It is disrespectful to enter alliance raids without watching a guide.

[Kewitt]

No, it's not. People learn at their own rate.

[MightyZekken]

Look, if you want to tell everyone that you're the guy that pulls during cutscenes without actually telling us that you pull during cutscenes, just do it! At least be honest about why you want everyone to roll their eyes at you.

[Soge01]

Is this Titanmen?

[Knot_D]

Is this Titanmen?

I don't think he's into potato...

[Denji]

it's bait but imagine being one of those unforgivable people who don't let someone experience things for the first time.

it's like that friend nobody wants to invite to play any new game or DnD/pathfinder/whatever with because all they do is pull up a guide and obnoxiously min-max and/or "conveniently" know where the 1-time super rare thing spawns/drops and screws everyone else over.

[GrizzlyTank]

Does this mean japanese players never go into new alliance raids when there are no guides out? Or will they wait till NA or EU players made guides? If not, how do japanese players make guides if they can't go into the raid because no guides exist?

First the japnese will hold a game show to determine who it is that will make a guide. Then that person will be sent alone into the Alliance Raid and be kept there until he manage to solo the entire place, while noting mechanics.

[TaleraRistain]

This is bait, but there are others who do think like this, so this is a reply for them.

Nobody's forcing you to play on a server or a data center where others care if new people have a good experience. I would hardly call cheering on new people and enjoying their honest reactions to going in blind selfish, too. Some of my best alliance raid runs are when everyone is waiting to see how the new person responds in alliance chat to X cool thing. We're old and jaded to it and it gives us a little bit back of that feeling of discovery from when it was fresh and new.

I'm looking forward to all the new people we're going to see in Void Ark for the first time soon.

[Ransom]

This sounds like the Western tendency to put Japanese culture up on a pedestal and idolize it as if it is perfect and can do no wrong and the rest of us are uncivilized philistines in comparison. Which is bull. Don't get me wrong, there's a lot of good about Japanese culture, a lot that is worthy of admiration. But in the end they are flawed imperfect human beings just like the rest of us, and so their culture has it's ups and downs just like all other cultures. It just happens to be a different set of ups and downs. I'll grant the West may at times go a bit too far with self, but I personally will take it over enforced collectivism any day.

[Kaurhz]

Ensuring that you understand at least the fundamentals of your rotation I think is critical and not taking the inclination nor the time to learn your job is disrespectful.

It isn't disrespectful, however, not to read upon and study the encounters beforehand, especially for those that want to experience the encounters for the first time without the spoilers involved. People shouldn't need to read a guide for every little encounter in the game. Now, if you're doing savage or extreme then yes, it is disrespectful not to read the mechanics beforehand.

[Vezper]

Even though this is bait, there are absolutely people out there that unironically believe in what OP says. Imagine needing a guide for an alliance raid of all things - hell, I've seen some people try to say that people should look at dungeon guides before entering. Dungeon guides.

And while I do think it'd be a good idea to check out a guide for EX or higher content that you're delving into, it's definitely not necessary if you find a party that is okay going in blind. But to call it disrespectful, for alliance? lol. Lmao, even.