Why is the FF14 Community So Adverse to Banter?

[TeresaFortell]

XIV has the least funny group of people playing it i have ever encountered in my life. And you expect them to banter?

It's like walking into a minefield whenever you want to talk to someone.

[JohnLakeside]

Guaranteed nobody cares enough about the ShB zones enough to plug their ears and go LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU, they did it because you were being annoying like you're known to do
Interesting enough you leave out a lot of convenient details, what duty even was this? More importantly you make it sound like you went out of your way to find them and message them just to bm
And you wonder why people are adverse to banter as you put it? Please change and grow as a person, this isn't Dark Souls.

I don't even know who you people are LOL. "More importantly you make it sound like you went out of your way to find them and message them just to bm" What? I didn't do that and I literally have no idea how you could read what I wrote and jump to that assumption?

What other details could I have included? Some dude died in Eden Sepulture. I said "sit lol" and they called me a "jerk" and "if you don't have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all" (even tho I am being nice...) I said nothing back in response. Happy now?

[Moqi]

You don't really sound pleasant in this thread so I can see why people would avoid you in game as well.

[JohnLakeside]

You don't really sound pleasant in this thread so I can see why people would avoid you in game as well.

But I aim to spread positivity and my seeds of happiness! =')

[MicahZerrshia]

For me it's the fact that the player base seems to be younger (physically or mentally) or pearl clutchers and as an older, chill dude I just cannot relate. I would love a guild of 40yo+ ppl who are not anime obsessed and can talk about actual life or just likes to bs. I miss the days where I could log into ffxi or even ffxiv in its infancy, and just shoot the *cough* with a bunch of buddies about whatever random stuff came up and run content with a static who are open to discussion about the fight and their role in it. Every guild I have joined in the past decade is just constant teen-like drama and I am just over that at this point in my life and have ended up playing more solo as a result. Which reduces the fun of an mmo dramatically.

Oh and I hate discord and much prefer chatting in game or on something like vent, cannot wait for discord and all the nonsense that comes with it to be a thing of the past.

[Bubert]

You are so right… When I enter the duty I always type “Hello silly puddings!” and literally someone got offended by the word pudding?! Made me laugh how miserable some people are with 0% whimsy.

[DiaDeem]

Hello stranger.

I've been gaming online for at least 20 years, and for at least half of that time I've found this type of speech not funny, or clever, or offensive, but merely rude and juvenile. I simply don't care to deal with it anymore. Your tact seems awful, and your "banter" very low brow.

Frankly, this is the only vibe I get:

[JohnLakeside]

Hello stranger.

I've been gaming online for at least 20 years, and for at least half of that time I've found this type of speech not funny, or clever, or offensive, but merely rude and juvenile. I simply don't care to deal with it anymore. Your tact seems awful, and your "banter" very low brow.

Frankly, this is the only vibe I get:

I find it ironic that the ones who portend to be all about being nice, mature, and civil are almost always the one start throwing around personal insults wahahahaha. Call it "low brow" if you want, but theres some merit in being able to laugh at yourself. Your comment also illustrates my point.

“Sit lol” is incredibly mild banter, yet somehow we’ve gone from “I don’t enjoy that kind of banter” to making judgments about my maturity and character. Lets have some fun, yall !

[BigCheez]

I find it ironic that the ones who portend to be all about being nice, mature, and civil are almost always the one start throwing around personal insults wahahahaha. Call it "low brow" if you want, but theres some merit in being able to laugh at yourself. Your comment also illustrates my point.

“Sit lol” is incredibly mild banter, yet somehow we’ve gone from “I don’t enjoy that kind of banter” to making judgments about my maturity and character. Lets have some fun, yall !

You are talking to people who have gaslit themselves into believing that they're some kind of ascended being because they refuse to install Discord, and bring it up at every opportunity despite it having absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand. You are wasting your breath.

Welcome to the FFXIV community.

[Ilisidi]

Sit lol at somebody else is not being able to laugh at yourself. If you want to laugh at yourself do so, random others aren't yourself and that also aren't your buddies.