Forced to Raid?

[Sigma5]

optional story-wise
not optional if you want the sick drip. I'm in the same boat want the drip but don't know how.

[SassyAssassin]

optional story-wise
not optional if you want the sick drip. I'm in the same boat want the drip but don't know how.

What’s a drip? XD

[MilkieTea]

What’s a drip? XD

drip = slang for cool/good looking clothes.

[FireMage]

A lot of players have social anxiety. Triggers can be different for each though. Some will be more uncomfortable in a 24 man surrounded by lots of other player but okay in a light party where they're only dealing with 3 others. Others will be the opposite and feel safer in the 24 man as a random face lost in the crowd compared to being in the light party where they might feel that there's more attention paid directly to them and their actions.

It's a MMO

[seros]

Honestly most pre endwalker non savage/extreme raid content is nothing you haven't seen before if you've completed the endwalker msq

[Jojoya]

It's a MMO

I know it's a MMO. But MMO doesn't mean you must do content in groups with large numbers of people. It only means a lot of people are likely to be online at the same time.

Someone with anxiety might be playing to do things with friends and they're fine when they're only with those friends. Bring strangers into the group, and their anxiety may start being a problem. They are usually still able to do the content with strangers but it will be stressful and that stress frequently leads to feeling exhausted.

[FireMage]

I know it's a MMO. But MMO doesn't mean you must do content in groups with large numbers of people. It only means a lot of people are likely to be online at the same time.

Someone with anxiety might be playing to do things with friends and they're fine when they're only with those friends. Bring strangers into the group, and their anxiety may start being a problem. They are usually still able to do the content with strangers but it will be stressful and that stress frequently leads to feeling exhausted.

If you can't handle playing with other people you shouldn't be playing a MMO

[Hasrat]

If you can't handle playing with other people you shouldn't be playing a MMO

Being a gatekeeper has never been cool.

[Iyrnthota]

Being a gatekeeper has never been cool.

He isn't entirely wrong.
If you go into an MMO without understanding that at some point you will be forced into interaction with strangers, you're probably gonna have a bad time.
Even in this game, where they've made and are making a shit ton of effort into turning it into, effectively, a single player RPG.

[Shibi]

If you can't handle playing with other people you shouldn't be playing a MMO

Honestly, this "you can only play if you are an extrovert" spiel is a childish argument. People have different tolerances.