Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[Veis_Alveare]

I'm sorry but I have to disagree with your use of term oversensitive. There is never an excuse for attacking people over a semi-ironic comment (because granted your comment can be taken both ways even if you didn't mean it in an ironic way—you could have said "please avoid standing on the fire" for example). I would say there is never an excuse for any kind of abuse and he is clearly abusive. Being abusive is not because someone is oversensitive. There are other reasons and the situation is different.

Being oversensitive is usually something that leads people to clam down rather than lash out at others. Depending on the sensitivity people do different things but I've never met an oversensitive person lashing abusively at others when their sensitivity triggers.

I see that literally all the time.

Like, not to get too far outside the game here, oversensitive people who are offended by minor things is kind of one of the defining cultural phenomena of the past decade or so. It's only ramping up even more as time goes on. Cancel culture is a product of this.

A really great youtuber named Natalie Wynne was basically bullied off Twitter for daring to have someone people didn't like voice act in one of her videos and for some comments that, if you squint really hard and have sand in your eyes, could be seen as the tiniest bit inconsiderate towards non-binary people. Never mind that she's trans herself, or that she's done worlds of good online for trans acceptance and all that. People got a little bit offended and were breaking out the guillotines.

Offense can be sadness but petty offense is often more akin to anger. If something hits you emotionally hard enough to make you cry you might close up for a bit, but if it hits you emotionally and also not that hard it'll likely just piss you off.

Edit: Also, no one should have to tell someone (much less ask them) to not stand in fire. It's a video game. That should be clear. There's no way to turn off the effect so they had to see it, plus it had killed them previously. At that point you don't need a please you need a bucket of cold water to the face... both to wake you up and because you're literally on fire, Brenda.