Do you know why the average pf player is so bad?

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This type of thinking is exactly why it's an issue though. You're still on seven other peoples time, and given the role you're hoping someone else can pick up the slack and if they can't and you can't then it's now 6 other peoples problems. Playing in any online space on other peoples time is in of itself an agreement to at least try to do your best, and in the case your best is average or below, then yeah cool, no hard feelings. But if you can do better, or pull the extra slack, it's always nice to do so.

Because as much as people love to be gracious here, and in general in XIV, the average player is bad, And no, it's not because they die, It's not because they don't do high damage. It's because the average player is ignorant of the basic aspects of the games combat system and half of the time can barely keep up with some of the slower fights let alone the faster paced ones and then anyone expecting a max lvl player to understand what an invuln is, is now wrong and a bully in the eyes of the majority.


The issue is based in the inability to hold others to a standard. It's that simple.

I think you are missing the point the devs have tried to hammer home. You going into an instanced trial is you agreeing to do the thing for up to an hour. You have the option to leave the instance if the play style of others isn’t to your liking. They’re being bad at the game is not against the rules put out by the devs.

If you are so hard up that you need to play with “good” players, you have the option to make a linkshell/community with like minded people. You are encouraged to do so! But when you play with randos, you get what you get.

Until the game or the devs want players to improve, they won’t. Nor will they need to. That’s the game this is.

The core game is designed to be so easy that it doesn’t even matter in most cases if you even have a tank. Or a healer. If one person floortanks, you are still going to clear the content with very very very rare exceptions.

That’s the point. It’s not that the game doesn’t hold people to standards, it’s that the standards don’t match yours.

The game’s core standards are quite simple: Is the average player having fun? Are they enjoying their time enough to continue paying the sub?