Sick of unjust vote dismisses

[MageBlack]

Only time I ever vote kicked anyone was when there was three of us premade, just entered a dungeon when our fourth friend logged on, so to avoid a penalty for anyone, we vote kicked the poor DPS and left the instance. I felt so bad, we were all on skype and talked it out but no one said a word in the game chat.

[CrystalRainbow]

Can't use /tell in dungeons.

If it happens rarely it's someone just being a jerk, If it's happening a lot it's your play style.
Rarely to me is getting kick 1/100 runs.
Anything more then that, you are likely the issue.

I've been kicked maybe 5 times.
3 times I know I asked to be kicked because they players where so bad.

[Ayuhra]

People seem to be less vote-kick happy in this game than the one I left. I'm a new player (2 months) so I am hot garbage compared to people who have played enough that the combat gameplay is second nature. I have yet to be kicked.... Although.... If I feel like I am grossly underperforming, dying too much, whatever I tend to jump the group myself and eat the penalty timer. I hate feeling like I'm holding people back. So maybe I just preempt vote kicks, who knows?

[Destinova]

People seem to be less vote-kick happy in this game than the one I left. I'm a new player (2 months) so I am hot garbage compared to people who have played enough that the combat gameplay is second nature. I have yet to be kicked.... Although.... If I feel like I am grossly underperforming, dying too much, whatever I tend to jump the group myself and eat the penalty timer. I hate feeling like I'm holding people back. So maybe I just preempt vote kicks, who knows?

As long as you are trying your best then there is no problem. The thing I complain about is when in low level dungeons say Haukke manor and there are dps wearing level 10 gear, Yes yes its an easy dungeon but to make it even easier and take 15 minutes less come with the correct gear.

[h0tNstilettos]

Vote kick is definitely abused. I've seen it happen to others for no reason where I refused the vote in favor of the one they wanted to kick, and I've had it happen to myself 3 times playing since ARR beta.

Here are just some examples:

-I was in a 4 player group, and because the tank was a fan of My Little Pony, they got kicked. I of course did not vote against tank. The other DPS made a snide remark about 'bronies' before throwing up vote kick. The healer didn't say anything and was silent, but that DPS and the healer are the ones that approved the vote. And no, the tank was not throwing around MLP related macros or spamming chat with MLP talk. Been long time, but if I remember correctly, before the duty started he had typed a comment in chat as though he was talking to a fellow MLP fan, but he had mentioned it was the wrong chat, as I think it was meant for FC. Of course everyone has at one point accidentally said something in the wrong chat. Either way the entire thing aggravated me because I'm a fan of MLP, though I'm not a male, but doesn't matter as it's abuse and no reason to kick someone. I wanted to tell that DPS off so bad, but I don't have a keyboard and had no time to slow type.

-In another example, one where I was kicked, it was T9 and I had mentioned I was new to it and I expected it to go badly even though I watched a video guide of it multiple times before attempt. One of the other players said, "Let's just see how it goes." It went very smooth, no getting hit by stuff I shouldn't be, I even stacked during the attack we're suppose to stack, I also did not get any meteors on me so I did not have to worry about placing them, so no issues at all until the golems. During the golems I did everything right and was attacking the one I was suppose to be (and no colors did not switch yet with me attacking wrong one), but then from behind us a super golem walks up on us. Basically someone else in the party messed up. Then after resetting, everyone was just standing there and someone asked, "Why?" I thought the why was wondering about the wipe, but when my screen went black and said I had been dismissed I was baffled as that was an excellent first attempt with me making no mistakes. Now I know the "Why?" was someone not understanding why there was a vote kick to dismiss me. Afterwards, I went to check Lodestone for every player in group and turned out 5 or 6 of them were from the same FC on a different server. I even posted a thread here in the community to review the fight with the community wondering if I did something wrong that I was not aware of, but turns out I didn't, which I already knew since super golem spawn came from behind us where other party embers were. So to me it seems they jumped to conclusions and assumed I was the one that messed up, meaning they weren't paying attention to where I was at and what I was doing or they would have known. That or they kicked just to replace with a fellow FC member that came on. Either way it was abuse.

So yes, vote kick is abused. Something need to be adjusted. If queues for all jobs were fast it wouldn't be as big an issue, but for DPS that havae to wait a half hour to get in and then another 20 minutes plus to last boss only to get kicked for no reason is absurd.

[Miya_Carbuncle]

I got kicked once for talking too much. As the healer I made sure everyone was at 85% HP or higher and I did some dps aswell. The dungeon run was smooth, but the tank did not like that I was trying to be friendly to the group. I asked questions like how is everyone doing? or what are you looking forward to the new expansion (this was last year), but the tank was not happy and just before the final boss, he typed my name + goodbye and I got kicked.

Now whenever I join a dungeon, I type Hi and Goodbye, those are the only words that I use when playing with strangers.

Wow, really? So you have just one bad experience, and now you'll never talk to anyone? ...Really?

Dude, have fun and talk to people. :l One experience shouldn't change that, really. Especially when you're not sure if that really was why, it's possible they wanted to get a guild member in the group or something.

Just... wow. I don't understand why people would completely change who they are because of one experience that really wasn't all that bad.

I think you took it too personally, honestly. Move on and don't let it change you. It's really not a big deal to get kicked one time and once again, you don't even really know why.