Final Fantasy XIV is pretty bad.
Places like Reddit will claim that the game has one of the least toxic and most welcoming communities. But in reality, if you criticize the game in any way, you get shot down very hard. While you will rarely run into toxicity in the game itself due to Square Enix's draconian Terms of Service, the Styx runs deep on 3rd party services like Discord. Stalking, bullying, 3rd party discord mods running channels required to enjoy certain parts of the game, nothing is off the table.
Raiding communities for the game like The Balance Discord have attracted crazy trannies and are run by crazy trannies. They're allowed to stalk players, make false accusations, trash talk in the DMs. But you are not allowed to call them "retarded" because it's "ableism". I wish I was making this shit up, but it's something that was added to their rules. There's weird shit going on in their private discord channels where it seems to me like they groom teenagers into transgenderism, and enable each other's loser lifestyles.
The raiding community itself has a crazy fixation on mathematical efficiency to an autistic level. Players use third party tools and a third party website known as fflogs to create competitive percentile rankings on the internet. If you're not doing the most "optimal rotation", you're griefing. I've run raid groups for the past few raid tiers and in every single one of them, I had to deal with at least one player who sucks at doing the basics on their class, but will whine endlessly about how their parse is bad because the internet is bad/their gear isn't good enough/it's the strat that isn't uptime enough/they were playing with a blindfold.
I had to draft up a bunch of strategies this tier to "maximize uptime" so melee players wouldn't cry too much about it, but it overall makes progression slower and doesn't produce results. The players care too much about the destination (Having an inflated log on a third party leaderboard only discord autists care about) versus the journey (Actually getting better at the game and being more consistent at doing the content).
Twitch in general has the most autistic, toxic, echo chamber culture gaming currently has.
The only way to make it on the platform is appeal to children or flash your tits.
I never understood the appeal of Twitch. Every single time I dealt with a small streamer, they were a sycophant only interested in "making friends" who watch their stream religiously. And every single time I tried watching a bigger streamer, it's mired by a retarded chat and the streamer thanking someone for money every 3 minutes.
