Why is the FF14 Community So Adverse to Banter?

[JohnLakeside]

I love how OP went from "silly banter" (which is fine) to "Bro culture" before someone pointing that "sit lol" come from the same dark corners of the gamer community that gave us nice thing like the gamergate and the incel community. No wonder people don't really react to that positively. I don't know about OSRS, but WoW is still plagued with this mentality, and that's part of why people continue to say the community is toxic.

Here is a rule of the thumb. Ask yourself if you would talk that way to someone you never met IRL and how he would react : If your answer is anywhere between "he would be pissed" and "he would hit me in the face". You maybe telling it in a game is not a good idea. Especially since with written text, everything non verbal is left out of the conversation.

Your way of communication based on banter is often used by teenagers and young adults (but more often than not, they instinctively only use it in their social circle, not with complete strangers), but in a Final Fantasy mmo, which is a franchise mainly popular with millenials between 30 and 40, that sells itself as a chill mmo based on the story with barely any competitive content (pvp), you'll have a hard time finding people that still use that way of communication. It probably exists, but good luck finding it.

So...if you were at FanFest, playing a duty on one of the computers set up for convention-goers, and you died, and a girl behind you jokingly said, “Sit,” and laughed, you would get legitimately upset with her/hit her?