Tank mentality.

[Meta-Flare]

It seems like every third tank I play with is just a complete d-bag. My friends say they run into a lot of tanks with really bad attitudes as well. Is it a power trip cuz they are the "leader" of the group or have I just had some bad luck with people? Most of the time it's not even me the tank rages about. Also if you ask the tank to do something a certain way they flip out and basically say stfu. I've started to roll a tank just for this reason, to try and bring some non d-bagness to the community.

So is this a common thing with tanks, or is it just bad luck?

[ken00]

you just got a bad luck.. or the english spking community just have a lot of d-bags, sorry to all those kind ppl in the english speaking community =). try jap groups u will rarely find one.. =p

[Nenin]

you just got a bad luck.. or the english spking community just have a lot of d-bags, sorry to all those kind ppl in the english speaking community =). try jap groups u will rarely find one.. =p

Standard xenophobic response.

I fully understand the hypocrisy of what I'm about to say but Japanese players have been extremely unfriendly towards English speakers in my experience. In FFXI I can't count on both hands the number of times I was looking for a party and saw <Looking for members><Japanese><German><French><Okay><English><No Thanks>. Yet not once did I see the reverse. Perhaps it was simply because the game was released years earlier in Japan but somehow I doubt this is the sole contributing factor.

Of the 5-10 times I did manage to somehow find myself in an all <Japanese> party in FFXI 70-95% of the time I could have sworn I was being laughed at. Lengthy discussions without using any auto translate would be followed by <insert my name here> and lots of W's. Is that not equivalent to saying, lmao what a fuking noob!? Look at this horrible English player, lmfao 笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑?


Give me a break. Assholes belong to every language and dialect. Don't insult the entire English speaking population by insinuating that we are somehow inferior to Japanese speakers. Way to alienate over a billion people with one comment.

[Ziuz-ir-Mewrilah]

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I can't blame them to be honest. I'm American myself, and I see many English speaking players being disrespectful on the chat in the game. For the record though, I haven't run into any texts like the one you posted so far. The Japanese on my server (Ultima at this point in time) don't seem to mind playing with Western players. Only been playing FFXIV since August, so I can't speak 100% on the topic though, just giving my experience so far.

[ken00]

I can't blame them to be honest. I'm American myself, and I see many English speaking players being disrespectful on the chat in the game. For the record though, I haven't run into any texts like the one you posted so far. The Japanese on my server (Ultima at this point in time) don't seem to mind playing with Western players. Only been playing FFXIV since August, so I can't speak 100% on the topic though, just giving my experience so far.

that guy smells like a troll, ppl regardless of language won`t do that unless he did something or is just lying.

[ken00]

Standard xenophobic response.

I fully understand the hypocrisy of what I'm about to say but Japanese players have been extremely unfriendly towards English speakers in my experience. In FFXI I can't count on both hands the number of times I was looking for a party and saw <Looking for members><Japanese><German><French><Okay><English><No Thanks>. Yet not once did I see the reverse. Perhaps it was simply because the game was released years earlier in Japan but somehow I doubt this is the sole contributing factor.

Of the 5-10 times I did manage to somehow find myself in an all <Japanese> party in FFXI 70-95% of the time I could have sworn I was being laughed at. Lengthy discussions without using any auto translate would be followed by <insert my name here> and lots of W's. Is that not equivalent to saying, lmao what a fuking noob!? Look at this horrible English player, lmfao 笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑笑?

Give me a break. Assholes belong to every language and dialect. Don't insult the entire English speaking population by insinuating that we are somehow inferior to Japanese speakers. Way to alienate over a billion people with one comment.

lol my FC is jap and we got an american player and the other members are still very helpful.
and did i say theres no d-bags in jap. community? read my post again lol.
and did i say all english speaking players are d-bags? read that again too.

[Kryzen]

Its the MMO generation we live in now. This kind of attitude becomes more and more common. It isn't just with tanks but every class has these types of people. My favorite are the DPS who hit like a wet noodle but think they are hercules.

[ken00]

My favorite are the DPS who hit like a wet noodle but think they are hercules.

haha laughed too hard in this..
seriously though you will rarely see these bad attitudes in the jap. community. i had been challenging coil turn 1 for a time now and we keep failing in the snake, all my pt members just say dont mind or throw funny jokes to the one who failed to execute.

i played once in ak w/ English filter and when i just said which creep to LB the other guy got mad at me. well lots of other bad experiences playing at primals w/ english filter too though.. just bad..

[SorriorDragneel]

haha laughed too hard in this..
seriously though you will rarely see these bad attitudes in the jap. community. i had been challenging coil turn 1 for a time now and we keep failing in the snake, all my pt members just say dont mind or throw funny jokes to the one who failed to execute.

i played once in ak w/ English filter and when i just said which creep to LB the other guy got mad at me. well lots of other bad experiences playing at primals w/ english filter too though.. just bad..

Sounds like I have the JP server mentality...I wipe i joke go back for more..Worst case i learn more about the place best we one shot it and so on..Too many people get too serious.

[Yagrush]

There's a flip side to this.. There has been some people calling me out for "bossing people around" or being in a "power trip" because I asked people to follow the kill order >_> And I'm VERY nice about it all the time. So I guess there's a fine line. Though you do have a certain responsibility as a Tank that some people take more seriously than others.