Quote Originally Posted by Nebelheim View Post
I have had similar experiences as littleimp after checking out venues out of curiosity and had dealt with stalkers and people getting really weird and not leave me alone to the point where i had to blacklist and report people. I might have just been unlucky but there are roleplayers that take things way too far and take things beyond your comfort zone even after setting boundaries. A lot of roleplayers are decent and at least keep things behind closed doors but i had experiences of also people trying to force things when i wanted nothing to do with whatever they wanted.
I have noted this here before but I made a viera alt to play with a friend of mine, I did a FATE in East shroud with someone and they started whispering me noticing where the character name was from. Three sentences in they asked me if I ERP and asked if the friend who came to bail me out was my boyfriend a few moments later. I understand this is fully a random incident that happened to me and it could be clouding my judgement on the matter but upon bringing it up in friends groups many also have similar stories, I know that is anecdotal evidence but it certainly changed my view on how much of a lack of moderation there is. Add in all the "Sorry that was supposed to be a whisper!" shouts I have seen in random zone chats of elicit nature and well I would agree it is getting out of hand.

As for the topic at hand I realized as a causal player myself I don't have to group with anyone to get my "Casual BiS of tomestone gear and relic" thanks to Duty Support. I understand the game would need this feature for future proofing but I think it has helped diminish some aspects of the game being an MMO. If I add in how so much new content this expansion simply didn't have a shelf life and in island Sanctuaries case only further isolated the community in private instances I would say this was a terrible expansion for an MMO, it is a fine single player experience I suppose. This is only further worsened by the community mentality itself of if I had wanted to do content as a Primal player I would need to go to Aether, the PF for primal is only a few groups and a ton of venue ads. I don't think I need an apology, I just want to see that next expansion has done anything to address these issue and thus far a few have been hit but several haven't been mentioned at all.