How Can We Make the NA Community Better?

[DamianFatale]

You can do more than you might think, because the world is round. Every action you make is like a never ending chain, touching EVERYTHING within reach of that thing. You don't even realize it, but with one smile you might of passively reached at least 100-1000 people by chain reaction. That's how negativity, and positivity travel the world.

I'll explain it even more: Say you're in college, and you walk into your first class. Something happens, because of someone, and you get angry. People around you notice your bad mood, and they pick up on it right? Well, then those people go onto their daily activities, bringing their bad moods to other people, and the people they influenced do the same to more people. Your behavior ALWAYS matters. It's not futile.

[Vidrian]

IF you ever wish to see how it can also be, visit some EU servers. Except for some early pulls in the first week of 3.3, and the really rare rude behavior in dungeons, I have encountered close to zero toxic ness on Cerberus...
I'm personally always shocked to hear stories of people on NA data centers... But only on this game. I've met my fair share of toxic player in other games, but ONLY other mmo's...

[NovaLevossida]

As I said, it's the internet, and the golden rule stuff doesn't work in practice here like it does off the internet. The people you really need to reach with this stuff are going to be the same people who wouldn't listen or change their ways anyway. The only thing that's going to make them act any differently is personal consequences, and so long as you don't have meaningful character reputation, it won't matter.

[Esp]

I just ignore most negativity that I see, which is usually rare. Every so often you'll have a bad experience in maybe a dungeon or 24 man raid, but those are usually the people that will drop after which ever boss they are after, then the run goes smooth.

Last night I was having quite a bad day at work, came home and ran one of my roulettes, expecting more of my bad luck to transcend over to Eorzea, and while tanking I had a nice group in a Lost City HM party that was very talkative and just fun to be around, leagues better than about 50% of my Duty finder runs I have had, so much so that we ended up almost staying the full extra 5 min after the dungeon was over just talking about our favorite FF games xD

Going after trolls usually tends to make them troll harder, so don't give their behavior any thought and they usually stop...although, sometimes they won't. As others have mentioned, since people know you will most likely never see said people again, it kinda attracts this kind of behavior.

[Lorielle]

Server reputation is a thing. People are more mindful and careful on their actions because they don't want it to spread and be refused to do content or runs because of their negative behavior. DF(NA) is giving them an excuse to do what they want because they will never see each other again. Now mind you, not -everyone- is rude or anything. DF isn't toxic or anything. It honestly comes down to how one person is raised and their moral standards. It's why Oceanic/JP servers aren't necessarily so toxic so to speak. There's bad apples everywhere, but NA is just worse because we essentially have not community built with each other. There was no reason for us to do so until the occasional EX Primal.

[zosia]

I have noticed a certain rise in negative behavior, which is strange, because I thought I'd rarely ever see it in our game.

I.e.
Selling housing plots, abusing the amazon promotion, insulting one another, early pulling, being rude in dungeons, not being a proper mentor (basically just doing it for the crown), and other negative impacting behavior.

How can we improve our community? I'm starting to feel embarrassed. Am I the only one?

Games going down the pipes bub, This game peaked around 2.1-2.3 and it has only been getting progressively worse.

Players are getting angsty, desperate, and disappointed. Just find some small slice of the game to enjoy while this boat is still floating.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Games going down the pipes bub, This game peaked around 2.1-2.3 and it has only been getting progressively worse.

Players are getting angsty, desperate, and disappointed. Just find some small slice of the game to enjoy while this boat is still floating.

If the game is getting as bad as you say, then what keeps you here? Sounds like you don't like most of the people in the game.

[zosia]

If the game is getting as bad as you say, then what keeps you here? Sounds like you don't like most of the people in the game.

The same thing that keeps a good portion of us around? Friends n FC? lolololol

They do bring up a good point though. Players are very angsty, and on edge if late. These are symptoms, and there has to be causes to these effects.

Yeah, the cracks in this games finish are showing and growing. People are getting fed up of the same formula and the same excuses. At least I never get tired of being right ^_^

[MilesSaintboroguh]

The same thing that keeps a good portion of us around? Friends n FC? lolololol



Yeah, the cracks in this games finish are showing and growing. People are getting fed up of the same formula and the same excuses. At least I never get tired of being right ^_^

Sounds like you like to dabble in a bit of instigation then. Or maybe you like sadism. It's the only reason I can think of whenever a game is apparently bad to the point of one thinking the game should have never been sold, yet here we are.

[zosia]

Sounds like you like to dabble in a bit of instigation then. Or maybe you like sadism. It's the only reason I can think of whenever a game is apparently bad to the point of one thinking the game should have never been sold, yet here we are.

I gave you your reason, you don't have to make one up. Would I like the game to get better? Yes I would since I play it with my friends. Will the game get better? Nope. Stick around until 7.0 or some arbitrary point in the future and just watch how little things change.