What is wrong with this community?

[Dijana]

Can we really split it as simply as that though? Being 1.0 or a new player is one thing, being a complete @$$hole is another. I do have to say, I don't remember the 1.0 community being this bad at all.

Sorry, I was unclear. I didn't mean this is the ONLY issue. I mean, some people are just jerks, while there are also lots of nice 1.0 people. I just meant I think this is what contributes a big portion, not the only thing though.

[Laume]

Sorry, I was unclear. I didn't mean this is the ONLY issue. I mean, some people are just jerks, while there are also lots of nice 1.0 people. I just meant I think this is what contributes a big portion, not the only thing though.

Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification. ^^b

[Sneakaboo]

I think majority of the rude players are directly from WoW, and are from the group of gamers that expect instant gratification with no effort. These players are irritating for me also, I usually leave group if they bother me too much (trash talking is unacceptable for me imo).

I think WoW has ruined a lot of the MMO community by being so casual friendly and by making gear so easy to get. Players don't realise that games are suppose to be hard and they don't realise that everyone in the party is important to the group.

But aren't you now just not generalizing and basically trash talking people that played another MMO?

They're worse than WoW, way worse than WoW. I played WoW for 6+ years up until about a month ago. I never had to sift through the garbage like I have to in this game. They're just terrible, terrible people. People that shouldn't even be allowed to communicate with other human beings.

I rarely met people in WOW that acted like the ones here, not in game or on the forums.
It has something to do with that Blizzard sorts this stuff out.
Also maybe the Eu servers are less trash than the US ones, cant' tell.

[tuseroni]

square enix cannot patch human nature...i'm sorry you have to live with assholes.

[Pooky]

You're expecting people to be nice to strangers on the internet? I mean yeah, it would be nice if people actually weren't complete dicks to each other online, but we live in a world where an Indian lady wins Miss America and she gets compared to terrorists and hatred over twitter because of it. So why are you surprised that people in an online video game are being complete assholes for no reason? Don't act like its a FFXIV thing, its a human beings and the internet thing, unfortunately.

Find a group of people to run with that your personality matches up with and play with them. That's why guilds exist.

[Lamra]

Gotta say it could also be the server you are currently on. At the moment i've run a few with randoms and they've never dared trash talked us or been impatient. I think it really depends on the server.. I remember once being on a Tera server that was full of trash talking idiots that barely enjoyed working together. Then I joined GW 2 and the server I was on was very helpful and had great guilds.. Sometimes some communities in some servers are literally poop stains compared to others!


Ohh now I just realized you're from Ultros too.. How odd.. Maybe because the people actually leveling up right now in around my levels are taking it easy and enjoy the game. Since you're maxed now, you may be with a lot of people that are overly obsessed and needing to have everything as quick as possible. So when things go wrong, they get extremely volatile. Because seriously, when I've joined groups for dungeons it's been pretty good. We're all new to it and have a learning curve. Doesn't mean we don't like to be really good at it though :s but I never get dick heads!

[Raxion]

Ohh now I just realized you're from Ultros too.. How odd.. Maybe because the people actually leveling up right now in around my levels are taking it easy and enjoy the game. Since you're maxed now, you may be with a lot of people that are overly obsessed and needing to have everything as quick as possible. So when things go wrong, they get extremely volatile. Because seriously, when I've joined groups for dungeons it's been pretty good. We're all new to it and have a learning curve. Doesn't mean we don't like to be really good at it though :s but I never get dick heads!

I'm legitimately glad you haven't had to deal with some of the people I have had to. You're doing it right. Don't rush to the endgame like I did. There's not much positivity waiting for you at the moment. Just tons of frustration and impolite people. Maybe things will clear up in time, but I can't really see the light at the end of the tunnel right now.

[Kaedan94]

In the long term, I would say don't worry too much about it OP. After the first 30 days is up, most of the trolls and d-bags will have gone. There will certainly be some remaining, and there will always be elitists as well, but it shouldn't be as noticeable.

And to the poster who said this was all to blame on DF... you have no idea what you're talking about. Being able to more quickly and easily form a group without having to make them manually doesn't have any effect on their behavior. If anything, it would make them less irritated. I run probably 8-10 instances a day and in a week I've only had 1 truly toxic player, 1 troll leaver. Of course, I set the DF to J/E and am on Masamune, so that might help the issue. NA is certainly plagued with more rude people... but that still has nothing to do with DF. Rude people don't suddenly become polite when they have to find groups manually.

[silentwindfr]

you know with the level sync the content will stay hard?
i means in WoW (by example) yeah with the new equipement level and all the raid become useless, it will not be the case, since a raid made for be done at 50 will only be done at 50 ^^

[Deusteele]

Because every at 50 is shoved into a few select instances, they are getting tired of seeing them time and again. As the end game becomes more varied you'll see the community lighten up. Familiarity breeds contempt and such forth.