It's just a game... a short game... so please be nice

[Azurymber]

I keep noticing people in PvP who are completely rude to others.

I've seen tons of people tell others they shouldn't even be in PvP because of their gear.
Now I fully understand that sentiment in dungeons (gear is tiered so if you get i50/55 af and try to do pharos you are wasting people's time), but this is pvp. It's a short couple-minute match. If people are new to it, it should be just fine to have new gear.

I also see lots of people telling other people they are horrible (including myself). If I don't wake someone up when they are slept then i'm the "worst healer ever," even if i'm being stunned and trying to keep a bunch of dd's alive.
If a dd gets killed in a few hits they are a terrible DD, regardless of what anyone else did.

This is a game meant to be fun. You aren't getting any super magical awards from it. So why not just be nice to people? Thank them for trying, point out how they could do better, etc.

But there is honestly no reason to be a jerk, or to try to blame specific people for losses.

Just be nice to people and have fun

[Dale]

I have to agree. I've played a lot of MMORPGs, and this game has by far the most vile community I have ever seen. Final A-Hole 14 would be a better name for it.

[Norack]

It's PVP if you aren't a huge rude a** to everyone and anyone you ever meet. Than you shouldn't be playing PvP.

Heck i've seen ppl kill ppl in RL over pokemon cards and madden as well as CoD and many many other games. I think a game isn't truly considered a game until someone goes and kills someone cause they beat them in it or something. /sarcasm

[TaneshimaPopura]

PvP community has always been more hostile than PvE community because PvP community cannot understand why some people are clickers, why some people cannot play their class properly so on and so forth. PvP community people are people who don't really follow rules, so if given a scripted event they are more likely to die due to wanting to push their limits. However, those in the PvP community who practice restraint can always almost certainly clear any PvE content.

This has been so for any sort of MMORPG.

[AldricBranchais]

How disgusting. Some assclowns tend to forget that real people are behind these characters, they should be treated as such.

[Kicoe]

I think the hostility in Crystal Tower is able to compete with Wolves' Den here and there! It's not just about PVP compared to PVE, once anonymity comes into play (random queued content) chances are somewhat high that people become "hostile" and this didn't start with FFXIV.

[Exiras]

-> This allagan axe marauder will find and kill me irl (his friend also came to my server and made a "beware of this bot" thread when I was clearly playing my character

I don't think standing in our starting zone and not even moving constitutes as "playing your character"

[Azurymber]

I don't think standing in our starting zone and not even moving constitutes as "playing your character"

Even if he was doing that, threatening someone with death irl is cyberbullying.
I think we just all need to calm down and remember, this is just a game.

Managing anger is important in life :x

[Houston009]

I don't think standing in our starting zone and not even moving constitutes as "playing your character"

I agree with him wholeheartedly, when I get partied with this guy for 50s PvP I just know I'm going to get Zero heals, hell the last two fights I had with him/her, he/she just sat there and didn't heal anyone even though NO ONE was on'em. <.<

I have this strange feeling people on his/her server are telling him to just que up so they can get free wins. I mean honestly why would EVERYONE (including tank) focus a MNK when a healer can just free cast.

[realistic1]

I've been called a ****ing w****, i've had IRL death threats, I've been told I can't even kill titan, I've been told cleric stance is not very optimal for healing and that I should kill myself, I've been told i'm reported for being bad, I've been told to transfer to sargatanas and queue with hakai (a bot), I've been outed as a nazi IRL because of my poor performance in wolves den, I've been told that yoshi p will personally ban me. I've been All within the span of 5 hours of trying to learn wolves den arena

I was a bit surprised to see that one of the people that gave you are hard time was a player that is known on your server as a pretty good player and member of a regular premade. It is too bad that this person with skill could not be more like some of the very skilled players on my server like Shin and Zydeko. I meet up with these two in pugs sometimes (with and against) and not only are they very skilled players, they are patient with the pug members and both have entertained questions from me after matches and had no problem or too big of an ego to provide tips on how to better avoid or manage whatever it is I am inquiring on.

Any time you have a heated contest against another team, you have adrenaline and tempers can flare. I am not saying this is right, I am saying I think that you tend to see this more in pvp than in pve. I myself have asked in chat 'wtf' a few times when a player we discussed being slept prior to start is taken out of sleep repeatedly by the same person so I am certainly not without sin. However, I have never told someone they are bad or should not pvp or queue. I promise to think of this thread the next time the urge to say 'wtf' comes up.

With that said, the one guy with the threats is totally out of line and I would strongly recommend that you report him for harassment. Detail what was said and keep your screen shots.