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

[Breakbeat]

I completely disagree. I have also been here since July, and you and I have been playing in the same sandbox. I've had no impetus to have an argument.

You seem angry, and you and I are the only variables in such a vastly different experience.

Look within for the answer.

I had a "contest" going on the WoW forums for the better part of ten years, whereby if someone would group up with me and personally show me a fair amount of uninvited toxicity, I would then buy them anywhere from 1-3 months of game time, depending on how much random toxicity they could show me, and how intense the toxicity was.

Don't believe me? Google 'Breakbeat site:us.forums.blizzard.com toxic group "game time"' and you can see for yourself.

I never had a single taker, not one, over ten years. Why? Logically, because people jump on forums in the heat of the moment and misrepresent the amount of negativity they're receiving, and inflate their tales about how bad things are. Folks are negative themselves and then try to invent stories about how bad others are.

This is one of the better ones, TBH. "Deafening silence is passive-agressive." Uh-huh. Perhaps inside your head, everything is passive-agressive? Nevermind that perhaps folks just weren't talking? Perhaps they felt it better not to light fires near a powder keg? Silence is silence. If you're disturbed in your head, I guess everything will come off as passive-agressive.

I'm leaning strongly towards opening up my contest to folks here on the FFXIV forums. I want so much to group up with someone pushing this 'toxicity agenda', run things with them, join random groups, see no toxicity, and report all about it back here.

Ain't no one winning game time from me, because there simply isn't that kind of pervasive, random toxicity here. Still on the edge of opening up the offer, though.