A Grave State Of Affairs

[Kiregean]

While the title I've chosen may seem confusing I shall soon explain. As a player from the original beta and long term subscriber to 1.0 it grieves me to say that the community I was once proud of has now become a cesspool of elitist, rude, self-absorbed, pushy, obnoxious, and just plain annoying players.

Now why do I say this you might ask. Well this is from observation since the end of beta phase four to now and from what I've seen the community is going downhill at a tremendous pace and is beginning to, dare I make this comparison, look more like World of Warcraft than Final Fantasy anymore.

In the last three days I've seen...
*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.
*Players berating other players for queuing for Amdapor Keep without full Darklight gear and relic weapon.
*Players refusing to group with other players for the purpose of Fate groups because they are not a "AoE Class"
*Players mocking other players for not knowing all fight mechanics on their first attempt at dungeons.
*Players constantly demeaning other players in /shout for asking simple questions regarding quests, dungeons, or otherwise.
*Players harassing other players until they leave groups because they aren't geared to the like of that party member.
*And much much more....

Needless to say I am appalled at this and it grieves me say that these are the filth that is being represented as our community. This kind of behaviour is atrocious and it only gets worse with each passing day. As these so called "parsers" come into the mix now I see them shouting that they will kick anyone who doesn't meet their damage per second output as well. It is getting out of hand and needs to be fixed, be it by exiling them (I.E. banding together and telling them enough is enough and forcing them only to group with each other or use the dungeon finder) or by actions by Square Enix to penalize this type of behaviour whether it be temporary suspensions, gil or other penalty, in-game jail time, or otherwise.

[Azazela]

*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.

Skip them and watch them at the Inn. I did that, didnt want to burden the people that were carrying me for the first time.

[Kiregean]

Patience is a virtue. Harassing them period for wishing to watch the story as they play it should be considered a form of punishable harassment as it stands.

[Zeretal]

*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.

Skip them and watch them at the Inn. I did that, didnt want to burden the people that were carrying me for the first time.

this statement is whats wrong with this.. i will not skip anything i pay for this game i will watch it as it happens fuck the inn im just lucky im tank so when ppl run in they get fucked and i laugh

[Shirai]

this statement is whats wrong with this.. i will not skip anything i pay for this game i will watch it as it happens fuck the inn im just lucky im tank so when ppl run in they get fucked and i laugh

I think it is commendable that Azazela is willing to skip for the sake of others, but like many people I am not.
I will go through cutscenes faster if you ask me nicely, but I shall not skip anything.

As I said earlier, I have plenty of activities to keep me busy while I wait for the DF.
And I have no problem with "being that guy" that leaves the party if they make a problem out of me watching cutscenes.

Want to speedrun? Then don't use the Duty finder to make your parties, but make your own.
It is that simple.

[Riko_113]

this statement is whats wrong with this.. i will not skip anything i pay for this game i will watch it as it happens fuck the inn im just lucky im tank so when ppl run in they get fucked and i laugh

Completely agree with this (and the OP)

I'm watching this stuff as it happens, and as the healer...good luck telling me otherwise. My roommate is lower level and I go with him to all of the group content and have told him "If you want to watch the cutscenes then watch them. Don't let the rest of the team tell you otherwise". If anyone harasses him about it, I watch the cutscenes with him.

Also, when I took him through Stone Vigil the tank wasn't holding aggro on anything(at the end he admitted he's played for only 10 days and FATE farmed his way up) and the other BLM only spammed Fire III nonstop the whole run and not on the tank's target which made aggro worse. When it got to the final boss and my friend was watching the cutscene they were bitching that we were running out of time and he needs to skip it. I went off on them, saying that if they knew how to play their job we wouldn't have had so many wipes and been short on time. I shouldn't have snapped, but I was at my limit since I WAS actually trying to give them tips throughout the run that they completely disregarded. They told me I should just do my job and let them do theirs(wrong)...<.<

Also, as far as ppl requiring Relics for AK...it's not that hard and AK is one of the requirements to even get a relic in the first place.

[Tolmos]

*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.

Skip them and watch them at the Inn. I did that, didnt want to burden the people that were carrying me for the first time.

Or, better option, tell anyone selfish enough to try to get you to skip the cutscenes on your first run to "gfy" and just watch the cutscenes.

WHAMMO- half of FF14's problems solved in one fell swoop.

It seems to me that the vast majority of issues in this game could be solved be people standing up to the little bully children in party chat who are scared cutscenes will cut out a precious 2.5 minutes of their lives. Every time I see someone complain about it, I just want to slap everyone involved.

Every time anyone anyone demanded I skip the cutscenes, I laughed at them. Every run I had someone be told to skip the cutscenes, I told them specifically to watch it.

Stand up for yourselves, people. It's not that hard, ESPECIALLY on the internet with a group of people you'll probably never see again.

[Annah]

*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.

Skip them and watch them at the Inn. I did that, didnt want to burden the people that were carrying me for the first time.

No. How about let you let them watch the cut scenes the way they were intended to be viewed. If you don't like it, form your own group and stay out of duty finder

[Noni]

We ran CM last night with 2 new people and told them to enjoy the cut scenes. If you are in that big of a hurry form a party OUTSIDE the duty finder! I think all of these people are ridiculous and our free company will never give in to these elitist attitudes. The funny thing was the 2 new people were asking for our server as they have never had anyone be nice to them on their first runs.......truly pathetic.

[Dsync]

*Players screaming at other players freshly turned 50 for watching the cutscenes within Castrum Meridianum and The Praetorium.

Skip them and watch them at the Inn. I did that, didnt want to burden the people that were carrying me for the first time.

For the people watching the cutscene it may help to set the mood. I also skip cutscenes as I don't want to burden others, but I'm not going to berate someone else if they do want to watch it. Watching at the inn afterwards only goes so far when you don't have the context of your actions before and after anymore. This includes how it made you feel as you knew you were about to do something which could be considered big.