User blog comment:Fairingrey/May 3, 2015 Thoughts About Quitting and Where Ishtaria Is Heading/@comment-25899639-20150504015159/@comment-25899639-20150504043605

True that. Personally I like a lot of the artwork of the units in this game, the game itself overall doesnt bother me so much as the toxic playerbase (Americans in general?) But having been a 8+ year player of FFXI and sticking with FFXIV since its original release in October 2010 AND being an Alpha/Beta tester, it seems like the regions are "segregated" based on beliefs (the Japanese players on FFXIV actually DEMANDED to be separated from the North American players due to how arrogant they are (not all of them, but a good majority of them) and they pretty much troll at any possible opportunity. In FFXIV its gotten to the point that he official forums are avoided by the real players who actually enjoy the game for what it is vs the "elitist minority" that literally do nothing but troll newer players.

But all that aside, I do like AoI, just not the Ranking Events (far too heavily P2W, and draws out people who will hack/cheat to win) and well...Union/Guild Wars, they can be fun if done right but....given the UW is so new, I think there may be a few more changes to it before they make the event what they want it with less opportunity to be able to cheat/hack, assuming they actually give a rat's ass about their game and players. (From what I've seen of their support responses, thats a HUGE NO.)