I don't like FFXIV's community

[Deveryn]

They're from Crystal, but I wonder if they decided to check the other DCs. Oh well. They left. Life goes on.

[Cach]

Someone forgot to put up tank stance at the start of a dungeon or something, uh?
I'll grant OP one thing, I experienced more salty banter in the ARR days than in the rest of expansions put together.

At any rate we have only our personal experiences to share, so that doesn't really mean we hold the whole truth.

[Myrany]

*checks OP's server*

If Crystal DC is that bad, then no wonder nobody goes to it.

It isn't that bad. I have probably only had encounters with 5 toxic people in 4 years on Crystal.

[Jojoya]

crystal dc is where all the erpers and snowflakes go. it is literally the festering hole of the NA servers.

I've experienced more crap on Aether than I've experienced on Crystal despite not playing on Aether as often.

And part of why I left Primal (where I was when I first started playing) because of the toxicity I had been encountering there.

Crystal is fine.

The problem isn't the data center or even the game. The problem is a tiny percentage of people who choose to be hostile over stupid stuff. But you'll find those people in any online multiplayer game and most of those communities are far worse than this one.

I can wish the OP luck but if he's that sensitive to this community he might as well give up online gaming.

[Shougun]

It's so strange, because I was having a discussion on another forum about how the endgame scene of FFXIV can be extremely toxic and off-putting to people. Dungeons, though? I haven't seen anything more the some passive aggression in Aurum Vale. They're generally way too easy to cause someone to tantrum at a poor sprout.

Confirmation bias, or what have you, but there are several primary reasons I deliberately play casually for all MMOs (I don't think this is exclusive to FFXIV).. and personally I find unless you're with a close knit group of friends that the 'late' game content just produces stress and 'work' for something that I should be relaxing to (imo). Having done 'hard' content I've no doubt if I had the group and time I could do it, but if someone was like "do you want to?" the answer is a hard no thanks.

I've seen lazy behavior in all content, like leeching in alliance content or pvp to failing horribly to learn / attend to mechanics that wipe the group, but in terms of anger and large amounts of stress- particularly from others? Almost exclusively that 'hard' content.

Hard content is fun, but I don't think you can get me to want to do it in an MMO unless it was part of my job duty... like for bug / quality testing with coworkers or if I was streaming or something. Otherwise I'll take my 'hard' in single player content or things that have Elden Ring like structure.

Not that I'm saying purge all the hard stuff, I think it's good for those people who need that (though I also appreciate SE, later when it's no longer 'current', making it accessible to me too lol).

[Jennah]

By the way, it's a great community.

[george357]

well i have lived on ceurl sence arr and have been very happy to be part of it i stay away from savage too crazy and too toxic the rest is fine.

[Vatom]

I've experienced more crap on Aether than I've experienced on Crystal despite not playing on Aether as often

Don’t judge me lol

[Jojoya]

Don’t judge me lol

I'm not judging you or anyone else on Aether specifically.

The vast majority of players are good, decent people who just want to have fun playing a game.

But damn the toxic BS I encounterd on my Siren alt, especially in the Novice Network when the character was still in it, was out of control. Some of what was going on in that Novice Network was worse than anything I've ever seen passing by the Quicksands on Balmung.

[Imora]

John Gabriel's Greater Internet F**kwad Theory has stood almost as long as the MMO scene itself.

This.

This was my forum sig on the wow forums til they removed them.