"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[Kewitt]

I always try to be open and nice except when I'm not!

[gumas]

it is open and friendly at least way much more than wow from my view. but if you come expecting to get red carpet, applause and cheer on every corner, then iam afraid you are way on the cloud nine up there lol.

[IdowhatIwant]

I will be honest this community is extremely toxic and anyone that disagrees with that is being disingenuous. People report each other for the most petty things, specially in these forums. A lot players take criticism about this game as a personal attack against them. It can be off putting at times and can ruin the enjoyment of the game when you are worried about talking to anyone in game as they may report you. It sucks for a lot of new players, I think youtubers and streamers make this games community sound way better than it really is.

[Vortuna]

It's like people claiming Warframe has a great community when it absolutely doesn't.

[Shin96]

A lot players take criticism about this game as a personal attack against them.

That is what happens when you substitute an entire personality around a company product. Many such people nowdays. Incredibly sad.

[ApolloGenX]

I can only speak to my experience.... and that has been positive. That isn't to say I haven't run into rude people... but as a whole, people have been much nicer and more upbeat.

I don't know if there are large differences among various servers or data centers.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I will be honest this community is extremely toxic and anyone that disagrees with that is being disingenuous. People report each other for the most petty things, specially in these forums. A lot players take criticism about this game as a personal attack against them. It can be off putting at times and can ruin the enjoyment of the game when you are worried about talking to anyone in game as they may report you. It sucks for a lot of new players, I think youtubers and streamers make this games community sound way better than it really is.

I disagree.
And before you or anybody sits there and calls me Disingenuous, let me tell you that Im not a Streamer or a Paid Actor, and that Ive been playing this game for 5-6 Years; coming in Mid Heavensward, and the only times I have ever had ANY back interactions in this game, is in Current High-End Raiding (Alexander at the Time) the Very Rare Jerkwad that you will run into during a duty, and some of the Trolls or just generally bad people on these Forums.
If I were to combine Every Bad Egg Ive run into, it is still a Drop in the Bucket compared to the Thousands of Nice and Helpful People Ive run into, and have had Outrageously Hilarious Interactions with.
There are Patient people who will help you and guide you through content and even Farms. There are people who arn't as Patient and will say you are wasting their time and will spite Venom and Curse your name. Guess what...both these things happen in Real Life to!
And unless your literally in a Safespace your whole life, there is not a SINGLE person that will Honestly tell you that FFXIV is Perfect; from its game or its Community.
For every good there is Bad.
And That, Is, Normal.

The reality is that we all will have different experiences for various reasons. You can't call it a lie just because you had a different Experience; which can be the result of many different things that You experienced.
My Experience my Whole FFXIV Career has been 95% Positive, while barley 5% has been terrible.
I think this game has an INCREDIBLE community. And I love that many streamers & youtubers especially coming from WoW get to Experience the Fun this game has to offer and what it allows to Create that Fun.

Its hard to get in trouble or get into fights...if you arn't looking for it.
But hey, such is life you'll run into a jerk. Move on, there are great People out there.
Just like IRL.

[ApolloGenX]

Nobody's told me to kill myself yet.
Or kicked me from a roulette for playing a certain job.
Or told me my entire family should be diddled and murdered because I tagged a mob.

Beats WoW imo.

OMG. I was both horrified and laughed so hard. "Diddled". Now I wonder how I would react if someone said something so awful to me, but used the word "diddled"....

[Asari5]

toxic.... eh? you are aware that nowadys pretty much everything is toxic as soon as someone doesnt like something about something? its way overused.
and just because there are some people who are unpatient or dont want to have weak players in his group doesnt mean the community is toxic or not even bad

[Snorky]

I disagree.
And before you or anybody sits there and calls me Disingenuous, let me tell you that Im not a Streamer or a Paid Actor, and that Ive been playing this game for 5-6 Years; coming in Mid Heavensward, and the only times I have ever had ANY back interactions in this game, is in Current High-End Raiding (Alexander at the Time) the Very Rare Jerkwad that you will run into during a duty, and some of the Trolls or just generally bad people on these Forums.
If I were to combine Every Bad Egg Ive run into, it is still a Drop in the Bucket compared to the Thousands of Nice and Helpful People Ive run into, and have had Outrageously Hilarious Interactions with.
There are Patient people who will help you and guide you through content and even Farms. There are people who arn't as Patient and will say you are wasting their time and will spite Venom and Curse your name. Guess what...both these things happen in Real Life to!
And unless your literally in a Safespace your whole life, there is not a SINGLE person that will Honestly tell you that FFXIV is Perfect; from its game or its Community.
For every good there is Bad.
And That, Is, Normal.

The reality is that we all will have different experiences for various reasons. You can't call it a lie just because you had a different Experience; which can be the result of many different things that You experienced.
My Experience my Whole FFXIV Career has been 95% Positive, while barley 5% has been terrible.
I think this game has an INCREDIBLE community. And I love that many streamers & youtubers especially coming from WoW get to Experience the Fun this game has to offer and what it allows to Create that Fun.

Its hard to get in trouble or get into fights...if you arn't looking for it.
But hey, such is life you'll run into a jerk. Move on, there are great People out there.
Just like IRL.

^^ This is how I feel. There are millions of subscribers to this game I would be surprised if a person never had a problem at one time or other with another person. On the other hand, 95% of my time since seriously starting has been positive and the rest of the negative has been mostly on this forum. Someone reported me for typing two letters that can be taken for a abbreviation for a swear but I was actually replying to someone whose name was those two letters. I got a two week suspension because I used someone's characters first name. The game is fine these forums have become foul.