(Rant Post) Why Does It Feel Like Giving Advice Is Evil?

[Squintina]

A lot of people can't handle being told that they should try to be good at a game (I wonder how those people handle really difficult single player games....), so they lash out and call people who dare give advice no-lifers, with this stereotype that people who give advice are elite players who spend tens of hours a day playing.

Then you have a lot of people who don't want to deal with the drama, so even though they might be ok with getting advice, they'll jump down on anyone who dares to give advice to others in the party to try to shut that down.

All you can do is try to get like-minded people from FC/statics and go with them.

Of course this isn't everyone. Yesterday I finally got around to doing the trial for MSQ (what? I was enjoying other content like the active hunt linkshells, active marketboard, and command missions. No need to rush. Patches are great for doing things that aren't just new content.) and people were super nice about those of us late-msq-ers asking for just 1 try of a blind run so we'd get that "day 1" experience. Then once we failed (majorly), they respectfully gave advice and no one took it badly.