Why are some players so resistant to change?

[lackofwords]

Funny thing is this happened yesterday for me. The tank was talking about this method, and I've agreed to kite it.
Then he went onto doing it the normal way, and so he died. The mobs just piled on top of him with no one killing any of it.

Lesson is make sure everyone is on the same page.

[Everdark]

lol I started doing this the second time I ran it cos the tanks were ... untrustworthy. It's only been lately that the DF teams I've come across let me do it the "slow" way.

[Ophie-Mio]

...the hilarious thing is, when I read this, I thought that the method was something different than healer kites everything...

Cause...from the very beginning, that's what my group always did. They would hit me and I wouldn't care enough to have the tank/dps take them off me. So in the end, me just taking them became standard.

<_< Had no idea that people do it any other way...

Just like how in Qarn, people kinda get moody if you don't skip the one mob pack...I had no idea that you could but it's not like it takes anything more than a few seconds to deal with that pack. Why do macros and get bent outta shape about it?

[Hurlstone]

Personally speaking, I am not much of a fan of speed runs. Sure, if the party wants to do one then I go ahead without complaining. I just like doing dungeons etc the way they were meant to be played. Sure, it may take more time but... its a game, are we playing because we enjoy the combat, challenge, hunt etc? Plus, its good for those new to the dungeon and endgame to further help understand mechanics and their class.

That is just me though!

[Korilynn]

Because you have never run it with me and I'm willing to try anything!

[Azper]

I've wanted to try this method after hearing about it a week or two ago. Sadly (or not), my duty finder teams all just do it the regular way. I usually just step into the center after getting aggro and throw out some holy bombs to make quick work of the adds. It doesn't take that much longer I guess. To each their own.

[Charisma]

You are a random player, the dps are random players.
I dont know you or anyone else in the group.
Ive seen DPS with 6k HP doing shit dmg on tank n spank bosses.

Im not going to run around with 50 adds and die, because i trusted a bunch of random baddies. (I never did it, so dont bother calling me bad.)
This shit is just as cool as skipping the one mob pack in Temple, which 90% of time, does not work with PUGs.

There is no need to change, you should just stop forcing other players to do something, they are not interested in.

[Umo]

On the other hand, how much time do you save with this strategy? Another 30 secs.? The same time you spend waiting for the other members to read your macro (note there are people who can't understand English or whatever language you are using) and agree?
Wow.

PS. Sometimes it feels as players do not want to play the game. It's gettin' odd pretty fast...

[Zfz]

30 seconds matter when contents can realistically be completed in 30 minutes. Then people extend that sentiment (that 30 seconds matter) into contents that take 2 hours.

Sadly this is the business model that works nowadays. There are simply more people who would pay for something they don't want to spend time in, than people who pay for something and want to spend time on it.