Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Yeah, it has happened to a number of people who attempted to role-play a Garlean or some other form of antagonist. Even people portraying defectors are targeted at times. The game seems to have a large number of individuals who see their character as 'themselves' and as such act like anything in opposition to their self insert is the worst, most brutal thing ever to exist.

I stopped bothering with the FFXIV Reddit altogether simply because a single mention of anyone liking the Ascians or the Garleans has a habit of devolving into accusations of those people being 'terrible people'. I can only assume there's a lot of people playing this game who do not realise that fictional characters are just that - fictional.

It sucks a lot of the fun out of the game, though I've found things are much calmer over on the European servers for what that is worth.
Tbh i try to avoid the RP community as much as possible because that's really not my thing, but the few thing i did see did prove me that indeed some do really take this stuff way too seriously and would have no problem harassing someone else over it.
And i do get why ppl would like the ascien or garlean, even in this game they do show countless time that it's far from being just "good vs bad" type of things.
Even then, if you want to be a villain as a RP who the heck are they to harass you over it lol
I really dont get it, that's the point of role playing, and not everyone wants to be the good guy, we need villains in our stories not the generic "i'm op and too good to everyone" kind of characters.
Hope you won't have much problem with this kind of ppl, if that's what you enjoy go ahead.
And reddit yikes really i can't stand it, even ppl on this forum are more open minded than most there and it says a lot.