Quote Originally Posted by Chiru_Kai View Post
Is it bad these days to expect and assume a basic level of knowledge and competency of all your party members?.
Yes. Because apparently you missed the memo that people don't read in this game.

That assumption aside, you're a pot calling the kettle black.

Your entitlement to your time is balanced by the well-being and enjoyment of the experience of others.

Your prioritize time. They prioritize safety and comfort. And when you force your priority onto someone else, they will force their priority right back.

And at the end of the day, safety and comfort are more important than time obligations when you're in a group setting. Hence why healers go on tangents when they stop getting commendations for "optimizing their dps" and leaving tanks and other party members on the border of dying and playing russian roulette on them surviving the next mechanic or pull. You are not entitled to completing content in the fastest means possible. You are subject to bathroom breaks, personal rotation choices, cutscene watching, blind mechanic knowledge that can subject you to wipes, you aren't guaranteed a clear within x minutes. Expressing that expectation on other people is an entitlement to begin with, and having it is ignorant because it's not going to get met consistently at all. It being "ordinary" is also with extreme scrutiny due to only being even remotely accurate for end game content only. If you were to dps and level up naturally in dungeons from 1 to 100 and say nothing in chat, wall to wall pulls are going to be the vast minority of your runs. Most new players are not aware of these expectations, or are not comfortable with these expectations. And we're also talking specifically for NA at least, because JP doesn't have this expectation either.

In regard to shooters with aiming and shooting at enemy targets, this is actually a bad example that proves the point even moreso of bad expectations.
1) People that are excessively bad or handicapped are put into protected brackets under SBMM to where the regular playerbase does not see them. FF14 does not have SBMM in the Duty Finder.
2) Call of Duty especially is bad for this due to challenges, equipment use, akimbo weapons, knife usage, riot shield, etc. especially in objective game modes where distraction duty, smoke screens etc. are implemented and specific players are tasked with "slayer" duty. You don't have to have any semblance of aiming and shooting targets that you would expect to be able to contribute toward a win. You'd just be mad that they don't have the K/D and killstreaks that you'd want them to have. But, any high skill player will tell you they'd rather have someone suiciding on the B flag repeatedly with 0 kills than some person aiming for kills that's never on the objective.