
Originally Posted by
Euphares
You aren't even keeping a consistent argument, just selectively changing your points to fill this weird narrative that performance-based players aren't real players because only people who don't care about performance can "truly enjoy the game." This has been proven as false on multiple occasions, several times in this thread alone.
If you are joining a learning party to learn, there is no problem as long as you are at the prog point the party requires. No one reasonable has ever disagreed with this or claimed the opposite. You are quite literally lying by saying most people in this thread are claiming people can't learn.
And by the way, Duty Completion and Duty Complete are both very different parameters one can set for their PF, if the leader sets the party to Duty Completion it means that people who haven't cleared can join.
You are speaking for others and not even repeating what they have said correctly in order to create this weird delusion that other people are trying to strongarm you to play a certain way, asking people for basic participation and pulling their weight, something anyone can do easily, is not unreasonable by any means. If you acted like this in real life, people would find you weird, rightfully so.
You are correct, it is a community, therefore the community can set the standards by which individuals must conform to or be ostracized, that's how communities work. There is a reason why you aren't allowed to join savage/extreme/ultimate and just auto attack the entire time, which by your logic, would be perfectly valid to do if that's the playstyle you preferred.
The devs/gm's have the right to punish anyone they want for whatever reason they want, but that is the extent of their power over the community. Which is why players are allowed to foster the micro-communities they desire.