Quote Originally Posted by Insomnius View Post
Why do people blame WoW ... /snip
This post wins. WoW has nothing to do with this issue outside of the fact that it made the genre of MMOs more popular. Granted, the pace at which WoW moved in comparison to its competitors is a large part of what drove that popularity but pacing is not the issue. The issue is that there will always be people in the world that have a "me first" attitude and a "go! go! go!" approach to whatever it is that they're doing; it doesn't just happen in MMOs. WoW did not create these people, these people started playing WoW. Now that this genre is more popular and more accessible by a larger audience (for those who don't know, internet access has greatly improved since EQ/UO), these types have people have begun playing games like FFXIV. As such, we must coexist with these players and do what we can to avoid, ignore, or mitigate their impact on our game experiences regardless of how frustrating it can be at times.