Quote Originally Posted by Aria1 View Post
...and you pushed for it with that terrible reasoning, which was the main thing that drove me to post.
You're playing an online game where your victory is dependent on other people's performance. That is the nature of online games, and trying to railroad players into playing correctly by erasing every possible "wrong" answer is a horrible mentality that suffocates the gameplay experience. If you don't like the idea that you will lose some fights because of someone else's mistake, there are single player RPGs that have existed for decades where the only person responsible is yourself. I worded it crudely because I'm beyond fed up with this mentality that curbing gameplay to force other players to perform better by proxy so that we experience less failure is actually a good thing.

But then again, this is FFXIV where apparently what we want is the world the Nibiruns created from Endwalker's story: a world so void of failure, friction, conflict, sadness, and anger that the joys and victories we experience are so empty and hollow that we literally pray for death to take us and free us from apathy. "Can someone please get hit by something so I have a reason to heal?"