What is up with this toxic community

[Shougun]

I'm sure it's just personal experience but I found WoW players more playful, except in circumstance of PvP in which case they'll playfully hunt you till you spawn far far away lol. Feels like a lot more sensitive people in FFXIV, parties disband faster, someone was literally triggered, stuff like that. Not that it's hard to find cool people, just felt like I had an easier time with random people in WoW, but once you found your niche group both felt good.

WildStar has an excellent housing community (working together, help each other, visit each other), was a very strong pillar of that game - probably why I want it so bad over here / don't see FFXIV's house system as that impressive.. but that game had a lot of other issues that disinterested me lol (also wasn't a fan of the graphic style, to each their own but imo FF graphics are lovely :3).

I think some of the things SE does may unintentionally encourage a negative community, how certain boss mechanics work (Soar is a really stupid thing I keep seeing the community divide over for example), awkward half banishment of certain tools, poorly designed housing (the haves and have nots), badly designed rank system for FC promotion (game killing levels of disappointment possible in this silly promotion issue), certain QoL changes that should exist but encourage people to not try as hard (all MMO's problems these days), but I think mostly it just an internet thing. Also just because I said a few harsh things in a row, don't take that as a dislike of the game as a whole, I think SE has something special with FFXIV and I hope they continue to pour love, and money, into it - just that for example your FC being robbed via the promotion issue is something that could make you want to quit and that SE has it set up as is, especially compared to other MMOs, is quite silly.

Sometimes on the internet you just meet a string of jerks out in the open and you have to find the shelters that good people have made- that'd be all games and interactions with people.. just got to keep looking up