Quote Originally Posted by Krystal View Post
Most players i see online now at days noob bash every chance they get...refuse to help others...and just down right have no respect for other players in general. My linkshell chat has had more than 20 messages in the past week in it reading"Omg! i'm dead here and this *Insert class with the ability to raise others here* runs right by and does nothing after i send them a tell asking for a raise!" or something similar. and you can't say "well maybe they couldn't?" when most players now at days are wearing their AF3 which is a dead give-away of what job they are playing at that moment. and if they don't have the ability to at least cast Raise 1 they need to be shot on the spot for being an noob and burning their job to 90 without getting ANY of the required spells for their job.

Players invading a party's camp and killing the mobs they are obviously exping with thus reducing the exp flow and refusing to leave when asked nicely. players MPKing other players. ya i've seen it...many of the "new job abilities and spells" have MPK potential. and the GM calls go ignored.

there are many other issues but to get into them would cause yet another troll bait thread so i'm gonna keep those out of this one.

The point of this thread is i am worried about the path FFXI is on as a whole. not just the game itself but the players also. i'd really hate to say it but FFXI at this moment reminds me alot of WoW. not the game itself totally..but the players mostly. the game only reminds me a little bit. At this moment between rude players and updates making this game easier which attracts those types of players...FFXI is gonna go down in flames at this rate unless something is done.

anyone else notice this? or is everyone else blissfully unaware or ignoring it? if your blissfully unaware count yourself lucky...>.>;
I think you're wrongfully accusing the player base as a whole on these problems. For every person you see be an ass there's probably 20 others who aren't. They're never noticed because the asses are vocal because they need attention.

As far as the bit about raising goes, it's not another players duty to fix your mistake. Why are people obligated to raise you outside of group activities? It reminds me of the shout match in Jeuno the other day. People couldn't shut up about paying for warrior cleave, like it's a warriors duty to PL your butt for free and for as long as you need them to. Then there's the whole lame argument about leeches making poor players yet somehow the Abyssea alliance exp doesn't, but I won't get into that non sense.

My view of raising is simple. If you can't be bothered to use RR then I can't be bothered to raise you. Sometimes that means people get shafted when they are using RR but died as soon as they got up, but such a thing is so rare to happen outside of group activities that I am not going to assume you got shafted. There's so many ways to get it now that it's inexcusable not to have it, and I suspect I'll get hit by lightning before I pass someone who needs raise because they died after getting up from RR. If all I ever do is raise you then you'll never bother with using RR, and will start to grow dependent on a raise.

Nothing irritates me more than having someone beg for raise because they screwed up and they want YOU to take a time out from what YOU are doing to FIX it. No thanks. I'll raise you if I feel like it. If I don't, don't take it personally and bad mouth me behind my back. Learn to use RERAISE. Everytime I forget and often I do, I homepoint my butt because it's what I deserve for forgetting. I expect nothing less of everyone else.

RR scroll. RR FoV. RR earring. RR2 neck. RR heart rod 24 hour. RR heart rod 10 charges. RR3 rod. RR spell. RR2 spell. RR3 spell. Bard RR song. Scapegoat RR. RR med. RR2 med. RR3 med. That's all I can think of off the top of my head and there may very well be more.

Lastly, I imagine the reason GMs started using auto response and such is because 1)some probably moved to FFXIV, and if not then 2)they got tired of dealing with crap from players. Crap like people thinking it's funny to waste a GMs and everyone else's time by faking a call only to ask them a stupid pointless question. I can't imagine them ignoring legit calls to solve a positioning problem and such which is basically their #1 job for the game, is to fix stuff when things go wrong with #2 being to enforce the law like dealing with disruptive behavior. Everything else is pretty much a waste of their time.