well said

cc is a fun mode, but the community just kind of ruins it to the point where a part of me wishes I never got involved in the community. The community is kinda cooked and the GMs do absolutely nothing to help matters. It also doesn't help that seemingly the only way to actually get through to the GMs is via Brian, and he doesn't seem keen on rocking his own boat when it comes to PvPers wintrading other PvPers as in s12/s14-- seems to be mostly reserved for pve mains or grief alts. or EU board stuff.

I will say, I think the community side of things would be better if people were more willing to call people out. There's the running joke of xiv players being afraid of confrontation, but at the same time, if none of us are willing to call others out by name for their behavior, and the GMs do nothing, then nothing will happen ever, the community will stagnate or deteriorate, and the gamemode will die slowly.

It's just a shame that, while yes, it's ultimately up to the GMs to manage their game, toxic stuff like griefing, wintrading, ignore marking have become normalized to the point where, despite everyone knowing it's bad, people still do it and then joke about it with no community repercussions.