Yeah, that was it. It was the dirty smelly elitist parsers who took WOW down. It wasn't Blizzard's awful office environment. Or their exploitative tedious game design. Or lackluster story. Or borrowed power systems. Or tone-deaf executives.

It was the parsing.

Toxic casuals are the worst part of FFXIV's community, and they prove it with their proud ignorance and Puritanical hatred of information every day.