To the people suggesting that the game is no better than others, that the community is just afraid of being punished... I think that's a jaundiced point of view.

The community is a reflection of the attitudes of the developers. This community is influenced by the models of humility and group cohesion that are set forth by the production of XIV. They have brought us in under a message of unity. They have given us an in-depth story. These are two metrics that, if you overlook their impact on a gaming culture, you are are either showing your bias or showing your ignorance.

Nextly, people in this game value their accounts well before the TOS was clarified; they generally go about in behavior because they want to be model citizens. Some people are simply like that, believe it or not. Some people are not inclined to sit around thinking of how to break the rules, but rather how to follow them. Shocking to some to read this, I know!

The final major aspect to why this community is better than the others, is because our characters and our time in this game has actual value. Unlike people who have wasted nearly two decades farming a trash fire game by a company whose developers constantly sow deliberate turmoil in their audience, this game has value. A large swath of the rule-following community of this game feels deeply invested in their character, their glamours, their progress. The many thousands of instances of cleared content. It's not work nor progress they want to lose. They did the mental calculation to be good citizens and not put all of the things that make them happy at risk many years ago, well before the rules were clarified.

If a game is fun, and the developers desire unity and harmony in a community, there will be a noteworthy difference in the overall happiness and tolerance in the community.

FFXIV is legendary for being extremely less toxic than other large games. It is one of the first things every major pundit to jump over from WOW has noticed about it.

Yes, there are toxic people everywhere. So what? FFXIV hits different, and the proof is in all of the media talking about how it hits different.