How does this game have such a fantastic community?

[Spy]

I'm sorry, but if you think that the FFXI community was somehow universally friendlier or more polite than other MMO communities, you're kidding yourself.

I've played 5 different MMOs, and FFXI's community is, to this day, the friendliest and more helpful I've played with.

The only friendly people in WoW were my guild mates everyone else simply only grouped up with me to get through a dungeon or something, then never talked to me again.
SWOTR I dont even think I existed to other players in that game.
Rift; another one where I was invisible.
Then FFXI and FFXIV where I can joke around with random people and not get my head bitten off.