Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[Gemina]

Is it just me or the players here are kinda sensitive and also not that good? Been playing the game since last fall and what I am noticing is that the players playing the game are not that good and they get easily butthurt when being criticized? Are all of these people just new to the genre or something? I've played many mmorpg games in my life and this one got me scratching my head sometime.

It's not a FFXIV thing. The over sensitivity of current western (perhaps global) culture is attributed to a whole lot more than what we should probably go into here. But in short yes, a lot of people these days are self-entitled, overly privileged, easily triggered snowflakes. No one ever slapped the spoon out of their mouth when they went for pudding first before the main entre.

As for not being all that good, it doesn't have to do with them being new to the genre so much as they are just lazy. I can accept players being bad if they are trying AND also improving. This tells me that they at least care about putting in an effort and don't want to hold the group back. Some of it does have to do with the 'everyone gets a ribbon' approach to job and encounter design. Many jobs and encounters are continuously simplified for the sake of accessibility. While this is a lucrative technique for the purpose of marketing the product, it is horrendous to what it does to the quality of the playerbase. I assure you this playerbase is far more toxic than it was when I started back in 2015. Granted, the majority of it can be found in echo and hive chambers rather than in game, but the consequences for misbehavior are also much less severe there opposed to in the game.

[RajNish]

But in short yes, a lot of people these days are self-entitled, overly privileged, easily triggered snowflakes.

And, unfortunately, it works both ways. People who think of themselves as professionals, confident that only for this reason they can be rude. And beginners who deny any advice and instantly fall into enrage. Better to spend half an hour crafting instead of spoiling the fun.