Is there too much soy in this game's community

[Astronis]

I'll list some things that have been said to me in OSRS by people after they killed me in PvP—things that brought a smile to my face and made me want to 1v1 them again asap.

1. Sit
2. F*ck, you even trying buddy?
3. Get wrecked

Are we really going to sit here and intimate that trash talk (within reason, as in no slurs/biogtry/irl related insults) is somehow morally wrong or immature?

I remember playing PVP in another MMO with a much smaller player base, where the regular PVPers more or less knew each other on a casual basis and were friendly to one another, and the banter was much worse than this and while I never participated, I could tell that between them, it was mostly done in fun and I could appreciate it for what it was. But whenever some community event occurred that got the wider player base into PVP when they otherwise never touched it, tempers would flare because what worked with the small group of mutual friendly antagonists didn't work with hundreds or thousands of people who don't know each other at all.

I suspect that's the situation here. That kind of banter works with people you know (or have a mutual understanding with even if you don't really know them)--but in a large community of thousands who aren't normally competitive with each other, it doesn't. Which is what FFXIV's PVP is like.