This game has serious free-rider problems and it's getting worse. A suggestion.

[Wavaryen]

It happens in any raid I've been in where someone either AFKs or dies immediately and refuses to accept a rez, followed by someone boldly suggesting a kick. All of a sudden, all you see are bleeding hearts screeching at the top of their lungs "HE'S JUST A SPROUT, HOW DARE YOU!" and "CUT THE GUY SOME SLACK, IT'S JUST A GAME," and of course "LOL LOOK AT THIS TRYHARD."

I'm tired of submitting to it. Nobody has a DPS meter in front of them and is asking to kick a person at the bottom it. These are people who are actively doing nothing, and yet their wholesale laziness and commitment to playing the game in a way that weakens a team and leeches off the strength of others always finds its defenders. And the people who only ask that everyone in a group either contribute or leave? They're accused of being too serious; too involved; caring too much - as if anyone should willingly want to waste their time and effort on the behalf of someone who is so bored with the content that they cannot even be bothered to fake trying.

Out society has become so obsessed with defending the abused and the broken - is now so eager to shield these newly-christened victims - that it has turned those who are aggressively manipulative and duplicitous into saints. Every crook is stealing a loaf of bread to feed starving children; every knife-wielding, crazed homeless person is just out there because they lost their job; every psychotic meth-head who beats his wife had a troubled childhood. And no, those serious things are in no way equivalent to abusing game mechanics - but it's the mindset of urgently championing every cause that has trickled its way down into this game. Not everyone is a good person, and they don't all deserve the benefit of the doubt. Hard truths brought to you by the FFXIV general discussion forum.

Or maybe most of us don't think it is that big of a deal, that it is a video game, and if the content can't get done. We will find a new group that gets it done. It has nothing to do with being a good person, The simple fact is a bad group is not that big of a deal. If someone wants to be lazy, more power to them. If they hold us all back, well I can just hit a button and find another group.