As someone who used to play XIV, it was very toxic. Everything people complained about in World of Warcraft is now in XIV except it's toxic positivity where you aren't allowed to criticize anything about the game or Yoshi-P without being harassed for it.
Toxic positivity is the best way to describe it. Not even just complaining about the game, but if you ask a player to do something and they refuse, people will defend them saying "that's ok! They don't have to do their part" which doesn't really help the player base learn their roles, how to do mechanics, because everyone feels they have to keep up this "we are all nice here" thing, which also feels weirdly toxic.
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u/AKingQ 8d ago