We Have a Great Forum Community

[Rinoa]

Up until now I've thought of the Forum community as slightly rude. Then i took a step back and realized that most of the threads weren't all that bad. I don't think that the forum is populated by angry jerks, Just that most of us have a bad day and get slightly confrontational.
To all the people who have a bad view of the forums. If you take a step back and rethink your view on the forum community, does it look more inviting?

This is latter in this thread

Wow, you guys really surprised me. I was expecting a flood of angry posts, You guys are actually very polite.
Here's the data I've collected from this thread. 15 posters stated their opinion and where not rude. even though you disagreed with me, your actions spoke along with your words.
Oh, and one more thing. I know the in-game community is much better than the forums, I'm not trying to compare the two.(^_^)

[MrLion]

No...still looks like a Complaint Registration forum...and its most likely not gonna stop until...well you know when.

[Xatsh]

This forum is no where near an accurate representation of the actually community of XIV honestly. So I would say the forum community horrible compared to the in-game community.

I would give this Forum Community a 4/10 honestly. Most people do nothing on here except complain, threaten to quit, flame every suggestion or comment to a post, or talk about how bad the game is. The few post that are not complaining are good though I will say that.

I for one cannot wait for them to charge to get rid of the trolls and such from these forums. Then you will see the real community.

[Murugan]

Internet forums are always magnets for the dregs of society. People used to say it was the anonymity of the internet, but I think you can just look at facebook discussions and see clearly that wasn't the case. I think it is the soapbox that creating a forum thread gives which causes this type of behavior.

Fool's names and fool's faces are abound in public places.

I'm a bit of a hypocrite with all the posting I do, but this adage is so true. The in game community is so much better, and the forum community will never improve significantly no matter what shape the game takes. It is impossible, unless they really start heavy moderation.

[Stockapotapoulos]

Up until now I've thought of the Forum community as slightly rude. Then i took a step back and realized that most of the threads weren't all that bad. I don't think that the forum is populated by angry jerks, Just that most of us have a bad day and get slightly confrontational.
To all the people who have a bad view of the forums. If you take a step back and rethink your view on the forum community, does it look more inviting?

A little bit. There is a lot of aggressiveness in the forums, but I try to ignore them. I focus on the laid-back, friendly, reasonable people here, and they're pretty cool. Finding some of them makes the experience here worthwhile.

I agree with most of the folks here, though; the in-game community is much better. I've run into some good, helpful people so far.

[Chocobits]

I can't speak for everyone else, but sometimes this forum is a great place to let off some steam by making a good troll thread. My "Bigger Snacktrays for Seekers of the Moon Miqo'te" was a mild success before it got nuked.

Most of the time my observations are razor sharp and informative. Look forward to more of my works!

If I'm not giving obvious indications that I'm trolling, what I say is worth reading; I share those brain nuggets with you, the community, to inspire and awe you. Together, we can make the community a brighter place.

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[Commat]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-Grind-Parties

Posted an hour and a half after this one...

[Lienn]

Ya this is a very bad community IMO. But this is in part because we have a very small "real" FFXIV community right now...most of the playerbase migrated from other MMOs in bands and ended subduing the original FFXIV community. So the less that matters right now here is the FFXIV...its all about FFXI vs WoW vs Rift vs any other MMO. In the end we got a clah of multiple MMO communities here and who paid for this is the FFXIV itself.

[Nel_Celestine]

i'm just sad that a lot of FFXIV's uniqueness is being shafted and shuffled aside to please those people who don't want a new game but an older one with just updating graphics.

[Murugan]

i'm just sad that a lot of FFXIV's uniqueness is being shafted and shuffled aside to please those people who don't want a new game but an older one with just updating graphics.

What's sad is that you keep trolling with this same line. Just because people don't want X feature from your ideal example of a "modern MMO" doesn't mean they are stuck in the past.

I should have added you to my ignore list long ago, oh well easy enough to fix I guess.