Community - The Most Likely Cause of the Game's Downfall

[FranSeara]

I understand taking candy away from a baby but thats not the case here. The old, getting tired very quickly " You took stuff I wanted and you took my low level stuff" Story is out of hand now. Look, a Need roll is a Need roll. If you want Tank drops run as a Tank. True example: I've wanted the Tank armor from CT since the first time I saw it. I've never gotten it, every Tank item level 110-130, final coil wearing tank rolls need on this armor. I have to live with this because I suck at Tanking. So no Armor for me,but no crying. "Learn to live with not getting every drop ,everytime, its part of the game".

[Sandoria]

I don't think I realized how generally great this community is until I resubbed WoW for a month. While I played it for nearly a decade, I think I was pretty jaded to how ruthless and mean the general community was. I felt like it was a rarity in wow to find a group that didn't troll with parsers, kicks or abusive comments in the random lfr. In just the basic dungeons in warcraft, every group I got was dead silent. No one even said hello. They just steamrolled content in heirloom gear taking the fastest path to just get through it. Any interactions between were an unnecessary distraction and heaven forbid you're the person who either makes a mistake or has the lowest dps. Let's not even bring up the abomination that is the trade chat of that game.

Here, people in the duty finder will often greed stuff for various reasons but that is the same in any mmo. While this game gets it's share of jerks as any large scale mmo is likely to attract, a good portion of the community here tries to be considerate to their fellow gamers. The community in this game is actually kind of creepily nice. More often than not, I've seen people take time to explain fights to newcomers as well as take on additional pulls so a newbie can get more exp. Little acts of kindness like seem small but have a big impact on our community as a whole.

I do have to say being so negative probably isn't helping you or your friend's case. There's been many things I've had to run multiple times for the items I wanted. There are many things I don't have because others have won the roll. And that's ok. I'm not the only person playing and I'll get it eventually. Don't give up, stay positive and it will happen for you.

[ShadowYomi]

Unless your friend is a DPS shouldnt you be able to control some gear drops by going the same role as them if it is for the class they are using?

[TouchandFeel]

As I see it, the attitudes of this game's community and most online communities are a reflection of the state of society in general, we do live in the age of online after all.

Blatant self-entitled dickery is quickly becoming the norm in modern society. While there are still good people out there who make the world a nicer place for others, I consistently see more acts of selfishness than kindness while going about my day.

Societies and communities are made up of people, us. When you hurt someone else in the community, you are hurting the community and inadvertantly are hurting yourself since you too are a part of the community.
Strengthen and improve the community and everyone benefits, including yourself.

So please, let's all do our best to not be selfish jerks, online and in the real world.

[Riviere]

I always click need, except in low level dungeons.

[Catwho]

I learned the hard way that if you want an item in this game, you HAVE to go on a class that can Need on it. I got yelled at for much the same thing when I won the caster robe in CT on my black mage. I had wanted that robe for a long time, so I deliberately queued as a black mage (and not bard or scholar or war, my other main jobs), and when it finally dropped, I Needed on it. A guy who was tanking immediately started complaining that his black mage "could have used that."

Well, guess what, I could have been on my ilvl 110 WAR in Crystal Tower too, but I queued as a black mage precisely because I wanted the Crimson Robe. If he had really wanted the caster gear as much as I did, he too could have queued on black mage. He chose to queue on tank, either to shorten the wait or to also get a shot at tank gear. That was the opportunity cost he decided on, and I shouldn't be expected to pass on a piece of gear I've been after for over a year.

[Evangela]

I learned the hard way that if you want an item in this game, you HAVE to go on a class that can Need on it. I got yelled at for much the same thing when I won the caster robe in CT on my black mage. I had wanted that robe for a long time, so I deliberately queued as a black mage (and not bard or scholar or war, my other main jobs), and when it finally dropped, I Needed on it. A guy who was tanking immediately started complaining that his black mage "could have used that."

Well, guess what, I could have been on my ilvl 110 WAR in Crystal Tower too, but I queued as a black mage precisely because I wanted the Crimson Robe. If he had really wanted the caster gear as much as I did, he too could have queued on black mage. He chose to queue on tank, either to shorten the wait or to also get a shot at tank gear. That was the opportunity cost he decided on, and I shouldn't be expected to pass on a piece of gear I've been after for over a year.

that guy sounds like a 12 year old brat.

[Jynx]

Don't hate the community for acting ultra insular. Duty finder breeds this community by removing any community building blocks and even making it hard to try and create a community.

Blame the game's ecosystem for catering to these players.

Everything SE does is counter community right down to the base game systems.

[Stihllodeing]

Don't hate the community for acting ultra insular. Duty finder breeds this community by removing any community building blocks and even making it hard to try and create a community.

Blame the game's ecosystem for catering to these players.

Everything SE does is counter community right down to the base game systems.

That's right, don't hate the players hate the game. Rubbish. People should be held accountable for their actions. Imo, this type of attitude is what contributes to the "me first generation" much more than anything SE could design.

[Kallera]

That's right, don't hate the players hate the game. Rubbish. People should be held accountable for their actions. Imo, this type of attitude is what contributes to the "me first generation" much more than anything SE could design.

Except by design they cannot be held accountable by their actions, even outing the offending player can be interpreted as a witch hunt and reported.