Quote Originally Posted by Evergrey View Post
This. In real life, people who ignore a strike due to reasons they are pretty much shunned upon by the others who commit to the strike completely.
If you want a strike, do it 100%. Don't make expections for friends and such.
That just really looks bad.
I wouldn't really look at th is 1 to 1. For starters, this is a video game not workers striking for fair pay and safer working conditions etc. Nobody should be shunned or bullied for deciding to queue as a white mage, or to help their friends get through a story trial etc.

Second, there's no picket line to clearly and publically see people crossing it anyway. So who's even going to know unless people are constantly checking their friends lists and policing each other based on who's in what duty as what job etc.

I"m not saying not to do a healer strike. If people want to unsub or just not queue as healer to protest, go right on ahead. That's perfectly fair. But I wouldn't really expect the social aspects of this to play out like a real world strike at all.