New Player Experience is bad.

[AnnRam]

Been playing for 13 years. I don't RP or ERP. I play the game.

Glad you are the 1%.

Cheers.

[Renalt]

Oh yeah? I CAST MAGIC #*@(ING MISSILE! SCREW YOU OCEAN! I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL!

Wonder how much EXP I just got killing the ocean and every creature in it that couldn't survive out of water...

Mr. Torque approves.

[Erinellza]

I've been playing MMOs for 2 decades and XIV has a very chill in-game community in general. The fact that I can report rude players and they actually get warned/suspended makes me feel safe compared to other MMOs. I joined XIV in 2019 and only ran into 2 rude players and I'm online daily. Other than that, I completely ignore weird things I'm not interested in (like ERP). The forum is full of whiners and trolls, tho.

[IckeDerTyp]

Try harder next time!

I r8 8/b8~

[Eraden]

If you don't ERP/RP this game isn't for you

Mao does not see many peoples what do the RPs likes Mao. Mao thinkings Noir resorting to hyperboles.

[RitsukoSonoda]

Mr. Torque approves.

There was also the priceless look on the GM's face when I asked the question of how much EXP I got from all the things that died when I blew up a planet during a session instead of landing on it to find the guy I was supposed to kill... >.>

[Renalt]

There was also the priceless look on the GM's face when I asked the question of how much EXP I got from all the things that died when I blew up a planet during a session instead of landing on it to find the guy I was supposed to kill... >.>

Was it a Star Wars table top? The GM is probably like "uh...you gain...5 XP for pushing a button. The station itself goes from level 1 to level 20."

[RitsukoSonoda]

Was it a Star Wars table top? The GM is probably like "uh...you gain...5 XP for pushing a button. The station itself goes from level 1 to level 20."

No, not star wars. It was a campaign built using BESM

[george357]

just another troll topic the rest of them will keep necrobumping this to keep it in play,

[LianaThorne]

There are definitely strange people here. People are strange everywhere, whether online or in person.

I can see how some subcultures of the FFXIV community could turn off new players. I left my first datacenter for the much-smaller Dynamis datacenter because I disliked seeing certain subcultures. That helped considerably.

If I had known more about the subcultures prior to joining FFXIV, I would have gone for a different datacenter from the start. This exists across MMOs; for instance, on World of Warcraft, the server Blackrock (especially way back in 2004) differs wildly in subculture from a roleplaying server. Even the roleplaying servers differ in culture from each other.

One thing that might help would be for there to be "official labeling" of servers . . . although, adding that to the game now would cause all kinds of disruptions and disagreements, I am sure. Perhaps a better solution would be to find a way to encourage new players to poke around online for opinions about the subcultures on various datacenters so they can have a clearer understanding of the people who will be surrounding them.

I'm not sure whether or not Square would try to outright label any of the servers. Would be cool if they did but I feel a large group join a specific server because of friends or wherever the automatic assignment system throws them (which I believe is still Dynamis but I haven't checked in a minute). I feel that it might encourage people to overpopulate other servers and create a problem there while other servers become abandoned or lessened because of whatever label they have assigned to them. Would be nice but I think honestly if people cared about what servers were popular, what the feel was, etc., that they would have done so from the start since all it takes is a simple search on Google to get that info.