Stop Giving the "Need" Command for Drop Gear in Dungeons to Higher Geared Players!

[Valenth]

I haven't read all 25 pages on here so it could be it has been brought up before, but the unwritten rule seems to have changed in the last year or so on this game.

Some while ago people wouldn't roll need on gear if they were obviously better geared so that everyone in the group had an equal shot at getting items. It was considered being nice to other players, upholding that FFXIV community spirit that we all were so proud of before ("It's not like WoW on here"). That mindset seemed to have ruled supreme until more recent times.

The game mechanics allow you to hoard the things all for yourself, so tough luck for the others, right? Wrong! We ALL need GC seals, desynthing and gil in general. Being nice is an actual conscious choice to make, just like being selfish is. It's just that it's a hell of a lot easier to be selfish, especially behind a monitor. However, the truth is people aren't born nice or nasty, they're making these choices actively, day in day out. Nice people also have selfish thoughts, but they actively chose not to act upon them for the sake of the greater good. And you know why? Because shit gets done when communities get united and we don't cheese out others of stuff just because we can. The world doesn't revolve around our individual selfs, but we're all pieces of a bigger whole and cannot succeed without others. So the arguments "I need it for these things" and "game mechanics allow me, so too bad" seem pretty moot if you ask me because we all need that stuff. Let's be honest, we all just want to justify being selfish, we all want to stop thinking of others constantly. Problem is that while genetically we're inclined to think of our individual selfs first, survival of the fittest after all, by doing so in this manner we decline the entire community as a whole and in the end, ourselves. Be it morally or physically, it will be snowballing out of control.

Bottom line, let's just default to greeding everything you see to give everyone a fair (<keyword) shot. Let's try to make this community better again together, yeah? Sure you'll run into people who aren't aware yet of anything past their own PoV and indeed as plenty have already opted on the previous pages, talking is the key in the end. I'll be sure to do my part and try to positively reinforce if I see people greed instead of need so that we're not normalizing ethical comprimise on these subjects.