The Official Forums is an EXTREMELY poor example of a "Good Community"

[ZephyrMenodora]

These forums are filled with some of the worst people I've seen in gaming communities. And I play League of Legends regularly.

[SlouchyBard]

Oh I agree my comparison isn't much a comparison as it is two completely different solar systems. I do however feel people can just take the moral of "Don't take everything so personally but if you do just discuss the issue and then move on rather than...just get completely absorbed in it".

That's why I dont try to hold grudges or get mad over little things. I'm not gonna let one person ruin my day. No way, Jose.

There are 1440 minutes in a day. How they want to spend it is on them. Me, I am gonna be happy and no one can take that from me.

[Midareyukki]

These forums are filled with some of the worst people I've seen in gaming communities. And I play League of Legends regularly.

I play Teemo!!

Ok technically I play Rengar, but I do like making people mald just by seeing me exist as Teemo.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I play Teemo!!

Ok technically I play Rengar, but I do like making people mald just by seeing me exist as Teemo.

ROFL! I actually do play Teemo. Nearing 400K mastery on him. Just yesterday someone said they were reporting me because I Teemo-laughed when they tried to kill me and died. (For those who don't play. Teemo is a despised character who 90% of players will try to kill before anyone else on the screen no matter what is happening).

[Renalt]

I play Teemo!!

Ok technically I play Rengar, but I do like making people mald just by seeing me exist as Teemo.

ROFL! I actually do play Teemo. Nearing 400K mastery on him. Just yesterday someone said they were reporting me because I Teemo-laughed when they tried to kill me and died. (For those who don't play. Teemo is a despised character who 90% of players will try to kill before anyone else on the screen no matter what is happening).

I uh...also played Teemo back when I played.

No regrets.

[NekoMataMata]

It's online forums, what do you expect?
People either come here for lore/mechanics discussion, or they come here to complain about whatever grievances they have with the game, and the latter is far more common.

If you want 'community' then you want to play the actual game, or join some of the discords built around it.

Issue with that is that you'll get flayed alive if you criticize the game even remotely in most FFXIV discords. Usually in the fashion of a couple handfuls worth of people coming out to disagree and reprimand you for your opinion before agreeing with each other over and over again or ranting about how you or anyone else could ever feel that way before a server moderator DMs you about the mess you've apparently created.

I realize the forums is the exact opposite sometimes but... Some people just want to be around people that have actual balanced opinions and can tolerate others to a degree. It's a small sacrifice to make for being able to chat about the game freely.

[Kalania]

Sorry I'm having a heard time putting the thoughts and feelings into words so I may get off track.

Anyway people feel SO strongly about things and passion is good but you gotta leave out the hate. None of us are special. What one likes someone else is gonna hate and that's just the way things are going to be. If there is a middle ground I'm sure they are trying to get that up and running. You guys just somehow react as if you have been personally WRONGED and you just hold grudges. I UNDERSTAND that feeling. It feels good to be angry and feel validated in your rage. I've been there. However let me tell you from experience...Rage has a cost and I'm going to tell you what I paid.

Decades ago when I was 18 I had a big fight with my family. My other specifically and I heard what most have probably heard before..."You live under our house, so you live under our rules". Well I said "Understandable. Goodbye" and I left. I was so angry at them ( sorry not going into the why ) and I moved out of state and as far away as possible. I didn't say a WORD to them for years. People in my hometown actually thought I was dead because I popped smoke and vanished with no word and that's the way I wanted it. I wanted to punish them for what they did and I felt JUSTIFIED in my anger. However years go by and my aunt tracked me down while I was at work...

"Renalt. Your mother is dead. Please come home."

I was still angry. I told them I was busy at work and couldn't be bothered with things. So they left. It wasn't until like another 2 years when I reconciled with my family and paid them a visit. I just got home and I was on the couch and for the most part it was exactly the same house. "Oh hey that's a nice vase. When did you get that?" "I got it when your mother died".

Your situation is the reason why I do not cut off my mother; my parents and I (more my mother and I) do not really see eye to eye. My mother is disdainful of my choices in life; my choice to be a traditional wife and mother instead of going to college and working a unfulfilling job. I've thought many times of moving but I'd never actually fully cut her off, even though many would say I should. Kin and Kith, it's an important thing.

Btw I had a cousin who committed suicide. We lived so far from family though; if I had known; I wish I had reached out to him, been a friend at least.

[Midareyukki]

ROFL! I actually do play Teemo. Nearing 400K mastery on him. Just yesterday someone said they were reporting me because I Teemo-laughed when they tried to kill me and died. (For those who don't play. Teemo is a despised character who 90% of players will try to kill before anyone else on the screen no matter what is happening).

I honestly don't know who's more hated right now: Teemo or Yuumi.

And for those who don't play, imagine a PvP match where the Scholar was literally someone's fairy. They were attached to that person, rarely ever left them, and you could only target them when they weren't connected to someone. All the while feeding them stats. And it doesn't matter whether the devs nerf their potency or their healing, the fact that this is a player you do not have access to, empowering someone who can potentially already kill you and bailing them out of a pinch is what makes people ban the character.

Compare that to someone who is invisible when stationary or in a bush, and has lathered the field with so many poison bombs to make the map look like a toxic version of Minesweeper.
And though laughing emotes aren't deadly in any way, Teemo's such an annoying champion that his laugh alone does emotional damage to the opponent.

I uh...also played Teemo back when I played.

No regrets.

/fistbump

[Fawkes]

[GTK0HLK]

[Trying to keep short, but keeping short aint so easy for me.]

While you didnt ask for it. thanks for your great comments/funny responses.<whatever your intent was anyways. they do brighten and lighten the forum a bit.>

Me personally, i tend to come for the Understanding how some feel about the lack of support of etc, or why they want something.
Sadly this isnt like most forums, its not like we have separate areas for just tossing ideas without asking for implementation. no social category.
[World Categories are practically just FC adverts] so we are limited to the Threads where its expected to be a BnM about topics. Share Random in-game scenarios, images, etc.(though these are the minority of threads, which keep things barely balanced, despite the fact its more akin to a "Open Sharlayan Forum"/Poll)

My uses of the OF has been mostly just informing myself on how other players feel a need/want/feel for something that could be improved/implemented.
(Preferring to keep my responses to, Short as I can-honest-) Though what extends my word count is either trying to explain how I see it, offer a middle that the devs could implement-as likely that they would see it.., or not.- whilst on occasion that I do know something, let people know, to measure their expectations. or wait til something happens.<like the Unknown extent of the Graphics Update, or remind the fact CBUIII had worked on more than XIV recently>(the other occasion, is when there is too much, "it doesnt matter/waste of time" to small and large things. resulting to, we dont know what they plan. and if both dont matter, nothing does.) Occasionally avoiding topics after a comment or so. [which I guess, when it came to the thread you mentioned it felt like some players incorrectly came in with a social media mentality. assuming it was for idealistic reasons rather than game experience enhancing. when it was as simple as two plus two/and or make it so I dont have to spin the wheel anymore.]

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