The cycle of disbanding that keep casuals from doing content

[Izsha]

I can't count how many times I've read 'I'm a competent skilled player who can only raid 1-2 days a week so I can't get a group' on these forums. Apparently there's millions of you guys out there actively looking for groups and yet no one can put one together. It doesn't add up.

My statics frequently fill holes from within our fc, with friends of people outside the fc. We have friends in other fc so we reach out to other link shells and fc frequently when building statics. My groups tend to run only 2 days a week. All the groups I've been a part of have been very flexible in accommodating people's schedules (and some of them have really wonky schedules). Nearly every pug I've joined has some core group of 2-5 people that started it that ask me to join on a more permanent basis after a run. We dig up new members from all corners of the world not just some elitest duechebag secret society.

Everything in my experience has shown that if you are in fact competent, finding a group is never some epic quest but a simple task even with 2 days or wierd schedules. If there are sooo many of you guys as this forum suggests it should be even easier to hook up.

It doesn't add up, and frankly I don't buy it anymore. You guys are either the most antisocial people on the planet and live in a friendless hole in the eorzea ground, or you really aren't as good as you think you are. According to these forums there's a bazillion skilled players that only want to run 1-2 days a week and it's the big mean elitest consortium that runs 20 hrs a week somehow put you on a blacklist so you'll never work in this town again? Please. If there are so many people in this boat then team up already. Talk to people. Network for all of 5 min. It's really not as hard to do as people seem to imagine it is.

Now there are rare cases when people schedules are so erratic and wierd that it really isn't practical to raid and my heart goes out to those guys, but they are an extreme minority. Most people DO have the time to if they choose.

[NyarukoW]

.. finding a group is never some epic quest but a simple task even with 2 days or wierd schedules. If there are sooo many of you guys as this forum suggests it should be even easier to hook up....

This is utter BS. How many people you see here are even on the same server? And then how many of them will have the same hours on the same days that line up? And remember you need 8 that line up in all those aspects. And then people need to be looking to do the same content. Those looking to clear T5 are not going to help with T7. Those looking to do T7 are not doing to be able to help with T9 etc. It is not easy by any stretch of the imaginations. It needs a lot of things to line up just right.

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It doesn't add up, and frankly I don't buy it anymore. You guys are either the most antisocial people on the planet and live in a friendless hole in the eorzea ground, or you really aren't as good as you think you are...

You can't add and much less do probability and statistics to really understand the odds of things lining up. You just want to come here and insult people and call people names.

[Teirshin]

It doesn't add up.

Then I guess you're bad at math?

Everything in my experience....

And your experience is all that matters of course.....

You guys are either the most antisocial people on the planet and live in a friendless hole in the eorzea ground, or you really aren't as good as you think you are.

Thanks for an exmaple of that "anti-social" behavior.....

Most people DO have the time to if they choose.

Source? I'd love to see it. Oh whats that? Cant pull it out of... right, gotcha.


What works for one DOESNT work for all, so think before judging.

[Shori]

It doesn't add up, and frankly I don't buy it anymore. You guys are either the most antisocial people on the planet and live in a friendless hole in the eorzea ground, or you really aren't as good as you think you are.

Its called timezones and life. Eorzea friendlist does not equal popularity or a person's worth.

I'd be interested to know how people who joined the game much later than myself fair up. They've not had the luck of people wanting to battle the same content as them. I'd hoped at least some of these players were at SCoB or Ex primals by now, yet a Party Finder will take several re-listings before itll form. And like Alexion, I'm hardly on an underpopulated server.

I'll just sit in the corner of Revenants Toll on my fat chocobo swilling mead until something not-end-game comes along (like ninjas!)