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>compared to /xivg/
I was /xivg/ for years. it's literally filled with delicate flowers, homolust and orange-number inflated egos over endgame competition that is just: whoever follows the boss script the closest. relationship drama was very public and very ongoing, literally all the time (tofu, abe, ippiki etc). Avatarfagging is common place and even encouraged. 

Fundamentally, FF14 is also just a story mmo with no real pvp and was an underdog to WoW for most of its life. that makes it's fans have hair trigger defensive mechanisms, not unlike the oppressed twitter tranny social caste which it draws in. no accident that it is known as tranny fantasy among most generals. The wowg classic guild for example was much more GAMER than any linkshell xivg ever came up with, just by the fact that girls & trannies were kicked on the spot. 

I actually prefer FF14, but as an argument against reddit filled spaces, xivg is one of the worst you could have picked and just shits on the credibility of the rest of your post. There is truth in your post though, and eccentrics or hyper-maladjusted gamers don't fit in very well here. When someone like Moub is a divisive figure just for being loud and gay, or HB getting stomped for making a slightly trolly mod, you can be sure we have some crusty reddit normies who are aggressive about keeping this a safe space.