Quote Originally Posted by Ronduwil View Post
I agree with what you said, but for me, the far bigger problem was the long-running trend of incorporating more and more elitism into the system. This game actually rewards you for running content with first-time players while farming your endgame gear currency. WoW actively penalizes you for it. They've gone above and beyond this past year, going so far as to incorporate a rating system for your character into the game to make it even easier for players in the game to exclude each other from their runs. As long as WoW continues to double down on that trend, they're going to continue to decline, and FFXIV will continue to ascend simply by having the same type of end game gearing system that WoW had at the peak of its success.

For me, it all boils down to the vast discrepancy between the two game directors' philosophies.
You are a fool if you don't think FF14 players in raiding don't do this as well.

The biggest difference is how different the TOS is and how its enforced, the FF14 playerbase is known to be trigger happy with reports for even minor things.