When/Why were you vote kicked?

[Laraul]

How do you know *why* you were vote kicked? It's not like they give an explanation before vote kicking you?

[ChameleonMS]

One can easily surmise a reasonably accurate root reason based on the events and circumstances leading up to the kick.
Just like Sophia, I have been kicked many, many times for a litany of reasons. Most involving RL AFKing or inexperience at the time or where attitudes just did not agree.

[MeiUshu]

How do you know *why* you were vote kicked? It's not like they give an explanation before vote kicking you?

easy...because each time there had been an exchange of views about it or it happened right after the event happened. For example, refusing to obey someone that doesnt like you in Noct....and then you are right after kicked....yep...you know why LOL

[Dement]

I have been kicked from exactly one party. Titan HM trying to get my relic during 2.0. I got into a group from an FC that were trying to get a few people their clears and we couldn't meet the DPS check of the heart phase because one of their members was constantly getting killed by his jump (they literally ran through the middle to get to the rest of the group everytime, without fail). But since I was the outsider, everyone dropped, said I didn't have high enough DPS and gave me the boot. That's actually why I went pro-parser because I wanted to know what my DPS was playing on PS3 (PS4 now).

Fortunately, I immediately joined another group that one shotted it and when I did a search for one of the loudest of that group about 3 hours later, they were still in the Navel so I guess I ultimately won that one.

[Mimilu]

I've only been vote-kicked once and that was when I was doing World of Darkness as a BRD when it first came out, right before the last boss... ;w;
My friend, who was also in the party as a tank , said five of the other partymembers had a BRD friend insta-que in. ;w;

[Ilan]

I've been kicked once in Odin in 2.5 because i had real bad lags.

I only votekick People who are trolling, racists or insulting in other ways and People who don't come back after a "DC".

[Galgarion]

I logged off in the middle of a vault run to eat breakfast and take a nap. I would have finished it, but the healer was a jerk. He actually had the balls to whine about me getting a debuff from the second boss, after he wiped the party earlier with crappy healing (which I let slide and didn't complain about) because he wanted to stay in cleric stance and let Eos do all the work. Didn't help his case at all that he was one of those nerds that likes typing like they're an 90's era inner-city B-boy.

[Geist]

How do you know *why* you were vote kicked? It's not like they give an explanation before vote kicking you?

Well... somewhat unsurprisingly perhaps, it depends. From what I've seen, most parties will be upfront enough to provide a short explanation or a recap of what supposedly went wrong with your performance; a fairly large amount instead will be less detailed for a variety of reasons - they're on the clock or just that concise - but still give you a concrete reason behind their choice.

A few will stay silent no matter what. In my experience it tends to happen when the causes for the vote are perceived as obvious - bad behavior, refusal to cooperate or stick to agreed-upon tactics, rudeness, lazy play and in general whatever can be construed as "sorry, but you brought this upon yourself".

And finally, a small (very small, fortunately) minority will attempt to kick or dismiss you because reasons: maybe they had a very, very bad day and you just ended in their crosshairs, maybe they want to avoid being kicked themselves... no matter their motivation, you're stuck as a scapegoat.

Edit: also, I just came back from my very first dismissal, during a Sephi EX run... no problems with it, I believe it was reasonable (a key derp on phase 3 after being revived) though I'm sorry it ended up involving a friend who had joined the race with me (apologies, Ru!...).

I guess I can join the club now? Whoo-hoo!

[potempkinduduraga]

I got kicked today for the fact that i did not listen to the scholar. I have played snowcloak sense it release. Really squareenix you need to stop with this kick crap just because someone else don't like the way u play. I believe we should have a right to fight the kick at least in our defense. Even the new members come to me in the fc i am in and ask y they got kicked. i have no idea what to tell them. Well on that note i will be complaining everytime it happens unlawfully. We all put our time and money into this game and we should be able to play without someone else deciding if they want u to our not

[Mattelot]

I've never been kicked from a dungeon but reading the OPs story reminded me of how things were back in FFXI, especially when the game first came out in North America. Japanese players were extremely racist towards NA players. There were a bunch of JP worshippers who would make excuses saying things like "they just don't want to play with us because we suck!" which was a total lie. They were only a little better for a short while until NA players caught up. Then, they were no better than we were.

Does anyone else remember that? "JP ONLY!" Some people claim it was meant that they only speak Japanese. Those comments were destroyed by the fact that a translator existed. For anything basic, the translator was more than adequate.

One thing I will admit to doing is when I leveled up my Bard (I was early 70s at this time) and those who played Bard in FFXI know... you had no problem finding groups. I put "EN PT ONLY" in my search comment and was called a racist by 3 different people lol