The difference between WoW and FF14

[Orablast]

Wife and I are WoW refugees and we've been playing FF14 for about a month. We boosted a WHM (her) and BLM (me) to 70 and we are having an absolute blast in Shadowbringers. The trust system for dungeons is amazing and really lets us learn the dungeon before we step foot in it with others players. They have been my training grounds, and it's so much better than a target dummy!

Titania was our first 8 man fight that we had to learn from scratch with other players. We watched the video before entering, which helped a lot, but we still died multiple times on some of the mechanics, and we only wiped the group twice We managed to clear it on our 3rd attempt and the victory felt sweet! Only one person in our group was a little passive-aggressive about it, while the rest of the group was amazing. We had one guy offering tips and everyone was receptive to his advice, which I found refreshing.

I'm sure we'll encounter all types of folks as we continue our path to greatness! My takeaway from all this so far is that most players are genuinely nice and want to help others, but everyone loses their patience from time-to-time and it's up to us how we handle it.

[Reap00]

That's the price you pay for an overly trigger happy Blockwart community that reports everything that might offend someone at some time in the next 1000 years.

After playing this game for 5 years I learned that the community here is no different than WoWs, the only thing is that in WoW people say it to your face, here, people rage behind your back while putting on a polite front. Result: eventually you will get kicked w/o someone saying a word to you.

Absolutely not true. I played WoW for 5 years. The community was terrible. People talk to everyone with no respect whatsoever and devs don't care AT ALL. In FFXIV the devs want you to conduct yourself with a shred of decency. OH THE HORROR. FFXIV community is MUCH better as a result. I won't respond to rebuttals. This is my opinion and it won't change.

[Rasikko]

Here the difference for me:

Never played WoW, never seen what it looks like.

I've played FFXIV for almost 6 years.

The end.

[SerLuke]

That's the price you pay for an overly trigger happy Blockwart community that reports everything that might offend someone at some time in the next 1000 years.

After playing this game for 5 years I learned that the community here is no different than WoWs, the only thing is that in WoW people say it to your face, here, people rage behind your back while putting on a polite front. Result: eventually you will get kicked w/o someone saying a word to you.

What kinds of things are you saying you’ve been reported for? I’ve never been to GM jail or suspended from the game at all in the past 4 years I’ve been playing the game and I talk in party/alliance chat someone frequently.

[Nixxe]

The "git gud" crowd exists here too. It's just you're less likely to see any complaints or people harassing you for two reasons. (1) Harassment is punishable by banning if reported & (2) Most of the people like that are end game. So the most recent Raid, Savage, or EX content you'll be much more likely to run across someone like that. Most will still just silently leave though instead of mouthing off because they're afraid of getting banned.

Harassment is punished in WoW, but the community has talked itself out of reporting because they wrongly believe it does nothing. Actually, Blizzard switched to punishment from account bans to permanently doubling chat bans, and my understanding is that players who get actioned actually find the latter more painful.

[Granyala]

What kinds of things are you saying you’ve been reported for?

Beats me, never seen or heard from a GM. I know how to behave myself and I mostly keep to myself anyway.

In this forum? I got one infraction so far because apparently discussing and giving advice about a players performance in a cold, mathematical manner is considered "discrimination against a portion of the playerbase". I mean I would have understood if they infracted me for referencing the website & program that shall not be named but discrimination? ... Guess the Mod just picked the first option available in order to be done with it.
Since then I assume that every post of mine is reported and keep out of any serious discussions about specific players.

[Felyni]

I've never had a bad experience in WoW. I actually really enjoy the community, they're fun and nice and real chatty OW!
FFXIV is the exact same experience for me(minus the OW chattiness).
If I talk in party chat in either game, I either get replies, or I get ignored. Same thing happens in WoW and in FFXIV.
Except, in WoW I know I can say "adult" words when I mess up/die, without fear of offending anyone, so there is that. lol

HOWEVER. BIG.THING.TO.NOTE= I play on an PVE server.

Once you hit anything PVP related(in any game, esp pvp focused ones , the community 90% of the time goes to dirt, and everyone gets blocked lol.

[Granyala]

Once you hit anything PVP related(in any game, esp pvp focused ones , the community 90% of the time goes to dirt, and everyone gets blocked lol.

The chats in Battlegrounds were far more violent and fun than any actual PvP action that occurred

[SerLuke]

Beats me, never seen or heard from a GM. I know how to behave myself and I mostly keep to myself anyway.

In this forum? I got one infraction so far because apparently discussing and giving advice about a players performance in a cold, mathematical manner is considered "discrimination against a portion of the playerbase". I mean I could have understood if they infracted me for referencing the website & program that shall not be named but discrimination? ... Guess the Mod just picked the first option available in order to be done with it.
Since then I assume that every post of mine is reported and keep out of any serious discussions about specific players.

I meant in game you said something about not wanting to utilize party/alliance chat out of fear for getting reported I’m just confused where that is coming from exactly if you’ve never interacted with a GM?

[Granyala]

I meant in game you said something about not wanting to utilize party/alliance chat out of fear for getting reported I’m just confused where that is coming from exactly if you’ve never interacted with a GM?

Reports from others that are move vocal than I am.