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

[Lauront]

I feel this is due to 14's story playing into this kind of fan. No stakes and everything works out. Shameful really, they waste a solid world to the altar of the redditor masses.

Unfortunately that seems to be the case. Plus there's a lot of people on reddit who get really angry if you criticise certain fan faves and then the supposedly non-toxic community bares its teeth. I've got rather thick skin, so I just ignore it, but it does amuse me when people claim this game's community is not toxic - maybe most players aren't, but it certainly has its own vocal portions... including people who brag about how "wholesome" said community is.

[Caurcas]

Unfortunately that seems to be the case. Plus there's a lot of people on reddit who get really angry if you criticise certain fan faves and then the supposedly non-toxic community bares its teeth. I've got rather thick skin, so I just ignore it, but it does amuse me when people claim this game's community is not toxic - maybe most players aren't, but it certainly has its own vocal portions... including people who brag about how "wholesome" said community is.

14's "community" feels more like Tumblr personified by the day.

[Shin96]

14's "community" feels more like Tumblr personified by the day.

It's just a bunch of jannies and marxist communists anyway. Who cares about 'em. These are the type of people to start a witch hunt if you disagree simply by opinion.

That's your mob. They've basically infested this community like an invasive species. Just take a look what they supported a few months ago to know what kind of people represent the overall majority in this game.

That said, I've never been interested in this supposed "wholesome" community. I've met a bunch of interesting individuals in my time but it's far from the rule.

[Rinhi]

if you browse r/talesfromDF

everyone that thinks this community is nothing but nice should read that place, just to see how many of those 'nice' players are super toxic

[linayar]

everyone that thinks this community is nothing but nice

What about those who think this community is nice enough?

If the community is super toxic, you wouldn't need a special place to collect bad experiences. It will just be the norm of what people expect.

[LittleImp]

everyone that thinks this community is nothing but nice should read that place, just to see how many of those 'nice' players are super toxic

That subreddit is an interesting place because the toxicity comes from all angles. There's examples of toxicity in the chatlogs and stories, but there's also an insane amount of toxicity in the comments coming from the people who browse it for validation as well. It's a weird space where both genuine elitism and genuine toxic casualism are constantly on full display, and is basically a great place to see some of the worst aspects of the community in their natural habitat. A nightmare zone where you'll see phrases like "You pull it you tank it" and "Low orange parse" within 5 minutes of eachother haha.

[foussi]

People in the community tend to be so positive that its toxic, as in if you criticize something and they go for your skin.

Still thinking about what happened to scottzone

[Axxion]

People in the community tend to be so positive that its toxic, as in if you criticize something and they go for your skin.

Still thinking about what happened to scottzone

welcome to the cult of XIV. we have snicker doodles. several types of layer cakes. Your official moogle cloak will arrive in the mail tomorrow.

In xiv, like you said we do have positive toxicity, we also have causal/hard toxicity.

[Kozh]

Neither do you, and yet that's what you try to do every time you say someone who sends a death threat is representative of the community.

Because they're part of the community?? They're ffxiv players who are active in ffxiv platforms. Everyone has equal parts in representing the community.

Using you logic, no community is toxic because they can just say "no no, that person break the TOS/toxic, they're not with us". Pretty convenient I'd say.

[Necrogen]

Because they're part of the community?? They're ffxiv players who are active in ffxiv platforms. Everyone has equal parts in representing the community.

Using you logic, no community is toxic because they can just say "no no, that person break the TOS/toxic, they're not with us". Pretty convenient I'd say.

Every community has toxicity. Theres not much you can do but report and block and perhaps they get banned from the game.