Ishgardian Restoration world visit.

[wereotter]

I was one of the Wanderers trying to help progress smaller pop servers, handing out free mats, sharing information resources, and answering questions for people. I'm always genuinely happy to help people who want and appreciate it. I made new friends yesterday and it was probably the first time in a long while that I've felt like I was playing an MMO with other people for more than just a 30 minute dungeon run.

Honestly, though, seeing most of these responses is very disheartening, and it puts people off from wanting to bust their butt for people who feel entitled to other world's free labor. "Well if you REALLY want to help you should work for us and not expect to be able to share in the fate rewards!". Just sounds bad? That's not actually any better than the people farming fates and not contributing, it's all entitled.

I'm sorry people were locked out, frustrated, and so on, but when you're making these snide remarks about how the help was "unwanted" please remember that mixed in with the fate-train runners you had a lot of people genuinely trying to do something kind (at least on Aether that was the case), some of us also displaced but making the most of it anyway.

For those of you who wanted to go at your own pace and are happy with this change, I genuinely hope you don't end up finding your own words bitter later.

There is literally nothing stopping you from helping if you wanted to. You can still share information, hand out materials, give tip, etc.

People who want to help will still help no matter what. People who stop helping because there's nothing in it for them anymore aren't actually in it to help people, they were in it for themselves.

Also in my experience being on your same data center, I will say that if this is indeed what you were doing, then you are in the small minority. I never once saw a person on Faerie offering advise or materials to help people along. It was all just people sitting AFK in Foundation or being toxic in shout chat.

[Kytrin]

There is literally nothing stopping you from helping if you wanted to. You can still share information, hand out materials, give tip, etc.

People who want to help will still help no matter what. People who stop helping because there's nothing in it for them anymore aren't actually in it to help people, they were in it for themselves.

Also in my experience being on your same data center, I will say that if this is indeed what you were doing, then you are in the small minority. I never once saw a person on Faerie offering advise or materials to help people along. It was all just people sitting AFK in Foundation or being toxic in shout chat.

Same. I never saw anyone doing that on Jenova either.

[TahjaEstes]

I am, actually, for what it's worth. I'm part of the Discord that's helping players try to pool resources and communicate. I'm doing what I can, not just being facetious. I actually saw a very good suggestion on the server from last night (or this morning), that they could put a collectibles turn in NPC outside the instance. I thought that was a good idea as a means to let wanderers help out more directly.

I didn't hit up Faerie myself. I stuck to Cactuar, then was on Jenova for a little, and settled in on Siren (most of my time was spent gathering materials and doing turn in's), but aside from one guy condescendingly trying to sell materials directly I saw several people in Shout chat asking for supplies and being answered, people handing out crafting/gathering food buffs, and other things like that. Maybe you were just in the wrong place at the wrong time?

[Sated]

they could put a collectibles turn in NPC outside the instance.

As long as it's not available to wanderers, that might be useful for servers that still get congested with their own population and can't get into Firmament to do turn-ins during FATEs, if that even happens.