What happened to this player-base?!

[Zerich]

Everyone rather compete for mobs in [A] than teaming up. I didn't know I was playing WoW.

[Komori]

Had some JP players show this off in Misa, day before yesterday over the rabbit that drops WAR and WHM, I only wanted WHM for a friend and tanking in full EVA, him and his BLM/WHM friend died almost every time. While me and my WHM friend (with me tanking in TP gear) did pretty well off, the WHM didn't even really need to heal more than once or twice a battle and actually melee'd just for giggles.

I continued to offer to Team Up but they wouldn't say a word to me, I ended up just popping over them until they left.

[Greatguardian]

Everyone rather compete for mobs in [A] than teaming up. I didn't know I was playing WoW.

It's easy for the unwashed masses to team up when they're woefully outmatched by their competition.

When the real competition no longer gives a crap about Abyssea, the unwashed masses suddenly become total dicks to one another, because they actually stand a chance.

The solution? Hopelessness. Grind people so far into the dust that their only option is to team up with others if they want even a remote chance of popping an NM, and suddenly they'll want to team up again.

Viva la elite: Encouraging the cooperation of the community since 2004.

[uptempo]

I love it when you goto a pre-empy nm and even though it wouldn't hurt them to team up some people won't its not a huge majority of people but some won't.

[Aquilla]

We are the playerbase.

If you think that the way people treat each other has changed in any significant manner, you're either idealizing the past, or haven't played long enough to know different.

There have always been jerks, elitists, noobs, confused people who think they are on xbox live or WoW, and confused people who think MMOs are a form of free psychiatric help. There will always be those kinds of people.

Go forth and dare to be different! Offer to team up. Do something else if the jerk coefficient gets too high at a NM. Toss people cures and offer to help when someone is struggling. It may seem like a wasted effort at times, but it's not.

Anecdote:

My friend, back in the day, wanted a joytoy for his rdm. There was a JP duo camping it against with us. They claimed it when Charby popp'd. At around 50%, charby ate them. My sister raised them, we claimed and offered to team up. We lotted on the sword and the JPs won -- and stayed while charby popp'd again.

Even today, whenever I'm soloing a lower lv job, I've gotten cures, cheers, and buffs from random people walking by. The good outweighs the bad. If you don't like how some people are playing the game -- make an effort to be different.

We are the playerbase, not some amorphous, outside creature that we can't influence.

[Brolic]

zilart\tou hnms happened

[Lordscyon]

They have too much pride or think they are soo pro that they don't NEED any help killing mobs solo.

[Juri_Licious]

I just hate it when someone goes to go solo Audumbla, or some other NM with high health, and they sit there wasting everyone's time and refuse to let a party that can actually trigger procs help them.

[svengalis]

Everyone rather compete for mobs in [A] than teaming up. I didn't know I was playing WoW.

Hello, you must have just restarted. This has been a pretty common thing once people figured out how abyssea works. Some would just rather wait until you finish your pops, others will team up if you are farming seals sometimes cause it can make things go faster. A lot of people though would just rather not deal with competing with people over seals so they don't team up. It all depends on what you are doing. There is a lot of people who farm ki NM that won't team up with people who want seals from those same NM because it just slows them down.

[SpankWustler]

We all became part of Lil' B. He is now known as the "Player-Based God".