Poor community in this game?

[Bolf]

I love the people on my server. It's very rare that I find an unfriendly group in PF. I always seem to find a fun party even on FATE grinds. Admittedly sometimes DF can be quiet but that's the nature of the beast as people have to spam for grinds but I always try and start a bit of a chat - goes a long way.

I started playing the game as a big final fantasy fan, I stay because of the community.

[Amarande]

Yes, as a former WoW player, the modern mob tagging system is welcome indeed. Of other MMOs I've played, LOTRO also has shared tagging, but SW:TOR does not - interesting, as it seems to suggest a relationship between two-faction system and exclusive tagging (both or neither, basically).

I had wanted to play FFXIV for quite some time, I was only somewhat late in joining because I had been occupied with other games - and as I already owned the TOR expansion, most of the LOTRO expansions, and an up to date WoW, while I still had yet to make the initial outlay for FFXIV, I tended to gravitate there for budgetary reasons (which were also a main reason I wasn't playing MMOs at all for a lot of later 2014). It's nice here.

Could be player region colours people's opinions? This is also the first time I've played an MMO on a European server and I've noticed the EU community is very laid back, while most of the "MMO horror stories" tend to be associated with NA server communities ...

[Mahri]

There's also something unique in the way that this game has fostered community relations between the players and dev team. There's a rapport that could almost be described as "intimate", with the developers constantly coming out to communities in every region to relate things, discuss plans, and generally act like participants rather than supervisors. It says something that, at the Tokyo fanfest, Yoshi-P mentioned how good it is to just talk about the game with players who know it and speak the language of it rather than constantly feel obligated to "sell" them on it.

It isn't trying to be the greatest MMO ever made. It's not a game that plays the playerbase against itself through a faction system (WoW), it's not a game that's trying too hard to cater to "hardcore" players, feeling as if envy ought to be incentive to progress (Wildstar). It doesn't have an established setting (Warcraft, Star Wars, Elder Scrolls) and so can develop the game world in a way that makes it a believable place where an MMO happens. It's trying to be good and fun, and this is just about it. They talk openly about the emotional experience and satisfaction of creating the game, the art, the music. There is so much heart in it.

I think this is one of the reasons why the community tends to feel a lot more agreeable than many other games. Not the only reason, but much can be said for the effort being made to create a culture of friendship.

[Logo]

You can use a keyboard with the playstations, and if you aren't prepared to do that you probably shouldn't even be trying to play this game. Some degree of communication is necessary and playing on a console is not a good enough justification for people being unable or unwilling to communicate with other players.

I play with a keyboard and controller, but honestly its still not that easy to chat while dungeon running.
it will unpop your cross hotbar and sometimes you need to retarget just for a "lol". or you think you're about to type and it opens 17 menus and you run off a cliff.

No ones talking about integral communication here, just your boring idle dungeon chitchat

[Able]

I am not a hardcore MMO player anymore. I swore I was done with them after ten years of Eve Online. The only reason I'm playing this game is because I find the community to be so pleasant.

[DefendPopPunk]

It's kind of a mixed bag. For every party you get that has the most amazing and helpful people, there's always gonna be that party with that guy in it. You know the guy. Probably best not to take it personally and just don't give them the attention they're seeking.

[Nubrication]

Couldn't agree more. FFXIV has more elitists than all the MMORPGs I've played (Vanilla WoW, Aion, Tera).

[Chiramu]

A lot of MMO idiots still think WoW is the only MMORPG to play and I think because FFXIV is Japanese, therefore in their minds, "inferior" to western MMO we are saved from the masses of idiocy .

It is a good community but like everything there will be people who you will not get along with.

[Seiryuukishi]

We play on the same server OP. I'll admit if you hang in Mor Dhona you're liable to find yourself privy to some childishness. What form that takes is dependent on the delinquent typing it out. Even the DF has its overabundance of morons. A lot of it is, more or less, them trying to prove something they can't in reality. It won't do you any good to try and rationalize the logic behind asinine or crude jokes/comments. Just smile, wave and move on. An unfortunate prerequisite for playing MMO's is to have a thick skin. I can't tell you the amount of crap I've gone through on White Mage. Best advice I can give is to get your shit kickers ready, you got a lot of wadding to do :/

[FuraXai]

Out of all the mmo's, this by far still has one of the best communities.