Materia - Bismarck - Eastern La Noscea

[Stasya]

entitled americans and eur*peans invading our server being as obnoxious as ever

Do you even play this game before you raise complaint about square enix bad instance design?

I know you are baiting, so i will say lets close OCE from travel and disable home world transfer for all players there, so region bleed out players for good and square pull plug on servers.

[SophiaDL]

Do you even play this game before you raise complaint about square enix bad instance design?

I know you are baiting, so i will say lets close OCE from travel and disable home world transfer for all players there, so region bleed out players for good and square pull plug on servers.

[Ajisaii]

Do you even play this game before you raise complaint about square enix bad instance design?

I know you are baiting, so i will say lets close OCE from travel and disable home world transfer for all players there, so region bleed out players for good and square pull plug on servers.

Yeah buddy no one knows what you're saying

[Infindox]

This is a simple search for screenshots, nothing profane added. This is what FFXIV represents in 2025. Many communities, venues and FCs look like this. Are you ashamed? Would you tell someone in real life that you play this game?

The community hasn't changed in the way you are proposing. There were always these types of people playing the game. Even if there's punishments, people will still try to mod more "scandalous" things. (Look at any live service game like Marvel Rivals) And no, people aren't ashamed of it, because a lot of people do this to express themselves.
The community has changed in different ways, but not in this one.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong, I'm just saying this has always been here.
Also there are plenty of FCs and communities in XIV that are "vanilla".

[caffe_macchiato]

Here's yt search for ffxiv https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ffxiv

Yikes, I don't think that makes the game look any better:

[Infindox]

Yikes, I don't think that makes the game look any better:

While yes this makes the game look like it's in a bad spot, it also doesn't match what you were trying to blame, which... None of these videos are about? That FC video looks like only different lighting was used, otherwise I've seen similar layouts done.
Unless I am misreading your last comment completely wrong.

[Altina_Orion]

This is promoting cheating behavior. On PS5, I do not have access to Gatherbuddy. There are many other plugins which also function as “accessibility tools”, like auto-rotation, auto-duty and auto-crafters. Gatherbuddy and other automators are explicitly called out because they are enhancing performance. A vanilla/console player could never compete against a botter when it comes to marketboard sales volume, for example. The “slippery slope” is a straight drop because FFXIV is the only MMO without any kind of enforcement for cheating.

But that’s easy to prove. What isn’t easy is telling people how much the community has changed in ten years. Materia is congested for the sole purpose of, as they say, “gooning”. There are more than enough pictures and stories, all enabled by the same cheat tools. This has been going on for a while. Most venues use them along with many communities and FCs. It has become a social expectation and is almost mandatory for roleplay. If you search for game screenshots anywhere, this is what you see:
https://x.com/search?q=ffxiv%20screenshots

This is a simple search for screenshots, nothing profane added. This is what FFXIV represents in 2025. Many communities, venues and FCs look like this. Are you ashamed? Would you tell someone in real life that you play this game?

I would because I'm not a gooner. It's unlikely that people outside of FFXIV circles see this stuff so I'm not sure the optics are as bad as you think. Really, I just let people play the way they want and I engage in the content I like which is achievement hunting.

[Altina_Orion]

While yes this makes the game look like it's in a bad spot, it also doesn't match what you were trying to blame, which... None of these videos are about? That FC video looks like only different lighting was used, otherwise I've seen similar layouts done.
Unless I am misreading your last comment completely wrong.

This. And the game isn't in a bad state because of gooning, but because there is a lack of meaningful and engaging content and when it happens, it falls short of expectations. OC is largely considered to be a downgrade of bozja, for example.

[Canadane]

Whoa, does it actually not let you teleport into those zones entirely? I've never seen that happen and I've been around in some very congested places over the years.

I've lost big fish windows because of S ranks congesting zones before.

[Limerence]

You're all getting a bit off topic

Thread was about issues getting into these zones and everyone that was still clogging up Bismarck for like a ridiculous amount of time. If it was one day its whatever but when these people that aren't native to that server keep clogging up the zones for days on end so bad people native to that server cant get timed nodes, cant do msq etc it's really unfair, rude and uncaring.

Simple solution would be just saying sorry and giving it a break instead of attacking people or insulting them. Name calling isn't necessary, everyone wants to enjoy the game.

This game used to have a good community once upon a time people getting so toxic, lately there is a us vs them mentality with everything. Everyone enjoys different aspects of the game. You do you but try not to be an A-hole to everyone else. Pretty simple really. We just want to be able to do basic things on our own server. Like anyone playing the game.