As a new player that really likes this game ...

[RichardButte]

Meh, I don't play garbage MMOs like WoW

Considering how much of XIV is stolen directly from WoW, the irony is palpable.

One guy would rarely shower because he played WoW 80% of the time, classes were 10%, eating was 5%, and sleeping was 5%. He would make a Sasquatch want to go into Bath & Body Works to get body wash to clean itself.

There are basement-dwelling smelly people playing every MMO out there. Choosing to not practice hygiene is a byproduct of addiction to the sensation of "progress", which MMOs are designed to give their players.

There were people who had the "God/dess of War/Magic/Hand/Land" titles less than a week after SB launched. You really think they were breaking for showers?

On the plus side, I feel I need to mention...this does not come close to some of the vitrol over on the WoW forums anything someone tries to bring this comparison up. Seriously lol. Go take a look if you're bored.

The WoW forums are actually better than the XIV forums. You get more trolls, but the general attitude is more laid back while XIV's forums have their own special brand of nitpickiness.

When people make reasonable QoL suggestions on these forums, there's a certain type of poster that tends to crawl out of the woodwork to explain how the suggestion isn't "necessary" and therefore shouldn't be added, even though that's exactly what a QoL suggestion IS.

Though it's generally the opposite IN game: WoW is much worse in game while XIV's in game community is usually pretty laid back.