Final Fantasy XIV and a Culture of Enabling

[SenorPatty]

Wait but I thought people were all about giving someone the benefit of the doubt especially over issues over personal experience which can often not be proven to be false in such contexts though.

Granted, exaggerated claims over ones personal experience differ from ones that ones that can and cannot be substantiated. If they can be substantiated then yes normally the claim is diminished, but in cases were we cannot prove otherwise since it is a personal experience often times isn't it wrong to undermine their experience?

What I am say sure it what may not be common to some and an exaggeration. Though to the person in question this could be their truth and reality. We validate other truths and realities despite the evidence that goes contrary to what they experience. Sure they are over more hot topic issues but the core concept still stands.

Remember the main reason OP is feeling this way isn't because intrinsically that there are people who play, for simpler terms, bad. It's the amount of people he has encountered that has led him to believe half the playerbase plays bad. If we take that as face value, then that half becomes a real number. But the real number is based off an exaggeration. That's why the concern becomes diminished. Not over his frustration. Even myself, I can understand encountering bad DF sessions and expressing frustration. I won't undermine that and you'll find most empathizing with frustrations. That's why we have a Tales of DF thread. It's concern over this claimed quantity and it's giving the impression to a lot of people in this thread is that it's being blown to proportions, thus casting also a diminished concern over OP's experience as well.

I mean put it this way, if that number was much smaller in his case and by much, let's pretend that only 5-10% of the playerbase played "bad" in his encounters, do you think he'd have this thread up?