding many players. Whether it be through Discord, Twitter, Reddit, or wherever else.

[Thaciscokidd]

I think a lot of the "angry" takes are because people feel like they aren't heard.

There's been a lot of feedback on multiple things over years, but the english community seems to be sidelined most of the time and getting very little aknowledgement for things they bring up.

This leads to a loop of frustration and eventually people just shouting into void.

This.

2ch has gotten more official responses that the official forums have and those dudes are some of the most toxic/angry players in the 14 player base.

I'll admit I do go there and 4ch, and if I get some Hennessy in my body Reddit and if I really wanna slum it the other R gaming site. And what I've notice its mostly people congregating around likeminded people and mods/jannies cleaning up the dissenters. The only problem(good thing?) here is that with no mods/jannies to police and steer conversation, a lot of this place is just a bunch of people yelling at each other till they get tired and/or find a new thread to yell at each other till they get tired.

[Edelgarde]

Forums are the perfect place to piss people off. What else are you gonna do with it? I wouldn't have used the forums if it wasn't so entertaining.

[grinkdaboy]

i feel like the avg xiv general discussion browser has 5x the braincells of your average wow general discussion browser

[BaconBits]

i feel like the avg xiv general discussion browser has 5x the braincells of your average wow general discussion browser

5 times 0 is still 0.

[Zebraoracle]

5 times 0 is still 0.

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTahahahahahahahahahahaha

[AnnRam]

Because you can't say anything in game, not even "turn your stance on please" because it may get your account suspended for "bad behavior" and reddit it's full of fake "PMA".

Twitter it's the worst place so far the amount of whiteknights protecting with their lives every single decision of SE is stunning.