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

[suplejou]

This game has other "people" and a "community"? I wouldn't know since I have played this game single player for like 3-4 years now .

Every community has bad fruit. Take the real ones, discard the people you don't enjoy and thrive on Warrior of Light.

[Burmecia]

This thread just made me think of the thing above.

[Rinhi]

This thread just made me think of the thing above.

people were having a civil discussion about various aspects of the community and experiences of it, but apparently that was worth removing? nothing that was said by anyone that took part in it was against the rules, there was no name calling, no one was insulted, people were just writing their experiences and/or observations down
though, one could certainly argue that one of the mentioned aspects of the community is either very report happy when directly mentioned or worse, the moderation wants people to not talk about it a la reddit

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

people were having a civil discussion about various aspects of the community and experiences of it, but apparently that was worth removing? nothing that was said by anyone that took part in it was against the rules, there was no name calling, no one was insulted, people were just writing their experiences and/or observations down
though, one could certainly argue that one of the mentioned aspects of the community is either very report happy when directly mentioned or worse, the moderation wants people to not talk about it a la reddit

I don't know that I'd say it was completely civil, there's a lot of disingenuous posts in this thread, from people saying how bad the community is and people saying the community has no issues.

The reality is that people on the forums are much more vocal and opinionated than people in game, and most experiences in game will be positive. Very few members of the community visit outside of game media, so their impressions tend to be on the positive end. Hence all the "Wow, the XIV community is great" posts you see on places like reddit.

As I said before, the communities opinion on itself is like reviews. Peoples viewpoints will trend the impressions one way or another, and XIVs is seen as mostly positive.

There seems to be a lot of people on here who think anyone having a positive view of the game/community/devs are white knights or shills or w/e, and there is another subset who think anyone who dislikes the game apparently came from WoW and should leave.

Both groups are equally terrible to deal with.

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

The reality is that people on the forums are much more vocal and opinionated than people in game, and most experiences in game will be positive.

Yeah, this is a weird phenomenon.
Personally, I haven't had too many bad experiences in game either, and people I know on NA DCs are having a good time, too.

I believe it has to do with burnout. Some people are just jaded after a long time of XIV, and they don't follow YP's advice of taking time off and playing something else. They cling to XIV despite being unhappy, then take it to the forums.

[Burmecia]

people were having a civil discussion about various aspects of the community and experiences of it, but apparently that was worth removing?

Hi, just to be little clearer. I reported no one and read the thread very loosely, got nothing against this thread. It is cool that we are talking about this when the playerbase is growing.
I think my very original esoteric point was that: yeah, I believe the ff14 community is reasonably friendly for online game community, claim of friendliness and openness is nor lie but not 100% truth in every situation always, either. As should be expected. We are just people after all.

[Verethyl]

AMEN !!! Especially the MENTORS, It's great when you ask a question and you either get a question in reply, a nonsensical reply or it's just plain ignored. THEN when you reply in kind you get attacked by everyone else.

[Maxilor]

AMEN !!! Especially the MENTORS, It's great when you ask a question and you either get a question in reply, a nonsensical reply or it's just plain ignored. THEN when you reply in kind you get attacked by everyone else.

I always figured the meme of 'Mentor Bad' was just people being bitter but when you go into a dungeon and me the sprout have to explain the fight's mechanics to someone with a Crown, you know the system is dumb.

[MilkieTea]

I always figured the meme of 'Mentor Bad' was just people being bitter but when you go into a dungeon and me the sprout have to explain the fight's mechanics to someone with a Crown, you know the system is dumb.

I'd cut some slack ahah. There are 77 dungeons, 14 guildhests, 74 trials and 101 raids. To be expected to remember every single mechanic of these fights on the spot when they might not even be something you've done in months to years, is absolutely ludicrous.

[Izscha]

It will always amuse me when someone say that about this community, i always assume they're in their little bubble with 2-3 ppl max and have no idea how the community is.
Most ppl on this game are fakes and snakes, nothing more than that.
They will be kind and nice as a a front, but when i look at all the bs going on everywhere, ppl doing anything to spread gossip about ppl they dont like, ppl who would grief if you dont play the way they want you to play, push what THEY and only THEY believe is right on you and you have nothing to say about it and so on.
Sure no one will call you names right away they can't, everybody knows that but insults aren't the only way to be toxic.