Quote Originally Posted by AiChyan View Post
Studying the fight
Just quoting you for that (inb4 out of context : studying beforehand to get a guess at what's coming)

Doesn't it sound extremely wrong ? Studying for a game ? It's not a job, nor school. You have no exam at the end.

Imho, that's the point in the toxic behaviors we can see (like, KILL EXP OR GTFO, 1 ERROR = KICK or others in PF after 3 days in a new patch on brand new content ? ). People became so impatient, they lost so much the fun out of playing that they only want to get their shinies (aka tomes, or gear, or whatever), and do not value anymore the time spent chatting with people, teaching newbs, socializing.

in following examples, (...) means nothing is said at all

typical DF is :
=> <Hello!>
=> (...)
=> <Good job!> <Take care!>

End of the story. Insert random flaming if a wipe occurs with new player who didn't say they were new, rage quitting on trials, and so on.

Typical (non learning) PF is :
=> Hello, call your loot
=> (agreement made on loot and eventually strategy used)
=> (...)
=> kthxbye can't go on
=> party disbands

Typical (learning) PF is :
=> Hello, have you watched a video ?
(=> if party leader is a jerk, get booted out if you haven't. Usually get told to watch one, "please")
=> if a veteran is here, he might explain the important guidelines
=> wipe twice
=> kthxbye, can't go on
=> party disbands



And now I ask you : When can we have a social community ? Tbh, I'm bored of playing solo in a MMO. Meeting strangers that don't matter because I don't care of them, I do my dungeon and just never meet them again, even in PF... I think the most social experience I've had (apart from my tiny FC) was a PvP linkshell, because we were so bored of waiting 20+ mins to get a fight that we were chatting randomly and just being happy of playing together. That was my fist social experience with strangers in FFxiv. Not that I wasn't trying though. But you know, being the only one speaking in a dungeon for an hour or more is kinda boring after 6 month