Quote Originally Posted by bokchoykn View Post
In all honesty, FFXIV has the lowest average skill level amongst its players out of every online game I've ever played.
You sure that isn't rose tinted glasses you're looking through? Consider:
  • Most other MMOs also didn't have unforgiving mechanics in fights that depended on players twitch skills when the game's own netcode was/is horrible in the first place (Twisters, plumes, landslide).
  • The ease in which you can get into raids with DF and PF also means you're meeting more random people, which naturally increases your chances of meeting bad players.
  • Most MMOs to do end game content you pretty much needed to get into static groups. Static groups of course will display better skill and synergy.
  • There's a lot of hand-holding in the game. Which may allow some people to actually hit 50 and gear up a lot more than their actual skill level.
  • Odd game mechanics. I've come across people who did not realise to dodge AoE you needed to be out of the AoE animation before the cast bar finishes and had nothing to do with the animation itself. They were not actually bad players, it's just not an intuitive design. Once they were enlightened to that fact, their performance improved immensely.
All this just makes it more obvious, and I think not necessarily means that other MMOs had better skilled players.