FF14 player count reached the lowest point in 4 years. We lost 75% of the playerbase.

[Striker44]

I've played for 12 years and can count reports I've made on one hand, and I've never been confronted by a GM. This always concerns me when another player mentions their experience has been this bad when so many of us never see that. I send random tells all the time if I see a sick glamour or some such. It's never an issue. Ever.

But I've also never touched WoW. For years it was the fear of it being vile towards me, a woman, but nowadays it's just genuinely that it doesn't look as enjoyable to me since I care way more about lore and story and Blizzard is all over the place with that. I got annoyed by it in early Overwatch (which was supposed to be an MMO) being so messy and disjointed and that's just gotten worse over the years.

I have to second this. I've likewise played FFXIV on-and-off from 2015 until around 2021, then as my main MMO since then. I can still probably count on one hand the number of "toxic" people I've encountered in-game, compared to seeing it on a near-daily basis my last few years in WoW.