Worst end game community ever?

Hit 50 about 3 days ago. This weekend is the first chance I've had to play around with some of the end game content. So far I've gotta say the overall dbagishness, eliteness of the end game players has seriously made me reconsider subscribing.

Experience #1

Doing palace VIA DUTY FINDER for the story-line. Get in. The first thing I get is two guys talking about how bad me (and a few others) armor is, it's crap, why are we here, blah,blah blah.

Then the 'speed grinding starts'. Absolutely no watching cut scenes were told. Chop chop. Throughout the whole map were constantly harped on for making mistakes, told how bad we are as DPS, yada, yada.

Here's my problem: You have all these "pro" players essentially farming the same dungeon over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over. Putting ungoldy amounts of time into farming their very special gear, then bitching whenever new players come along and disturb their mindless dungeon grind.

Experience #2
On my second end game raid again found VIA THE DUTY FINDER (I emphasize this because its not like I sought out groups looking for experience), the tank again decides it's a speed farm. Again we are all told no cut scenes allowed and to "chop chop". three of the first timers get turned around and the tank goes on without them. Two bosses end up being fought with two guys locked out for watching cut scenes. Like the last dungeon were yelled at the whole time.

The end game community in FF14 is terrible. It's like all the turds from WoW migrated to FF14.

A few points:

= IF you enjoy the game why are you farming the easiest and fastest dungeon over and over?

= IF you play MMO's because you want to play ONLINE with Other players why are you so anti-social?

=If you don't like pugs, don't want to run dungeons with new players WHY do you use the duty finder?

And for SE, why the hell did you make it so players can skip cut scenes and move ahead in the dungeon without the person watching the cut scene know? How did you manage to overlook this?

I want to like this game. From what I heard the older Final fantasy community was a good one, this community at end game is anything but. It's elitist with apparently no desire to try the more challenging aspects of the game, with no desire to communicate with other players and a general Dbagness attitude towards anyone not decked out like them.

People are completely insane right now.


Honestly, from what I've seen lately NA just can't handle this game.
There's absolutely no concept of anything but MAX DPS FULL TIME ALL THE TIME or GTFO


No helping anyone
No strategy
No Support

I think it'll take some time for these things to even out, and also not everyone is bad. But Holy Crap... As a community these bad attitudes/players are very very common.

You should watch the cutscenes anyway and tell them they're free to leave if they're such douchebags about it.

It's your right to watch them during the run, as the story unfolds, like it was designed to be enjoyed.

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Originally Posted by OrionInerghem

People are completely insane right now.


Honestly, from what I've seen lately NA just can't handle this game.
There's absolutely no concept of anything but MAX DPS FULL TIME ALL THE TIME or GTFO


No helping anyone
No strategy
No Support

I think it'll take some time for these things to even out, and also not everyone is bad. But Holy Crap... As a community these bad attitudes/players are very very common.

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They are hyper-agressive and have completely ruined end game for me. It's exactly as you said: MAX DPS GOGOGOGOGOGOG or GTFO. No one talks, all they do is yell "how dare you do that", "that dps is an idiot in crap armor". It's been one of the worst experiences I've had at any end-game.

Oh, I've seen much worse.
Just make some friends, join a FC, and avoid duty finder as much as possible.

The Speed Runner are ruining everything via Duty Finder. They will bitch and complains if you are new and watch cut scences. A lot of people already quitting this game over it. The problem is they have an end game dungeon tie into the Story Quest Mode, meaning you have to do this Dungeon. I wish I don't have to do it but I have to finish the Story Quest. I hope all the Elitist and Rusher get their crap soon and be server first or whatever so other can carry on that don't care.

I hope SE is doing something about this because to stop this Speed Run BS

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Originally Posted by Neasa

Oh, I've seen much worse.
Just make some friends, join a FC, and avoid duty finder as much as possible.

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I've been around MMO's for years from EQ1 to Darkfall and Mortal Online. Believe me, I've been around the cream of the crop in terms of straight online douches. But for a PvE focused game, this has taken the cake.

That said, SE deserves some blame here for throwing cut scenes randomly throughout end game dungeons (usually RIGHT before boss fights) and then allowing players to skip them without notifying others and splitting the ground during lockout.

And for not putting lockout timers on the 'speed farm' dungeons. It's unreal that people are literally spending their end game farming the same, easy dungeon over and over.

I'd like to note for Amdapor Keep, the gear requirements are a little higher than one would expect. That doesn't mean they should heckle you for it, but at least mention to you to get some darklight before attempting Amdapor Keep.

Did you mention on entry "This is my first time here, could you guys give me some leway and tips?"