Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

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Anyone else cringing reading a certain someone's comments?

I think people taking the game way too seriously in PUG content is a shining example of issues with the XIV playerbase. Or maybe it's just the forums/reddit.

I honestly think 100% of it is that these players have no clue whats going on with some of the other players...for instance when 3 or 4 are on their own discord joking around during alliance raids, or other content = nobody sees that. Yes admittedly even I on some evenings will mess around in easier than Savage raid do or die extreme death hard core content be on with a few friends, in an entirely stranger based instance and we will goof off. Will we clear the stuff we signed up for? absolutely. Will be do weird things like use rescue on each other as a gag? most likely. Ive even been accused of being a bot before by 1 rando while the other 3 were myself and two friends, completely chatting in real time in discord on a simple dungeon run before, because i was not typing the entire time in in game chat, or at all.
TLR = you're absolutely right