Quote Originally Posted by ovIm View Post
I see more sweaty tryhard groups than chill casual ones personally. The chill ones are far and few between, from my own personal experience. There are a lot of people with a certain dedication and ambition when it comes to raiding.

Aside from that, maybe its also that this kind of raid encounters are just not everyones cup of tea? Because see here:



No it does not. Most content is "singular room with boss". (read - most, not all. I know there are exceptions, but the next non room with boss instanced content is over half a year away for when field operations drops.)

Trials? Singular room with boss.
Storymode/Savage Raid? Singular room with boss.
Chaotic? Singular room with boss, again.

Dungeons and 24 mans do at least change it up with some trash in between, but mostly, FF14 is bosses.
That is a classic confirmation bias.

As long as you know what you are looking for, finding the right group is 75% already sorted. There are discord channels/communities/servers that you can join to find such groups. If you end up in a sweaty group then you either got unlucky or you didn't do your homework properly. It takes 5 minutes to ask the person recruiting what the goals are, as well as what the general atmosphere and consensus regarding the prog and pace.

Also if you argue that the game should make a 180-degree shift just because you find the singular room with the boss, not your cup of tea, then perhaps this game is actually not for you. Diversity doesn't have to be unidimensional and "singular room with boss" is how the core game design is.

No game should ever cater to people who just hate/dislike the game itself and the design. Some games did try that and failed abysmally.