What a difference between the community

Off-Topic Games, Gaming and Hardware
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I play both WoW and final fantasy and I have noticed how much more friendly the final fantasy community is. I ran a few dungeons last night in final fantasy and as soon as I joined for each run, every player said hello and asked how everyone’s day was going and were hyping each other up for the run with encouraging words. Then after the run was done everyone said thank you and said hope we all have a wonderful rest of the day and it is like this for every single run I’ve done.

compare that to running a random dungeon with pugs in WoW. I ran two random heroics and time walking dungeon last night on my alt not one person said hello in any of the runs no one talked throughout the whole thing in any of them and there was only 1 run where at the end someone said “gg” and left

That’s the difference between the WoW community and final fantasy.

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Generally FF has way stricter rules on how people should interact with each other in game.

It also has probably helped weed some of the toxicity out of the community via temp or even permanent bans.

That’s not to say there is 0…but I’d say there is probably 1 jerk in every 20 dungeons or so I run…in WoW unless your doing 15s like it’s nothing and higher you generally don’t get that low of a ratio. Partially because there is no actual penalty for being a donkey to someone.

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Using a sports comparison.

Final Fantasy: is more of a casual league “let’s have fun everyone, be nice to each other and have good time, everyone gets a participation trophy”

WoW: is more of a competitive league “get you a** in gear, quit whining, improve on your performance, winning is the goal, and failure is not an option”

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I’ll take “Things that never happened for 800 Alex”

And thats our daily double

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Thank you for highlighting that you’ve never even seen FF.

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I was on the ff14 message board and it was incredibly toxic. The oversexualization of female and child avatars in that game reflects the strange and angry player base.

I guess your subjective view is different than the truth.

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I played it for a few weeks when some friends wanted to until we got bored. It was especially annoying since they wouldn’t let us party until we subbed to the game.

Either way, it has a good story and is more heavily policed by mods/GMs especially in chat. It doesn’t have nearly as good end game content and is a game tailored to the zoomer anime crowd.

Just because you feel I didn’t compliment the game, doesn’t mean I haven’t tried it lol. I don’t have to like the same game you do. No need to get insulted :man_shrugging:

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I truly hope they address this more and more. The /spit thing gave me a little hope that they’re going to try to reign in toxicity, but they’re only hiring for combat design and not for any sort of CM position, so I’m extremely skeptical.

One thing FFXIV does right is make the game very approachable to everyone… assuming you can figure out how to install it. (:

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That’s an awful lot to unpack in one sentence.

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I never said I was insulted :thinking: not… really sure how you drew that conclusion but whatever I guess. But like you said, you tried it for a few weeks. Did you boost or did you even make it past ARR content? Because ARR content is admittedly trash. From your take on “everyone gets a participation trophy” or “mods/GMs police the chat”, I don’t know what weird game you’ve been playing because literally neither of those exist. Therefore… you either haven’t played the game or are just making stuff up. :woman_shrugging:

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I played FF. Most of the players are werid AF!

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FF players just don’t say the things through in game chat that will get them banned. That doesn’t mean they aren’t saying it elsewhere.

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Yeah, the cultures are very different. Personally, I wouldn’t want to stop and say “how was your day?” each time that I ran a dungeon…

In the end WE are the change that we wish to see. If you notice that no one is talking, that “no one” also includes you.

Some runs I don’t talk, other runs I do talk. When I talk, often people join in.

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Actually, people saying hello at the start, chatting along the way, saying thank you at the end - that’s rather normal for FFXIV parties.

Message boards in general tend to get that way. The OP is talking about the in-game experience. Have you seen the forums here btw?

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Yay. Mostly ff14 players trolling here. I logged into ff14 and the community was elitist.

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And that’s a good enough difference. Tact is important in a game like this.

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eh I’d say it’s normal for people to say hello or at least “o7” while you’re waiting in the starting circle, and then a “gg” or “tyfp” at the end.

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Got back to WoW after 3 months with no computer. First I helped someone with oribos cartel quest, something about a cargo manifest. I got there too late to save the guy who was fighting the mob, but I did kill it and rez the guy. Got some thanks whispered to me, was nice.
Then it was off to a Tirna Scythe wq where I teamed up with a forsaken rogue who offered to stick around and help me finish as I still had 25% to go. All in all a great return to a game that can sometimes be unpleasant. It was nice to have friendly people around when you haven’t played anything more challenging than best fiends for 3 months. So rusty on my rotation, the help was appreciated

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You do realize everyone posting on this forum has an active WoW subscription, right? These aren’t “FF14 players”; these are WoW players who likely also play FF14. Your troll in the second half of the post is sad, though :pensive: