After playing FFXI for a few weeks, cant wait for Trusts!

[Ceridwenae]

I feel as though you are making light of a serious mental illness in the first section here, but your second section basically supports the need for more grouped content so, thanks.

I actually have social anxiety. I did not read Aryalandi's comment as if they were making light of mental illness in any way. In fact, they said something I could've said myself. Playing games such as this is recommended for social anxiety, but that doesn't mean you automatically are able or want to partake of grouped content. Some days that's actually really hard. Trusts will certainly help for those days.

Also, sometimes my family isn't playing and then I definitely don't want to do higher level, more stressful content with a bunch of people I don't know, particularly when I'm not as familiar with the instance as I'd like. Trusts could help me become more familiar with that content at my own comfort level, and then I can take a leap, if I feel ready, to run stuff with real people. I'd like it to be extended back over as many previous dungeons as possible for this reason.


Playing games helps me get outside of my brain in a way that I can forget about the anxiety, even just for a bit and I actually enjoy dungeons a lot. I just have a heap of baggage I drag around with me, some days more than other days. It's not really reasonable to expect other people who aren't aware of this to put up with it if I have a fail moment in a dungeon. Believe me when I say, it can take me a ridiculously long time to learn some stuff. You want me to put other people who I don't know under that kind of boring annoyance when they really just wanted their 15-20 minutes running through something? Hardly seems fair to them, and again: Trusts will help with that!


And yeah, people have said to me before I shouldn't play MMOs because of social anxiety (and also photosensitive epilepsy* which I have!), but those people don't know jack. When you have a condition like this, you have to meet it face-to-face, and confront the hell out of it. Even if it's one inch at a time. Even if some days you fall right back down. You keep at it and keep at it and keep at it. It may never fully go away, but those moments in game when you do actually achieve something you didn't think possible before or gave you a hard time, those moments are all the sweeter for it.

In short: Never give up! Never surrender OR

"Dormammu, I've come to bargain."

* admittedly back in the day playing games could get me killed dead for real. Not so much anymore, though I still have to pick my games wisely.