Quote Originally Posted by Senn View Post
I see what you mean. I was under the impression the toxicity in WoW was more like you get insulted and trolled up front, but then afterwards you'd be left alone at least. In ffxiv, people just get so obsessed with you - they'll follow you and won't let up. I could be wrong about this but that's sorta what it seems like.
From playing both games, I'd say that's fairly accurate.
I played on various servers and it was the same on every server. Someone got a problem with you, they'd be pretty damn open about it. But after the dungeon/ battleground/ whatever, that would be it. It always felt more like an angry kid blowing off steam by insulting you. Which I'll not defend, crap behaviour is crap behaviour. But for what it's worth, it never lasted.

In FFXIV on the other hand I've heard, seen and even experienced my fair share of harassment and stalking that went beyond a couple of nasty insults in party chat. It's a fairly frequent problem in the RP scene because you have a few messed up people sneaking in and it's impossible to recognize them at first glance. Same as with the screenshot fans, you have some people that got stalked ingame after posting some cute screenshots on twitter.
It feels like part of the FFXIV community struggles with boundaries and seperating ingame from reality when it comes to social interaction.