The cycle of disbanding that keep casuals from doing content

[Ivy_Dresden]

Speaking from experience I've had players join learning groups just to troll them to failure. 5-10 mins later PF "1.5 mil for T6-T9 clear. 2 mil for Shiva ex clear. Same player. You best watch who gets invited to the group. They want more people to exploit. Not less.

[Ellatrix]

Speaking from experience I've had players join learning groups just to troll them to failure. 5-10 mins later PF "1.5 mil for T6-T9 clear. 2 mil for Shiva ex clear. Same player. You best watch who gets invited to the group. They want more people to exploit. Not less.

Nobody who can actually sell T9 does so for 1.5m. Sounds like you just had someone who likes to do nothing more than troll all day.

[Ivy_Dresden]

Nobody who can actually sell T9 does so for 1.5m. Sounds like you just had someone who likes to do nothing more than troll all day.

Sounds like you're on the wrong server. Prices for raid and trial clears must be pretty low on your server.

[Sadonix]

Nobody who can actually sell T9 does so for 1.5m. Sounds like you just had someone who likes to do nothing more than troll all day.

Just wondering,Which are you trying to suggest ? that the price number is too low or too high ?

Btw here t6 clear was around 3.5m last week(source from the clear seller themselves).

[Exstal]

Ugh lets not get defensive. All I am trying to imply is that there those of us who cant meet the demands of a static and those that can. I personally dont have the time to put xiv on a static schedule. Between work and other social obligations, ffxiv time is sporadic.

Then there are those of us that can. Idk which adjectives to use but thats all Im trying to say. Theres busy and too busy for XIV statics.

You basically don't have time to play MMOs.

Sounds like you're on the wrong server. Prices for raid and trial clears must be pretty low on your server.

Shiva 2m and SCoB:T4 1.5m? That sounds wrong. Shiva is 3m here, and SCoB:T4 is 10m.

[Lux_Rayna]

You basically don't have time to play MMOs.

I dont have time to play MMOs on a schedule. Clearly I have time to play MMOs. You can tell based on my profile.

[NyarukoW]

Every single time we have a free login weekend, we get latency increases across the board meaning that doing anything that requires more than facerolling i.e. Coil gets exponentially harder because of this. Effectively, paying customers are being disadvantaged by freeloaders....

Sure this guy may not be representative of all raiders, but his precious coils is being messed up by new players, returning players, etc. all the noobness, more people he wants to exclude. Sure isn't helping the raider's reputation.

I can exclude or not run with whoever the hell I want, for any reason.

Good luck trying to exclude people on the DF. And even the iLevel filter on the PF class requirements isn't going to really going exclude people. Gear level never equaled skill anyway. And if you are not the PF creator you don't have the kick hammer. Good luck trying to exclude people. It is more likely you can exclude yourself from others is about all you can do.

At one year in, speed running is the standard, all players are speedrunners.

Speed runs are not standard. And plenty of players are NOT speed runners. Most of my FC do not speed run and certainly do NOT force people to speed run like speed runners do. When people need Prae and CM, we get two tanks or healers to got with them make sure they are not forced to skip their cutscenes.

I can't spend my entire day spoon-feeding idiots too dense to see or hear the dive-bomb marker. ..

That is just showing your hatred and contempt for newer players and newbies. The vast majority of them are not asking for a carry or being spoon-fed. They are looking for opportunities to learn. Being more inclusive is right choice, the only limitation is all our time are finite, but at the least we can start with taking a more inclusive attitude.

Speaking from experience I've had players join learning groups just to troll them to failure. 5-10 mins later PF "1.5 mil for T6-T9 clear. 2 mil for Shiva ex clear. Same player. You best watch who gets invited to the group. They want more people to exploit. Not less.

Nobody who can actually sell T9 does so for 1.5m. Sounds like you just had someone who likes to do nothing more than troll all day.

Nope, that is not trolling, and it no conspiracy, it is just doing the work to drum up business. The smart ones probably even use alt characters to do so.


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... Craigs list...error party finder. It's party finder not friend finder.

Go. Connect. With. People.

The PF is craig list? Really? I thought player play a MMO to connect with people. Now you telling people they shouldn't use the tool intended for connecting people, but let the PF just be a place to clear sellers to adverise? Seriously? So people should not meet people on e-harmony either too right? PF should not be e-harmony right? Pray tell what in practical terms what is "Go. Connect. With. People." The OP has more than the taken the initiative and it not for lack of trying or patience.

[Tiggy]

Here we go again. NyarukoW returns.



Get it through your head Nyaruko. No one has enough time in the day to be perfectly inclusive for every person who walks in front of them. What you're asking for is not only ridiculous, but physically and temporally impossible. You need to align your expectations with reality. Asking people to be inclusive over and over will never change that very real physical and time limitation.

[NyarukoW]

.... No one has enough time in the day to be perfectly inclusive for every person who walks in from of them......

No one is asking for perfection or doing this for every person. You sure love to make up starwmans. For starters, you can start with shedding the shameless clear seller attitude like this:

If someone is willing to pay as an incentive to take them through content, I'm willing to make the exchange.

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.... Asking people to be inclusive over and over will never change that very real physical and time limitation.

There are many things that can done within the very real "physical and time limitation". Starting with do not waste time spreading false accusations about the vast majority of players just want to be spoonfed, carried, etc., when that is so far from the truth. And it would not kill anyone to join a learning PF, when you roll a 6 with a die, once in a while. Might actually meet some people you can connect with for a change.

[Tiggy]

No one is asking for perfection or doing this for every person.

You are. You're continued persistence on this matter has made that perfectly clear.

For starters, you can start with shedding the shameless clear seller attitude like this:


There are many things that can done within the very real "physical and time limitation". Starting with do not waste time spreading false accusations about the vast majority of players just want to be spoonfed, carried, etc., when that is so far from the truth.

Something that I have NEVER DONE. Even in this very thread I've specifically said I have never ever sold a run. This is your problem right here. This is why your message is so bad. I've literally told you I don't do these things and yet pages later the fact you ignored what I said becomes so clearly apparent. Then you attempt to disparage me based on your ridiculous accusations. You lump all raiders into this run selling player chastising group and you threw me in there despite the fact I've told you I don't do the things you despise. You ignore every post made that says those terrible people are the minority and that many raiders are better than that. You're continued failure to grasp that your world view isn't the only accurate one is appalling. Then you go on to make an appalling accusation against me by using a quote from BobtheBlackMage. You call me shameless and yet this is the most shameless thing in this entire thread.

This weekend alone I spent over 10 hours helping people. Hours in Shiva, hours getting Ramuh clears, a Levi Ex, and Moogle Ex, even a T5 clear, and as a bonus some of these people weren't even in my FC but were instead friends of friends. You sit here in this very thread and disparage me and yet I spent half my weekend helping people. You are not accurately identifying who is bad and who isn't. You need to stop. You're very seriously taking things in an insulting direction and are treating people you don't know with contempt.

Put simply...
EVERY SINGLE RAIDER ISN'T SOME DARK AND EVIL BEING WHO HATES OTHERS.

I know what you'll say to that though. "I never said they were dark and evil." It's called a metaphor. Something you've shown a complete inability to comprehend throughout this thread.

You're attitude is worse than the worst raiders I've ever seen. Yet you think you're helping. It's sad. You're rhetoric is insulting. You're opinions one sided. You continue to ask people to think of the "casual" or whatever you want to call them, but you've shown a complete inability to do the same in return. This isn't a debate. It's like talking to a wall.