Parsing? Drama? ToS? Solution!

[Hash_Browns]

To put it in words most raiders and old-school MMO lovers love: You could also learn to C O M M U N I C A T E. People not respecting your time for whatever reason? Communicate as the MM in MMORPG seems to allegedly imply and find like-minded people with the same values and priorities as you have. This will not only improve your gaming experience but also your communication and social skills! Awesome, isn't it?

"YoU dOn'T pAy My SuB."

Yeah, I'll pass.

[Jojoya]

"YoU dOn'T pAy My SuB."

Yeah, I'll pass.

Not everyone does that, though. It's only a small percentage of the player base that does.

The majority of players are willing to work together as long as discussion about problems is polite and constructive. If you run into one of the "you don't pay my sub" types that doesn't want to cooperate, the group has the right to remove that player from the group.

So remove them, get a replacement and let the group continue progressing. So much can be so easily resolved when people are willing to communicate and listen instead of slamming up a wall.

[purgatori]

Not everyone does that, though. It's only a small percentage of the player base that does.

The majority of players are willing to work together as long as discussion about problems is polite and constructive. If you run into one of the "you don't pay my sub" types that doesn't want to cooperate, the group has the right to remove that player from the group.

So remove them, get a replacement and let the group continue progressing. So much can be so easily resolved when people are willing to communicate and listen instead of slamming up a wall.

Yeah, to be honest, I have only ever seen the "you don't pay my sub" stuff on these forums and Reddit, never in game. There have been plenty of times when I have had discussions with other players about what's going wrong or things they could be doing better, and they have either been receptive, or they have ignored me lol

The other day I was tanking for a run of Wanderer's Palace (Hard) and the party kept wiping on Manxome Molaa Ja Ja. I could see straight away that the main reasons were that they were a) standing too far away from the boss and getting hit by the cone AOE when he turned around, and b) not taking down the idols. Only one of these players was a sprout, so you could argue that they really shouldn't have been making basic mistakes like these, but instead of giving them an earful I took a "let's figure out what's going wrong with the fight approach."

They didn't figure out what was wrong—they attributed our wipes to the healer of focusing too much on the DPS health gauges—but that was okay: I offered my proposed solutions, and when the ones they offered didn't prevent another wipe, they were happy to implement them lol At no point where any hard feelings or defensiveness occurred. So it's certainly possible to avoid these things, if you take the right approach—though it does demand a fair amount of patience that one might not always have in reserve (I certainly don't). But I have way more patience for players who merely don't know stuff, than I do for the ones who think they know it at all and run into content with a hardcore mentality, e.g.: tanks pulling wall to wall and then expecting that the DPS will be able to save the party from a wipe with a LB (I recently had a tank wipe the party twice this way), or DPS rushing ahead to pull additional packs of trash mobs. It's pretty rare that you can reach players like that, so that's where the kick button comes in handy.