Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
Sure, but are you ascribing that behavior to (and therefore criticizes) to those individuals or the community as a whole? Because it seems, there are people who would do the latter.

When people say this game has a great community, do you think those behaviors are what they're applauding? If not, then any exception you may point about the community is just that, exceptions.

So, yes, we can agree that people can take anything (like or dislike toward something) too far, and people can still say this game's community is great or nice or the best, and they wouldn't be contradictory statements.

This behavior is heavily, albeit maybe inadvertently, encouraged by widespread community attitudes.

A lot of online content for this game revolves around bashing other games. If you look at the top FFXIV reddit posts from this year, the top two are about WoW. There are many more wow-related memes in the top 20, almost all of them being overwhelmingly negative. I've also seen content reach the front page mocking New World, and basically any other MMO that has launched during FFXIVs lifespan. Just look at how frequently threads about other games are created in this forum, even though it's usually totally irrelevant to 14.

I've never been in another gaming community that relied so heavily on bashing other games, and the people who enjoy them, for content. Maybe back in like 2010 with the whole CoD vs Battlefield thing?

Quote Originally Posted by linayar View Post
For me, it's so tiring when people are too cynical about other people's enjoyment of something, be it a game or a community.
Try mentioning that you play New World, World of Warcraft, or League of Legends into basically any public chat on 14 and see what happens.