What is wrong with this community?

[Scratchs]

I have played WoW since beta and the attitude people have with each other here is just as bad if not worse in my experience so far. The vitriol towards people they have only just met is insane. I love this game, but the community is so toxic and it is really killing my enjoyment.

The community has totally got me down too! I've played most of my MMO time in FFXI, Warhammer Online, Phantasy Star Universe, and of course there are jerks in every game but FFXIV 2.0 is so far beyond anything I've encountered in any game. Even in the early days of 1.0 people were really nice in the game, and they had something to complain about!

[Fealow]

I'm not stereotyping PS3 players, but I think mixing pc and console gamers in one domain is kind of asking for a divide in the community. Console players are more often than not aggressive in their approach to socializing due to the way in which they are conditioned in game to interact with each other.

[AjoraOak]

I love seeing threads like this... especially after so many "the community is amazing" threads in beta XD

[Jyan91]

I'm not stereotyping PS3 players, but I think mixing pc and console gamers in one domain is kind of asking for a divide in the community. Console players are more often than not aggressive in their approach to socializing due to the way in which they are conditioned in game to interact with each other.

console player will be playing the exact game as pc players from beginning to end so where did this negative idea sprout from? this is not KZ 3/COD/GTA5, these types of comments (will and do) split and ruin the community.

horrible people will be horrible people.
haters will hate.

[Riv]

I was in 2 DF parties for Titan tonight, back to back, and before we even started the fight ppl just left without saying a word. Really? lol

[Raxion]

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I'm going to have to completely agree with you on that. I would have to say that console gamers are in a larger part, much worse attitude-wise than PC gamers. If you've ever been unfortunate enough to delve into the abyss that is "Xbox Live", you'd know what I'm talking about. I'd say it definitely has more to do with the age-group of console players, than the conditioning they've received.

PC gamers usually belong to a much older age-group (Stay-at-home moms, married folks with families, ect.). While most console gamers are usually in their teens or early 20's. Forgive my generalization, but I'm one to believe that most of the toxicity we see in the community comes from the console player's average age-group. (This is all based on information that I've seen and my personal opinion, of course.)

[MerlinOmniking]

This is just one example. It seems to be getting worse on a daily basis. Out of the 7-8 runs I do a day, at least 4 of them are just outright toxic. The people I have run with have almost killed the game for me.

thats why you have a Free company on your own server to do these runs. me and my FC do daily runs while have raid times for what is the farthest we got on coil. i think in the most recent interview, yoshi states something about the reason some things are duty finder accesseble is to force you to find good people on the server to group with along those lines.

[Reika]

Well, there is little wrong with my community if you know what im talking about.

Reason #2 why I didnt go to a na/eu world.

[MerlinOmniking]

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Duty finder is not ment to be great, It was ment to force you to group up with like minded individuals in a Free Company on your server to do this content; however, gives you the option to do it solo but is not recommended for your sanity. AK, Primals, Castrum if i get frustrated with DF I find 4-8 people to do events in my FC and withing mins i have content with people i can trust to get the content done.

[LiadansWhisper]

So I'm farming CM with a friend to help him finish getting his Darklight. I get into a group with a pull-happy tank that pulls the second boss and locks a couple people out. We wiped, then he starts trying to trash talk me (the other tank). Then AFKs when I talk back to him.

This is just one minor example of what running with random players has been like in this game. The online community has become nothing more than a cesspool of trash floating downhill to a sewage plant.

If this is the community I can expect to have to deal with, I'm not sure I'll stay. I just can't take being verbally assaulted in every other run for absolutely nothing.

If it makes you feel better, the CM group I was with today had a DRG who ran around pulling everything because we were "too slow." He destroyed all the cannons, so we had to do the packs the old fashioned way, and refused to deal with adds (in an all-melee group, we had 0 ranged). He also trash talked people.

I sincerely wish that it was possible to vote to kick players like this. I don't mind speed runs - in fact, I really like them! But wipes cost more time than you save by going fast.