Look what just happened in Duty !

[Abriael]

Wow. I hope I never run into some of you people in game. Many of you who advocate kicking people for underperforming sound like the same people who used to advocate that people with disabilities be sterilized for their shortcomings believing it to be for the "good of the many". It's sad that this is what the FF community has degraded to; people with absolutely no compassion and sympathy for their fellows.

What is sad is seeing someone making absolutely unfitting comparisons between kicking someone out of a group in a game and causing severe and irreversible physical harm. By the way, "slower learning curve" is a big overstatement. If by level 50 you're unable to play your class decently, it's not just a matter of slow learning curve. It's normally a matter of laziness.

What is "unsavory" is seeing people justify and encourage lack of responsibility towards your group mates and respect for their game time, no matter if you met them randomly. It's really pretty simple: by playing a tank, you accept the responsibility that the party revolves around you. If you're not able or willing to perform that task at an acceptable level, you WILL make everyone's time miserable, and in that case you deserve the contempt.

No one's born learned, and that's why you go with friends that know of your ineptitude beforehand to learn, instead of imposing said ineptitude on strangers, often wasting 90 minutes of their time with a timeout. Not everyone has several hours to play a day, and wasting 90 minutes of someone's time is not a small deal.

And mind you. I'm a tank, so I apply the same concept to myself. If you ever see me underperform in a dungeon feel free to vote kick me. I guarantee I won't go complains in the forum about it.