NO PARTY KICKS!

[darkstarpoet1]

i think you should be spending more time with a shrink and less time in a mmo. this seems like a much deeper issue of feeling not accepted than it does being upset over a party kick.

if you friend just goes afk then they are harassing other members and they have every right to kick them as the game itself even has a kick feature for being afk too long. yes, the kick feature does impact the person that's being kicked, but not being able to kick someone impacts the other 3-23 people running the content with them negatively. the kick feature is a positive thing for the majority of a party since it does require a majority vote.

yes, there are some rude players that are abusing the kick feature, but the vast majority only use it when needed as it was intended.

That has less to do with catering to the modern mmo crowd and more the fact that more people played the game in the first.
Granted i didn't play before ARR but i seen it happening in sooo many other games and people keep saying stuff like this.
The % of assholes stays the same but because more people play, there are more of them aswell.

i have to disagree with you here completely. in 1.0 the servers knew who their rude and abusive players were and avoided them. they did so because it was such a small percentage of players. on karnak there were only 2-3 people that were known rude and abusive and those people had major issues getting into any party. those people are no longer restrained to their own servers due to duty finder so they get to go and harass other people from other servers now since the people on their own sever will not play with them. then you bring over this "new" mmo gamer that wants everything now with zero effort and you have a total mess.