Quote Originally Posted by Sunarie View Post

You can't generalize an entire community based on your (or my) personal experiences alone. Additionally, if you're going to dismiss someone's negative experience in FFXI because they didn't have the right group of friends (FC/LS), then you should also do the same for this game.. and it ends up going back to you just need a good group of friends in any MMO. That's my point, which I'll keep parroting until people stop pretending communities have somehow degraded catastrophically, and everything use to be peachy keen.
I compare it to visiting New York City and then visiting Portland, Oregon. People are generally much different between the two, and you can easily make a general statement about them based on your impression.