Quote Originally Posted by Kaylal View Post
These 46 (so far) pages tell me that FFXIV has the same issues as other games when people with different ideas of "how the game should be played" end up in the same group. You get toxicity. And this is why I'm so uncomfortable doing group content. My personality type is that I don't handle confrontations well at all. If I don't group with others, I don't have to face that possibility, so when a game *requires* group content to continue the story line, I get all hesitant and have to pluck up the courage to dive into DF to get the dungeon done.
I have not been to your server, but I know the one that I am on is relatively okay. A smattering of different people. For the most part it is not bad, there is always that one occasion that may cause me to sigh heavily, but those are usually few and far in between the good stuffs. You could be playing with anyone and have luck different than my own, so unsure if 'toxic elitism' is something you should be worried about. I have gotten maybe two of those my whole time playing, and one was yelling at the sprout healers in the duty for the first time to lb3 because they were on the floor the entire battle, so we could not make the dps check. There they were though, on the floor, getting angry, but there is not much you could do than tell them to chill out, and if not vote kick if they do not rapid pull as a black mage in Titania. The other was someone telling people to watch a youtube guide and read a wiki, but they were shot down super fast by the rest of the raid group because they were being a jerk to people who just wished for a quick primer for mechanics on their first time.

The rest of my experiences have been fine, you will get some odd people sometimes, or silent people. I think most of the super elitists have been told to stop being jerks and gtfo at least in my datacenter. If someone seems like they are being rude or acting horribly other will tell them to tone it down, or stop being an idiot. They usually go and hide in their caves after this and never resurface.

Quote Originally Posted by Tithian View Post
You should understand that the people frequenting the forums and the experiences they describe typically do not represent the attitude and experience of the average player.
Aye, I suppose it could depend on your luck or datacenter, but most posts bring out the worst, and some use it to vent about horrible experiences as an outlet. Most of the time if your by your lonesome it feels better to speak with others and vent rather than scream into a pillow and shout at the clouds >.<