NO PARTY KICKS!

[Eekiki]

I was patting her on the back while she was in the bathroom dry vomiting and in tears after a party kick.

I feel like you aren't telling us the whole story. Based on what you said, your friend has some emotional problems that go beyond the game. I wouldn't be surprised if she got kicked because someone in the party said something that "offended" her, and she went off on them until they kicked her for harassment (and yes, that would qualify as harassment).

In my own experience, not once have I ever seen a person kicked for anything other than a valid reason (i.e. offline for several minutes). That's not to say it doesn't happen, but there's no way you can convince me it's the "blight" you claim it is.

IT'S THE SICKEST FEELING EVER TO BE PARTY KICKED.

There are Malaria victims in Africa who would disagree.

[Zaels]

Do you know how yucky that makes you feel to know everyone anonymously agreed they didn't want you around??? I was patting her on the back while she was in the bathroom dry vomiting and in tears after a party kick. I told her this mmo was safe and she wouldn't get bullied here. I thought there was nice people in Final Fantasy.

Are you serious?...

[Delorean]

look i am pretty sure that this is a really bad attempt at trolling

but just incase it's not

there is a certain etiquette you should adhere to whenever you use matchmaking tool in an mmo, and i'll list a few of the most essential ones here.

don't queue if you don't feel like you have enough time to see your groups through to the end.
try not to take AFKs unless you really need to, and even then try to make them brief.
don't speak in party chat unless it is absolutely necessary.
always try to do your best.

and by "do your best" i mean "read the tooltips of your abilities and a guide on how to play your class and use your abilities according to a thought process that has been modified by this information and then make it a goal to play your class well regardless of the groups you choose to play with"

If you follow these rules, your vote kick removals from groups will stop entirely or at least become heavily staggered.

[Artemas]

If you and your friend are being constantly kicked, did you take a look at yourselves as to why?

Are you role playing in parties with strangers? Do you use a lot of party macros with s.e.s? Are you terrible at the role that you're supposed to be playing? Are you kawaii-desuing all over the place? Are you whining? Are you using a lot of profanity? Are you being racist in a non funny manner?

In any case, why are you and your friend putting your egos/identity with your characters? If you were kicked, fine, brush it off and move on. They're not rejecting you on a personal level, they don't wish cancer upon you and your family and hope all the bad things in life happen to you and only you; just you didn't seem to suit their needs at this particular time. And it's not just one person, it's a minimum of three other people to kick you, more of course for CT.

You could always queue for parties/events together so even if a kick vote arises, you can deny it for each other.

[Artemas]

Also, maybe don't play dragoon. Someone mentioned that dragoons get kicked a lot.

[Zeaquada]

I agree, OP! The kick system needs some work, clearly the developers didn't think it through enough. Maybe if the options for kicking were a little more like...


- AFK
- Offline
- Harassment
- Cheating
- Terrible Player
- Under-age (The TOS states, "No one under the age of 13 may play the Game.")
- Unwanted Party Member

So we could get rid of people like you without running the risk of getting banned. God forbid, in a game with thousands of players, that three of them don't like you.

[NeoAmon]

How come everytime I say AFK/brb/need a drink/bio in DF or PF..I never get kicked...I want to rant/cry on the forums about it to .

In all seriousness, I have yet to witness vote abuse against anyone. However, I'm not saying it does not happen, I just think it is not as common as the forums make it be.

[illuminapanic]

I am of the opinion, that if a vote kick goes through, it should be legit regardless of the reason.

Are you saying here that if a vote kick goes through, whoever voted yes to it had every right to do so?

Let me tell you a story and asked if my vote kick was legit. I was in a CT one day on my newly 50 dragoon, on an alt if you will. I'm not new to dragoon so I know how to play the class. I was somewheres I58 but my gears was all over the place. We make it to atomos and my group is the last one to kill it by a stretch but regardless, we do kill it. We start heading to the next area and all I see in my party chat is "our dps are very weak" and the next thing I know, I'm kicked from the group. Parse shows that I'm #1 dps in our group being at the lowest ilvl out of all of them.

So is that legit? I wasn't butthurt in the slightest though. Sent a report in and proceeded to just que into another CT. Life goes on.

[Mardel]

I couldn't finish reading this story. After teaching in the US public school system... I cannot see how your friend would survive in it @@; Much-less hold a job.

1. Horrid priorities, "Getting kicked if the most yucky feeling in the world." - Average student deals with worse on a daily basis.

2. Flawed Logic "I though there was nice people in Final Fantasy." - News stations show murders occurring daily. No one in the world must be nice by that standard.

3. Internet "She wouldn't get bullied here." - Do you even internet bro?


Like a few posts above said, this must not be the whole story. I find it VERY hard to believe someone would break down from a party kick.

[Lichan]

Yes, it's not nice, but it's not the worst feeling ever...
In my case, I'm pissed for the time wasted teaching the "first timer" il60 tank not to wipe all the ally in the first room in CT and after more than an hour spent, I was just kicked for trolling me, or something like that.
Maybe someone launched the request and the other ppl didn't read the message before clicking "yes", thinking it was the ready check message. Honestly I don't think there was a valid reason to kick me...
Anyway, loosing 50 mytho two hours before the reset was a lil annoying, but I solved that by making a pear "tarte tatin" irl
Reporting them has no valid solution... I tried, but they just suggested me to "blacklist" the other server pt <.<