I don't like FFXIV's community

[NekoMataMata]

The community is overstated way too often. Seriously the general community(although forums are the opposite) love to make this place out to be some sort of online utopia when in reality it's kind of average?

Something I really don't like though is how every little group on FFXIV seems to actually dislike each other. It'd be one thing if there was just rpers not being interested in raids or raiders not being interested in story or anything like that, but outside the forums, in discords and on reddit I often see people who will ask for the removal of stuff they're not interested in. There's no tolerance at all. It's not enough to just not interact with something.

[Darthgummibear]

Every online gaming community in existence has some of these people, but you are making it out to seem like that's the majority of the community which is most certainly is not. I pug almost exclusively and the overwhelming majority of my interactions with people have been positive.

That's not say the community is perfect, no community is. But it's leagues better here than other places like the cesspit otherwise known as WoW.

[Bukachu]

Edit : is it a new trend to yell on FF community ? 'Cause in the French community, a lot of people complain about it, but they all seem to enjoy being a special snowflake more than anything else.

French community complaining? Nah... that could never be true :O

[LisSquid]

Edit : is it a new trend to yell on FF community ? 'Cause in the French community, a lot of people complain about it, but they all seem to enjoy being a special snowflake more than anything else.

(I'll slap a cheese on the head of the first person who tells me that it's normal for the French community to complain).

That's actually really enlightening, because you'll hear "NA complain the most" a lot around here.

I think the GCBTW meme got too strong, and when people encounter an interaction that could be read in any way as negative it's warped into this ultra-slight against them. Kind of like how a tiny black splotch is most prominent in a pure white room. FFXIV has an illusion of the perfect community, but we're all just people, and not all people get along.

[RyuDragnier]

*checks OP's server*

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

[Silver-Strider]

Name a community that isn't filled with a-holes in some capacity. Literally impossible to do.

High School, Church, place of employment, there is always the same type of people that make any community terrible by association.

10 years is a long time to not grow completely desensitized to the garbage people of this community so I'm going to take it something happened and OP is just lashing out at everyone, like Flanders did in that one episode of the Simpsons.

[Irenia]

I haven't seen people want the removal of something; just for the devs to stop focusing on certain things they deem as unimportant.

But that's usually because of a selfish desire to make the game better for themselves; it's less hatred and more that they don't care about other sub communities as long as they get what they want.

Of course this does bring conflict in when two communities advocate for their content to be favored over others. Or if two flavors of content clash.

In the end, it's not just enough to not interact with the thing. People need to understand and be at peace with the fact that the stuff they like the most may not get as much focus as they like since FFXIV gaze shifts all the time.

[Striker44]

Trying to generalize any one person's anecdotal experience to an entire community is unlikely to end well. If I were to try doing the same with mine, it would be the polar opposite. My group experience is mainly with random people in DF, and in ~7 years of playing I can still probably count on one hand the number of toxic people I've encountered. I'm also on Gilgamesh, which is a larger server, and I never see the chat stuff mentioned by the OP (maybe that's a Balmung-specific thing?).

What I do encounter are a lot of people relaxing, chatting, and having fun. Maybe it's because I don't care for extremes and savages, which by their nature tend to funnel the cesspools of any community. But the community I've come across throughout these years has been very positive.

[Rolder50]

5. From Coils, to Alexander, to Omega, there and so on. Extremes as well and Savages. You'll find more and more unsavory people cursing at each other and they don't get banned. Telling people to quit the game.

6. You got people screaming at novices cause they don't know every mechanic before a fight in a basic 4 man leveling dungeon cause they are so tired of farming tomes they take it out on others.

I have straight up never seen either of these happen. Am I just lucky, or...?

[BluexBird]

Hey!

Hey buddy! Yeah, I'm talking to you.

Come to Jenova. Your problems will go away.