Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
As it stands, the design doesn't make sense for an organized group OR a PUG full of randoms that aren't on discord and it's just strange that this error was made when SE has run this game since 2010, and let's throw in FF11 before that since a lot of their team worked on that too.
Yeah most of this sounds very reasonable until you meet the raiders calling people leeches, snipers and anti-social just for accessing the content available to them in-game. I don't agree with basing how 'good' a player someone is on if they perform all the mechs in a normal dungeon correctly for a crap ton of reasons to do with irl disturbances, forgetting the dungeons, simply being tired from work or illness that day etc. It's just mostly bs gatekeeping that perpetuates this attitude that some are bad and some are good with the help of third party tools (I've played with both casuals and raiders and not seen much difference at all in their play, the worst players i've ever encountered were in pf joining my savage parties when someone in the static couldn't make it and I STILL gave them a good chance to play before giving up on them). You just can't know how someone will play in this raid in the OC till you're actually there doing it with them. If people are purposely playing badly then yeh don't play with them again no issue blacklist is a good tool but I think chances of that actually happening when like you say people do want the mounts, gear, clear etc are really low but the chances of people accusing others of being bad players so that they can make themselves appear to be better is incredibly high speaking from personal experience from playing with people online in competitive games for years.

Everything else you said though I agree with SE have messed up and are now losing even more subscribers. I think they need to play their own game in the West to see what it's really like being a player like me just trying to do stuff in this game because I would bet hugely it's very different to how it is over in Japan.
I believe everyone and anyone who can try this content should try this content in or out of discord (their choice) but it doesn't matter what I think anymore anyway since i'm leaving it behind now. I am just a faintly echoing reminder of how the game used to be or how it could have been if people were a bit better to each other.