Quote Originally Posted by BlisteringFrost View Post
You and I have very, VERY different experiences of the playerbase in FF14. I see even more toxicity just passively watching a chat on an average day than I see in WoW in a week. It's not to say nobodys Toxic in WoW. Just open Trade chat and you immediately have 30 reportable posts right away. But when most of FF14 playerbase is showing toxicity as soon as they open their metaphorical mouth it's not a good look to those of us who actually see it.

Ignoring it, or pretending it doesn't happen because most of the reasonable or, perhaps, smarter players just don't talk generally doesn't mean it isn't there.
I've played for 12 years and can count reports I've made on one hand, and I've never been confronted by a GM. This always concerns me when another player mentions their experience has been this bad when so many of us never see that. I send random tells all the time if I see a sick glamour or some such. It's never an issue. Ever.

But I've also never touched WoW. For years it was the fear of it being vile towards me, a woman, but nowadays it's just genuinely that it doesn't look as enjoyable to me since I care way more about lore and story and Blizzard is all over the place with that. I got annoyed by it in early Overwatch (which was supposed to be an MMO) being so messy and disjointed and that's just gotten worse over the years.