I started the game due to my girlfriend, and she warned me to watch the cutscenes on youtube. I did. I told my group that I was new, but that I would be skipping cutscenes in hopes of keeping up.

I got laughed at.

The group ran so fast that I got locked out of the 2nd boss fight - EVEN SKIPPING CUTSCENES. The load times alone made me fall behind.

My girlfriend said that she would be staying with me, so if they wanted a healer they could afford to wait the literally 3 seconds for me to catch up.

They locked us BOTH out of the final battle and laughed at us for being upset.

I know that "there are always bad apples, you just had rotten luck", but if I hadn't had my girlfriend right there reassuring me that it would never happen again, I would have quit the game. The experience completely soured the victory I should have felt at finally beating ARR.

If it was that bad for me, how would it be for all these new players coming in?