FF14 and toxic positivity

[Skiros]

Original thread here

Lately with the boom of popularity that the game has had, I feel that (enforced) toxic positivity is becoming more and more widespread both in game as well as in many communities outside the game.

People can't complain or point out flaws with certain aspects of the game without being told to shut up or being called trolls.

Especially in-game in the novice network, dear god is that a cesspool of ego. Anything but praise and awe is shouted down.

What are your thought about this? Do you feel it's a thing or did I just get unlucky and see a lot of bad interactions lately?

What do you guys think?

I think they're spot-on!

[BaconBits]

I wish the word toxic would die a gruesome death. It's worse than "literally" now.

[Kolaina]

Original thread here



What do you guys think?

I think they're spot-on!

Saying anything negative about the game seems to have people react as if it’s a personal attack on themselves

[SturmChurro]

Saying anything negative about the game seems to have people react as if it’s a personal attack on themselves

Yep, people tie their own identity with that of this game and the community, so in turn any criticism of it is a criticism of them. It would be hard to find a much more tribalistic community than what can be found here.

[Plasma711]

Yep, people tie their own identity with that of this game and the community, so in turn any criticism of it is a criticism of them. It would be hard to find a much more tribalistic community than what can be found here.

Every single gaming community is tribalistic to the max. You see it no matter where you go. Mobile games, fps games. In twitch chat or on twitter. If you make an observation that points out a flaw in someones favorite video game, you're personally attacking them and their entire life. Its sadly not just XIV.

[Kes13a]

another low quality troll bait thread. please stop feeding

[Kranel_San]

another low quality troll bait thread. please stop feeding

You have just proved the claim made by the original poster to be true.
Can we stop calling people as trolls and discuss a bit more seriously? Even WoW folk doesn't do that when someone wants to say something.

[Arazehl]

You have just proved the claim made by the original poster to be true.
Can we stop calling people as trolls and discuss a bit more seriously? Even WoW folk doesn't do that when someone wants to say something.

I think that there are some posters that thrive on positive or negative attention. Either one will do. No attention is what they can't abide by. This topic has been posted so many times, in so many ways because it gives the OP what they seek. It's people like you they rely on. Your reply to the other post of this same thread, calling it troll bait isn't so far from the truth.

[Carin-Eri]

another low quality troll bait thread. please stop feeding

Yeah, even as someone new to the forum I'm seeing a pattern here

[aveyond-dreams]

There are valid critiques as to how the game handles a variety of things, from the 2018-2019 era of troubles that saw the introduction of limited jobs followed by limited races, to Shadowbringers making the decision to frontload with crafter and gather content as opposed to battle content, leading to a drought once covid hit, to Endwalker's hit or miss story beats.

Having been here since day 1 of ARR I'm a big fan, but I'm also not going to ignore serious flaws as they arise.