How has your mindset changed with regards to other players since your started the ga?

[ern815]

You mean the toxicity of the community? I think it's more or less on par as when I had started a few years ago. Actually, it was worst when I started out in ARR. I remembered I was fighting Odin in a party. Some of them were calling me names due to me being bad at avoiding mechanics. They were throwing insults rather than criticizing my game play which kinda sucked.

Nowadays I rarely encounter such toxic players which is a good thing, and the FFXIV community are actually quite nice these days.
We messed up, we are ok with it and we fight on to clear the instance. That was an awesome experience especially with the clear.

I was expecting some WoW refugees coming in and destroy the existing harmonious and friendly FFXIV community with their toxic attitude but nope, all is still very peaceful and harmonious. I'm glad that the overall FFXIV community still remains friendly and not extremely salty over the years that makes me feel at home again despite being away for a few weeks from the game. Of course there are a few bad apples from time to time, but always just move on or block them. They might already forget what they did to you in the past when you bump into them on the next instance/raid.