Why Does It Feel Like Poor Play Is Acceptable (I'm Venting.)

[spagthetapdancer]

Not to be rude or anything, but it’s highly ironic that you’re talking about elitist attitudes when your post reeks of its own type of elitism....

"Distrust" is the impression I was going for. I don't trust people who make hyperbolic judgements enough to allow them to hold me to their standards and you shouldn't either. that goes for my standards as well, you shouldn't allow yourself to be ruled by what I consider acceptable. You have no reason to trust my judgement and I have no reason to trust yours so any of us demanding that the other does is as good a reason to throw the other in the trash as far as I'm concerned.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/n...eply&p=4518489
I’m not sure how much you have frequented the OF, but I would highly recommend reading The Tales of the Duty Finder thread. While they’re all personal experiences, I feel like the thread probably does a decent enough job of proving that the types of players OP has mentioned in his opening post do exist—probably in larger numbers than you think.

If you want more quantifiable examples that are not a personal account, I would suggest just browsing the lowest percentiles on a certain website that everyone here loves to hate. People dislike parses and logs, but they certainly don’t lie.

I don't frequent the OF and I don't really plan to. I was here reading on another topic linked from Reddit(which I also rarely browse). I'm well aware of these players as I've been a moderately active tank and healer in DF for about 3 years now. but they're easy examples and neither you nor I have any real idea how common they are.

as for FFlogs, the only thing I truly hate about them is that the site compiles my information from other peoples' parses. if the site only showcased the data of the player that uploaded it I'd have zero complaints. it's purely a privacy thing.

Congratulations. You have joined the cavalcade of people who lacks basic reading comprehension skills. The OP went out of their way to make this thread as diplomatic as possible, yet you're one throwing around insults. How ironic.

I also didn't realize asking people to press 1-2-3 in sequence required some additional skillset unique to "elitists." I suppose the advance steps will be adding 4-5-6. Wouldn't want to make it too difficult.

Edit: Fair enough on your apology.

I'm just the "quick to get heated, quick to cool" sort. I also have some pretty big attention span problems(like lists X_X). I can make quick judgement calls so tanking/healing has been my main thing over the years, but dpsing oftentimes calls for an outright 18 skill opening rotation that I literally cannot juggle all in order. that was one of the reasons I couldn't play HW WAR and played PLD/AST/SCH instead.