Thread: So I have been thinking

I have played this game since beta 3 and fell in love with it. And have been playing ever since. Along the way I have met some really cool people and made some great friends, and they are why I now continue to play this game. They are my core, people I know I can count on and turn to for help when I need it.


I will be the first to say, I am not the best and the only class i am even remotely good at is WHM, mainly because i played it since launch and its the one i am more comfortable with. I have decided to level a few other classes i started to feel were fun to play (SMN and PLD) and decided to play them more to get them geared up

I am a nice person, I created an FC with some friends because we all felt like outcasts in out former FC or they had just simply fell apart and i knew that eventually we would need to start inviting others into out FC to have a better player base and for the most part I have found people that fit in with us great. But most are new players and arent 50 so we don't have core group to run endgame content with aside from the 4 man instances.

The more i am interacting with the MMO mentality of this game, the more it saddens me that a fresh 50, or someone that is a new 50 on a different class gets trolled, berated and kicked from groups because they are trying to learn content. I have cued for the Mog King, and Ultima on my SMN and was told by several people in each group, to leave. DF was no longer the place to learn content that i need to use party finder. I admit when i mess up, but 98% of the time, i learn from it, and succeed. I watch videos to learn the content before i even que, but you truly don't learn anything til you are in it, doing it and seeing it first hand

I have played the FF series since the 1, and it has always been based on community. People helping people out. This game has sadly been taken over by the MMO mentality and now makes it hard for the new players that are joining to enjoy it the way i did when i started.

Originally Posted by LiadansWhisper

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Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm saying it as nicely as I can, but... Considering some of the posts I've seen you make on the realm forums (and these forums in general), I'm really, really surprised to see this coming from you.

Now i am confused. If you are refering to the post i made about an former member of my FC raging on someone in DF for winning a roll, then me, and then not replacing things he took from the FC chest before he left? I felt other FC on the server needed to know what type of person they were. I mentioned no names, he outted himself and admitted it in the forums.

I have never been out right rude to people. I have never berated people for wanting to learn content. Maybe some of the stuff i have said wasn't coated in rainbows and sparkles and butterflies, but it was not malicious in any way. I have always made it a point to help people out here. Whether it is not what some want to hear, its not my place to sugar coat anything, but you can ask people i game with, I do what ever it takes to help out the community. Even so far as creating a toon on another server to give advice to a player when SE decided that i have replied to enough forum posts. What i post is my opinion and nothing more. For what its worth people can take it or leave it.

Elitism always sucks, which is why I automatically gravitated towards a casual FC and strike up new friendships with people who I see doing non-hardcore things like climbing onto tall buildings or having funny pseudo-roleplay conversations.

The DF should be still for practice, IMHO. I know for one that whenever I use the Roulette system for low-level dungeons now, there's usually a newbie who will need to learn boss fights and make mistakes, and I'm generally patient and try to explain mechanics or tell them not to stress out over failing the first time or whatnot. I hate the douchebags who then start acting in a condescending fashion or trying to rush everybody through the duty, they set very bad examples.

If I want anything like superfocused speedruns and such, I set those up via Party Finder, LS or FC chats and get a full group instead of just going through the DF. Going into the DF means you should make no assumptions about the people in it and expect new players or at least people new to that specific duty, and behave accordingly. And maybe respectfully (as if that was a lot to ask. *eyeroll*)