Final Fantasy XIV and a Culture of Enabling

[Vahlnir]

are you still on this crusade of yours?

Give it a rest already, Caurcas. Go solo palace of the dead or something; that's plenty hard and doesn't require you to play with other players.

All they want to do is frame themselves as some sort of DF messiah sent from the heavens to deliver us from all the toxic casuals "ruining" the player base. The sad part is I really don't believe they are trolling. They fully believe the word vomit they are spewing, and that's even worse than being a troll.

[Ammokkx]

All they want is to do is frame themselves as some sort of DF messiah sent from the heavens to deliver us from all the toxic casuals "ruining" the player base. The sad part is I really don't believe they are trolling. They fully believe the word vomit they are spewing, and that's even worse than being a troll.

Oh I know they're not trolling, which is why I bothered to at least try to tell them to bugger off to solo content and find some measure of inner peace. All that anger and self-vindication can't be good for them.

[Caurcas]

All they want is to do is frame themselves as some sort of DF messiah sent from the heavens to deliver us from all the toxic casuals "ruining" the player base. The sad part is I really don't believe they are trolling. They fully believe the word vomit they are spewing, and that's even worse than being a troll.

Bruh, I just want us to respect each others time. Its a simple thing that you've got twisted into me having some sort of complex. Six years of having to deal with people not respecting the time of others makes a person bitter.

[Vahlnir]

Bruh, I just want us to respect each others time. Its a simple thing that you've got twisted into me having some sort of complex. Six years of having to deal with people not respecting the time of others makes a person bitter.

I'm not twisting anything. You clearly have some sort of complex.

[Caurcas]

I'm not twisting anything. You clearly have some sort of complex.

Thanks doctor!

[Goji1639]

Bruh, I just want us to respect each others time. Its a simple thing that you've got twisted into me having some sort of complex. Six years of having to deal with people not respecting the time of others makes a person bitter.

You're clearly very strapped for time.

[Ammokkx]

You're clearly very strapped for time.

If they weren't strapped for time, they wouldn't spend so much of it posting in this thread. Clearly.

[Caurcas]

Please do continue to defend playing poorly. I am sure the parasites appreciate it.

[Seera1024]

Please do continue to defend playing poorly. I am sure the parasites appreciate it.

Not one of us has defended the parasites. We're not defending cure bots or ice mages or tanks who intentionally play spin the boss or the player who thinks they can AFK.

We're defending the players for whom guides don't work for them to learn content/job. For the player who might get the gist of the guide but needs to play with the unpredictability that comes with playing with others brings. We're defending the normally superb player who is having a bad day in game and making mistakes they normally wouldn't make. We're defending the player who has had a horrible sudden burst of lag mid-dungeon. We're defending the player with a disability whose skill cap is lower than others due to the disability.

[ItMe]

Not one of us has defended the parasites. We're not defending cure bots or ice mages or tanks who intentionally play spin the boss or the player who thinks they can AFK.

We're defending the players...

... who are picking a job, or even the game, back up after not playing it for a bit, and they're a little rusty.

We're defending the players who recently swapped around a few things on their hotbars and are still getting used to things (the training dummy doesn't help me remember I put my interrupt over here)

The players who had a bad/hard day and just want to relax, so they que into a flippin dungeon (no stakes) to see SAM go brrr.

The players who went into content, and then through no fault of their own have something IRL asking for their attention and distracting them.

The players who've trying, but don't yet realize they're missing something, or performing their rotation non-optimally, and don't deserve ire and blacklisting for the incredible transgression of maybe making an alliance raid take a little longer.

We're defending people who aren't doing anything wrong or malicious, yet are being attacked behind their backs.