Just when I thought DF couldn't get any worse...

[HiirNoivl]

I'm moved to tears! ;_______; We must tank!! Eorzea depends on us!!

[Acyd]

I'm moved to tears! ;_______; We must tank!! Eorzea depends on us!!

Tank all the things!!!!

[rubina]

Did you report him?

How is OP supposed to know which server that player originated from?

[Matthew_John]

Is it bad that I find this funny?

its hilarious

[Eekiki]

its hilarious

The free trial period cannot end soon enough.

Yes, I know it won't eliminate all of the griefer kids, but it'll at least lower our chances of getting stuck in a PT with them.

[Zeille]

I don't get it. I always see "This is the worst/best community!" and it makes no sense. There are hundreds of thousands of people spread across all servers. There is no "community". There's a crapload of people, each of them wildly different. The more people that congregate, the higher your chances of running into both ends of the spectrum.

I see this about other websites too like reddit. There are too many people to call anything like that a community. This game is popular right now and has been getting a lot of good press. Everybody and their grandma who may have played an MMO at one time or another has probably heard about it and decided to check it out.

On topic: You ran into a selfish jerk. I hear there's a lot of those out there. It sucks, but that's what happens when you have hundreds of thousands of people playing a game.

[Jonath]

Neither am I. Which is why we need to work especially hard to make up for those who would disgrace crown and helm.
Use your strength to defend players who can't defend themselves no matter what.
Got a DD who can't follow your marks?
You fight on.
Your healer can't meditate health where its needed?
You fight on.
Got what you personally need from your duty?
You fight on till the end.

Your party is your life. Your job isn't over until everyone is done.

My exact Feelings As A Tank.

[NyneAlexander]

We need something like thedirty.com but for horrible FFXIV players with horrible attitudes. Its time to put the assholes on blast.

[JayCommon]

Man...

If y'all really think the DF is that damn bad, don't use it! Obviously the people complaining have full groups of real life friends on at all times with a dedicated ventrilo room for real time communication and just use the DF because they feel like it....

Oh you don't? Exactly. You are never going to be able to control the way people act. If you put some kind of deterrent in their path, it will be more fun for them to figure out a way around that to continue harassing people and screwing up their experience. FFXIV added a way for random people to group up for dungeons, instead of traveling to different locations to shout until your digital mouth explodes to find a full group for a party.

It's pathetic to see so many people skirting around the REAL issue....which is other people. You know full well the possibility of being grouped with morons in the DF, yet you still use it? It is only there to help you find a random group of people, it is NOT there to ensure the random people you find are trustworthy gamers.

So, for the OP to entitle his post "I thought the DF couldn't get any worse"....makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. The DF is working exactly as intended. The PEOPLE using the DF are the problem. Maybe SE could add some things to the DF to discourage people who using those tactics, but there is really no solution that would work for everyone. You can't ban people from leaving, what if they're net connection died? That isn't their fault. In the instance of the OP, yes that is pure dick move and that person should be banned. However, SE can't keep tabs on hundreds of thousands of concurrent plays at the same time.

In short, the DF works. Stop bashing a system that is trying to help, and proceed with more bashing of the actual people destroying the experience.

[Solshine]

I see so all you people that want cross server BL's will be adding all of us new people that have a hard time getting into instances once, and lack experience...Its so bad I'm avoiding these group instances till things settle down, and newcomers are treated better. My suggestion, have DF divided into degrees Beginner (players that have not cleared a instance once and need it to advance story will be matched with each other) 2nd group arranged parties playing after clearing duty once can do it in a pre-arranged party, 3rd advanced this crowd has done content more than 3 times. This would be nicer for those that need to do it once and want understanding players that the content is equally new to them as well.