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

[SturmChurro]

I think a lot of the "angry" takes are because people feel like they aren't heard.

There's been a lot of feedback on multiple things over years, but the english community seems to be sidelined most of the time and getting very little aknowledgement for things they bring up.

This leads to a loop of frustration and eventually people just shouting into void.

Definitely true, to an extent. A silent SE on a myriad of issues. It took them until leading into EW to even mention they were looking into viera hairs, for example, and then apparently when they did address hairs at the start of ShB, that has now become a mistranslation (?). If we had actual cms involved with the community here, I think many would be a lot more positive.

I feel like the forums is a very poor representation of the actual community in the game. If you based it on the forums you’d expect people to be mean spirited, aggressive, and vindictive. But after playing since 1.0 I’ve rarely ever seen people argue or otherwise abuse each other in-game. It happens of course, but the general vibe is nowhere near as volatile as it feels on the forums.

That is because many players are too afraid of getting their actual accounts banned in-game. On top of this being a more discussion oriented platform, rules are skirted here seemingly more regularly, and even if a player was to get permad, I've seen many just laugh it off. I have seen lots - and I mean a lot - of horror stories regarding many players. Whether it be through Discord, Twitter, Reddit, or wherever else.

[Edelgarde]

Forums are the perfect place to piss people off. What else are you gonna do with it? I wouldn't have used the forums if it wasn't so entertaining.

[grinkdaboy]

i feel like the avg xiv general discussion browser has 5x the braincells of your average wow general discussion browser

[BaconBits]

i feel like the avg xiv general discussion browser has 5x the braincells of your average wow general discussion browser

5 times 0 is still 0.

[Zebraoracle]

5 times 0 is still 0.

PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Axxion]

5 times 0 is still 0.

this is why you are a national treasure

[AnnRam]

Because you can't say anything in game, not even "turn your stance on please" because it may get your account suspended for "bad behavior" and reddit it's full of fake "PMA".

Twitter it's the worst place so far the amount of whiteknights protecting with their lives every single decision of SE is stunning.

[NekoMataMata]

Because you can't say anything in game, not even "turn your stance on please" because it may get your account suspended for "bad behavior" and reddit it's full of fake "PMA".

Twitter it's the worst place so far the amount of whiteknights protecting with their lives every single decision of SE is stunning.

Twitter is the worst because people will sit there and dox others while at the same time acting self-righteous. If you do something that a lot of FFXIV twitter users don't like then they immediately try to dig up whatever they can on you, as if you gave them a right to.

Don't get me wrong, some of the stuff people on there complain about is horrible, but that doesn't make it right to attempt to dox said person for their behavior.

[Raoabolic]

Twitter is the worst because people will sit there and dox others while at the same time acting self-righteous. If you do something that a lot of FFXIV twitter users don't like then they immediately try to dig up whatever they can on you, as if you gave them a right to.

Don't get me wrong, some of the stuff people on there complain about is horrible, but that doesn't make it right to attempt to dox said person for their behavior.

It really does stink that the devs are doubling down on the twitter mob. You can't even enter an xiv contest without having a twitter account which is depressing considering they used the official forums during the HW days. I don't even bother with SE contests anymore because of that. :/

[Renalt]

Because you can't say anything in game, not even "turn your stance on please" because it may get your account suspended for "bad behavior"

Did something like that really happen? That is so dumb if true. It shouldn't be that way at all.