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    Quote Originally Posted by Rein_eon_Osborne View Post
    Apparently according to one of my FCmate who made an alt in JP DC stated that the ‘You pull you tank it’-practice is more common over there because the mindset was something around “I assume you can tank better than I do because you pulled it, not me.”

    Is this one of those different perks from each DC? It would be nice if I can get an enlightenment from another player here who plays in JP DC. I am genuinely interested to know
    Maybe it's me being Swedish but I just think it's really rude and people acting outside of their role due to immature impatience ( there's obviously exceptions to this where tanks are insanely slow, but I am not talking about those ).
    Like I dunno how it is in other countries but apparently Swedes respecting standing in line to things and respecting personal space and boundaries is shocking to foreigners, so maybe subconsciously it's just me taking the unwritten rules more seriously.

    On a personal level I also just feel like it's indicative of a sort of decline of MMO's where they're becoming less and less social and people treat them more and more like singleplayer games.
    I remember back in Vanilla and TBC WoW where you actually had to work more together and when sheeping, sapping, spell steal etc actually mattered.
    Now granted part of this is just an increase in player skill too, in Classic WoW people don't do this anymore either because people today are just a lot better.
    But when I played Classic again I still felt like interacting with players and things being more structured was more important.

    Like to me it's just something sad and depressing about dps pulling, about what it represents to me.
    If someone chose to play Tank because that's what they wanted to do I just think it's kinda disrespectful and obnoxious to step on their toes.
    I see it as you interfering with their fun and what they chose.

    It's a different matter ofc if it's out of necessity, so RDM ressing or healing for example to save the day.
    But I think that if someone else chose to play a Tank and you pull as dps then you're compromising the fantasy and enjoyment of that other player, and it strikes me personally as extremely self-centered.
    Which again I suppose might be a cultural thing, where it's all about the '' me '' instead of the '' us ''.

    In Scandinavia it's called '' Jantelagen '', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante .
    I mean you shouldn't take it literally lol, it sounds way worse than it actually is it was originally meant as satire.
    But it still comes from a somewhat true place.

    I think that it has to do with how on a cultural level in some countries people historically were more community driven, so everyone knew each other and worked more together.
    While in a lot of other countries people were more fending for themselves, in the US for example it's all about standing out and proving how amazing and how much better than everyone else you are.
    Probably has a lot to do with how young the country is, just people moving to a new place and having to start from scratch with no established communities.
    And US culture does influence a lot of us because of how prominent it is online, which isn't quite as true for the Japanese due to language barriers.
    So in Japan it's more like '' we're doing this together, so don't step out of line '' while I feel like a lot of people in NA and even the EU treat other people more like a burden.
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    Last edited by Kolsykol; 03-29-2021 at 05:20 AM.