How long before you met your first nasty user?

[Terius]

FFXI & 1.0 players on 'new' servers pointing out everyone's errors and mistakes on day 1, claiming their playtime on XI/1.0 made them superior players by default.

And I thought the problem was the, 'WoW kiddies' we hear so much about.

[Grefia]

I met my first nasty player when I transferred servers. I played beta, and on Goblin. Met a lot of really nice helpful people. Then I moved to an EU server, and it is normal to see rude comments toward people in groups. Players stepping over bodies instead of raising them, when there is no good reason not to. Also, I've helped people who were obviously in trouble by healing them, then of course I get all their mobs. Then they run off and leave me to deal with them. This happens a lot. I've raised people in the middle of a battle (FATE), then when it is over, they run off and leave me. Even when they have a raise skill. Today in several runs, we were trying to help new people in HM dungeons, and 3 of 4 healers were very rude and made terrible comments when anyone made the slightest mistake. Rudeness is not going to help make better players... I did come here with a nice group of friends so I try to avoid grouping with anyone outside the FC.

[eternalstar01]

I was running CM with a couple of friends... and while the person in question wasn't rude towards me, he was being rude towards my friend. My friend handled everything graciously, by saying things back to the rude person like, "I like you. Let's be friends." It was actually really funny to watch, but also probably the best way I have seen rudeness handled. The guy eventually stopped.

[Marael]

Day one I met a jerk screaming at people for being so stupid that they couldn't even do the first dungeon in the game... ON THE FIRST DAY WHEN NO ONE KNEW HOW TO PLAY YET!!!

You know, before I transferred servers, my blacklist was full of RMT spammers. After I switched servers to join RL friends and had the blacklist autowiped, it's now full again... but this time there isn't a SINGLE RMT on it. It's full of douchebags and assholes instead. I've never seen so many players with so little respect for other people in over ten years of MMO gaming.

[Sogi]

Day one I met a jerk screaming at people for being so stupid that they couldn't even do the first dungeon in the game... ON THE FIRST DAY WHEN NO ONE KNEW HOW TO PLAY YET!!!

You know, before I transferred servers, my blacklist was full of RMT spammers. After I switched servers to join RL friends and had the blacklist autowiped, it's now full again... but this time there isn't a SINGLE RMT on it. It's full of douchebags and assholes instead. I've never seen so many players with so little respect for other people in over ten years of MMO gaming.

but you sound like the player you are describing. lets be honesYT@!

[Marael]

but you sound like the player you are describing. lets be honesYT@!

I know you certainly do.

[SummonerSenah]

It was probably about a couple of months in. I was running Aurum Vale with two people (warrior and bard) from my FC, and we pugged the healer through Duty Finder. We got a Scholar in AF gear who spam healed himself when the tank was low on health, and kept running ahead and pulling mobs, resulting in wipes. The tank was like "why did you do that?" The healer didn't answer, so we theorized maybe it was someone running some kind of bot. So the tank was like "say something or I'll report you." Finally the healer, after not having responded to any previous questions, replied with "go ahead I don't care." We were going to leave the dungeon after that (this was before vote kick was implemented), but luckily the healer left and we got another healer and finished the dungeon.

[Anandra]

Unfortunately have met some really nasty folks after hitting 50. WP has been bad. First time I ran it, I had four people bail before it even started. One of the DPS told me it was because I had beginner gear. Lately, if a speed run doesn't go as planned, I see people becoming horrible to one another. Woe to the healer if they can't keep up with huge pulls...never mind that they may not be geared up. I'm avoiding AK since my first run through was do dreadful. I was berated for standing in the wrong place, pay attention, etc. Need to gather up my courage and just do it again for practice. Now that I'm geared much more, should be a bit easier.

Most folks say nothing but some players out there are really, really socially inept and perhaps suffer from extreme anger issues. I feel a bit sorry for them.

[Elkya95]

When I first started playing the game I was on a JP server because it had room for me, didn't have a lot of issues even if we really didn't communicate at all because I know almost no Japanese. Then Brayflox came in, keep in mind this is my first mmo, I was going on my paladin had been reading up on the dungeon and I was afraid of what sort of people I'd get. They seemed really nice to begin with telling me all the strategies and were speaking English and all that. They did tell me a few times during the run that I had to use flash more, which I did, then the final boss came and I died, I lost aggro and never got it back, this happened twice before the healer told me that every tank that day sucked then left. I made a new character on a US server after that, now I have sooo many more friends and yes I see mean people still, and yes I quit tanking because of mean people, but man Brayflox and AV are the two places I dread to return to...

[Jamez82]

I have met my fair share of jerks. It started happening after I hit 50, it was like every person just hated for he sake of hating. This game has a serious problem with people like this and it will be the downfall.
I heard people talk about quitting tanking or healing because of rudeness (I'm one of them), I've heard of people so mean they caused others to quit playing entirely (a friend actually did that).
Why are people like this? I can only assume they have nothing in real life and lash out to people in a game because what can we do about it?
If thats the case then it makes me feel less angry with them and more sorry but.. the only one who can change your life is you.