Ohai, Krystal!

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.
Iunno what population you're seeing... might just be your server. Honestly, the majority of people I talk to are generally well-mannered and get along well. I've had a few idiots, like those who like to shout completely incorrect information and lash out when corrected politely, but for the most part there's not a lot of "noob bashing" going on.

As for raises, it was already stated - there are a lot of ways of having RR up that if you do not have one, it is your fault. You shouldn't expect people to stop for you and raise you when you're the one who made the mistake. Besides which, it is easy to suck up the small EXP loss and take the 5 minutes to get back to where you were; honestly you'd probably spend more time complaining and/or begging for a Raise and then waiting for weakness to wear off. Mistakes happen, move on with life.

Also, shoot people on the spot? Now we're begging favors off of CORs or RNGs too as well as asking for Raises. =(

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.
Yellow is fair game. It's not polite etiquette, I agree, and most people will frown upon it, but at the same time no one gives you the divine right to those mobs at that camp. Learn to share, and if you don't like it? Simply go elsewhere. They have just as much right as you do.

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.
Do tell how they have MPK potential. Impetus, Despoil, Blood Rage, T2-circle JAs, etc... I see no MPK potential. I'm curious to see how they'd do it now, please enlighten me.

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.
Let me sum this up for you:

ITT: Welcome to MMO gaming.

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