LogFAQs > #883663130

Nope I was there from Day 1, played for a couple years. Quit for a while and came back for a little bit.

Community was fantastic. Was in a few different LS, everyone was super friendly, super helpful. Sometimes I felt bad asking people for help with certain things because they were huge time sinks. But they didn't mind at all, they would come through and help you complete things through no benefit to themselves.

You were on a different server then, because the only people I ever dealt with were trolls and elitists.
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Like I said earlier. It definitely sounds like the problem is you. You sound like a pretty miserable person.

And like I said earlier, my opinion of grouping was *caused* by FFXI, it's not like I held a negative opinion of online multiplayer before then. How could I? I had literally never done something like it before, if anything I was fucking confused at first as to why I was dealing with an endless stream of assholes because that's not at all what I was expecting, and it was only after enduring it for a month that I considered the community rancid.

Even with WoW and every other MMO I've played, assholes are still present and accounted for in abundance (it's similarly why I laugh at claims that Vanilla WoW "had a better community back then" because I was there, and I know better), so it's silly that you're even trying to pretend that they somehow never found their way to FFXI. The only difference now is that I can minimize how much I have to deal with them in most other MMOs, whereas FFXI forced me to eat their shit daily until I finally quit.
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