A Grave State Of Affairs

[Kiregean]

Reply to Amberion: Multiple times I have. The fools make comments like "OMG why don't you have your relic?! GTFO newbie, you're going to make us wipe" or "WTF he doesn't even have any DL pieces, where's the kick function!?" Then there's my absolute favourite "We're fucked, retard queued with his pre-Relic and no DL"

It's a sad situation that these cretins are increasing in number as well and funny enough I've yet to "wipe" one of their groups and in many times by the end have been told it was one of the smoothest runs they've had (generally by the healer, they seem less belligerent)

[Amberion]

Multiple times I have. The fools make comments like "OMG why don't you have your relic?! GTFO newbie, you're going to make us wipe" or "WTF he doesn't even have any DL pieces, where's the kick function!?"

It's a sad situation that these cretins are increasing in number as well and funny enough I've yet to "wipe" one of their groups and in many times by the end have been told it was one of the smoothest runs they've had (generally by the healer, they seem less belligerent)

That kinda sucks. Maybe my duty finder server is just nicer, or people playing on my time frame are just nicer all round.

[Havenchild]

I've been in several situations where me watching a cutscene, got me locked out from a boss fight.That is the groups fault not mine.If your going to use Duty Finder for your party and most people running dungeons for the first time DO use Duty Finder, especially the story dungeons, then you as a person need to deal with it.

I've never had to deal with a situation yet where someone told me to skip the cutscenes but if I was told to by anyone,I would respectfully decline and finish watching. For one,the cutscenes in the Inn have nowhere near as immersive value as when you watch them during the first run instance. Imagine running CM without looking at the cutscenes, or skipping your first cutscene of Garuda, the first time you fought her? Hell no.

Not to mention if people want to run ahead and lock me out, as the White Mage of the group, I hope you die for being in such a rush. I will not skip a cutscene I have never seen before for no one. If you don't like it, you can be replaced.

[Hairo]

Sorry but can't resist...especially when "entitiled ****" comes out.

"I take my time very seriously"
...play MMO, and reply on a thread like this...
How serious.

Sigh...gone are the days where MMO is supposed to be full of surprise, adventure, full of unknown, excitement, awe and wonder...there ups and downs, and bittersweet moments experienced together with friends, foes and strangers alike.
And now gamer being called "some entitled ***" because not wanting to spoil actually playing a game.
I don't know why people nowadays are "playing" game like a job...it is really appalling how MMO player-base transformed since the days of UO...
I think WoW transformed the MMO landscape...making everything so theme-park like, so care-free, so easy, and fast-food-like.

I don't know...
/rant off

aye lmao i know exactly what you mean, even in eqoa and eq2 i use to just sit with mates and grind gaints and just talk and enjoy the company.

[Alavastre]

Wow, what an original post.

[EA9Sol]

Sheesh! I don't understand why so many players are being rude. I mean everyone was new at one point or another. FF XIV ARR is my first big mmorpg I've played and so far I'd only had a few bad runs in dungeons. Hell, I even re did some lower dungeons with my hubby and had a few new players and it went just fine. Even let them watch the cs. No sweat off my back. As long as we do a good job and have fun that is all I care for...and some good loot of course.

But, not matter where you go you'll have those elite players who seem to think they are better then anyone else. Sad really.

[Volcano]

To be fair to those players though. You need 5 months of AK runs for full AF2 and Relic +1 for 1 job. That is somewhat around 150 times in AK. Wouldn't you want to cut down the time spent in AK as much as possible? Or at least understand that some people want?

That does not apply to everyone, the example you just gave applies only to people trying to rush down gear quickly. I personally would do other dungeons for tomes and other things in general, to take a break from grinding, if you do to much of it to fast, you become quite irritable. and snappy. if you learn to take breaks from what you are spamming you'd be surprised how calm you are when you actually go for it again at a latter date. there is no one trying to kill you if you don't have said gear asap.

The biggest issue with this problem is that when these mad rushers actually do get said gear, they have nothing left to do, then we get people complaining about lack of content and not enough to do and demanding updates to quickly over the actual plans they had. because they went for everything so fast, they now left them selves with nothing to do.


wait... like now.

[Sove92]

To be fair to those players though. You need 5 months of AK runs for full AF2 and Relic +1 for 1 job. That is somewhat around 150 times in AK. Wouldn't you want to cut down the time spent in AK as much as possible? Or at least understand that some people want?

The cost of AF2 gear will be adjusted in later patches.

[Quesse]

Sigh...gone are the days where MMO is supposed to be full of surprise, adventure, full of unknown, excitement, awe and wonder...there ups and downs, and bittersweet moments experienced together with friends, foes and strangers alike.
And now gamer being called "some entitled ***" because not wanting to spoil actually playing a game.
I don't know why people nowadays are "playing" game like a job...it is really appalling how MMO player-base transformed since the days of UO...
I think WoW transformed the MMO landscape...making everything so theme-park like, so care-free, so easy, and fast-food-like.

You're so right. So where to place the blame?

Are the companies that create the environments which encourage this behavior to blame or the players themselves?

[Pronsolo]

I'm not agreeing that its acceptable behavior to yell at people for something so stupid as making them skip cutscenes but if it was not meant to be played this way they would have made the cut-scene's unskippable.

They made the cut scene skippable because they know these dungeons will be run multiple times, You dont have to watch them every time hence the skip option. All the dungeons where folks get yelled at seem to be ones you will be running on more than once so i will for sure watch the cut scene the first time through and if peeps have a problem with that then they can leave me behind or leave group i dont mind. Even as a dps i will wait for the 40 min queues to experience the cut scenes as they were meant to be watched.