"Elitism" vs "Casualism"

[Lucy_Pyre]

I'm sorry, but the way some of you are viewing others playing the same game as you... "woa the *majority* are fools, not me though!*, quite frankly, rubs me the wrong way.

I mean, in all honestly? Not necessarily trying to be rude or condescending but an overwhelmingly large amount of this game's playerbase is utterly inept and incompetent. All it takes is to queue up for a couple of roulettes per-day to get enough first hand experience to see that. And it's not like I (or most people, I would imagine) go into duty finder groups expecting people to be on par with savage raid teams in terms of performance. All that most of us expect from others is a basic level of competence; press your glowing 1-2-3 in order and maybe press some of those other non-glowy buttons occasionally. That's really all most of us expect, and in many instances those expectations are met and we have nothing to say. Unfortunately, those already low expectations are shattered on an alarmingly high basis which leads some of us offer advice to those who very clearly need it. Yet, often even when this advice is given in a polite and calm manner we're still met with hostility and other in the group defending & white knighting the other person.

As has been said multiple times now across a plethora of threads, XIV has a very serious problem with toxicity, but it isn't in the form of elitism, it's in the form of casuals. And I'm not talking about your average player who just logs in and does whatever activity strikes their fancy at the time, because many (I would dare even say most) of those types of players at least read their abilities and have a basic understanding of their job and how it functions. No, what I'm talking about is 'casuals' in the sense that this subset of players knows quite well that they're playing poorly, yet not only do they have absolutely no intention of improving, they will actively turn hostile to anyone who attempts to help them do so or points out something in their sub-par performance that could be bettered. This situation is only worsened by the fact that a huge chunk of XIV's playerbase actively defends those with this mindset and will side with them when someone attempts to help them improve as a player.