Lets talk about the FFXIV player base..

[linayar]

Yeah, I really don't get why people think the WoW community is ultra toxic while praising this one. The only thing I can figure is that toxicity in this game is often very passive aggressive, while in WoW it's just ordinary aggressive aggressive. Both games in my experience have always been filled with the standard array of MMO players, and FFXIV is noticeably more WoW-like these days than it was back in ARR.

Someone being "passive aggressive," depending on how they go about doing it, can be ignored more easily than someone being directly aggressive. The latter creates a more apparent toxic environment for the entire group.

If you go by the example just above, saying "great DPS" when you don't really mean it can be taken as a real compliment by the other side. So that would actually add to the idea of FFXIV's community being great rather than toxic.