Peer pressure, FFXIV's reputation, & subscribing

[Misteyes]

I gave my friends crap for buying RIFT, it's only fair that they give me crap over XIV now.

But since we're friends, we all laugh about it and move on. I don't feel pressured not to play.

If your friends are different, go farm up some new ones.

[Neptune]

when I moved to Italy all my coworkers said they quit XIV right away n binned it, they really dont like me talking about it anymore, even tried to show them v2 but they said they've been let down once so they dont have any faith, just "i'll believe it when i see it".

That's nuts! Thanks for sharing.

Are people actually taking this topic seriously? Another work of fiction by Neptune hoping for sympathy and for his concerns to be taken to the dev team.

Ah, I see my biggest fan has arrived. I had this waiting just for you.

http://thesoutherncupcakecompany.com...es/cupcake.jpg

Forgot to mention, I was dead the whole time, what I thought was reality was really just a dream of the fayth, the call was coming from inside the house, and since I just know someone is going to ask, I was phone.

Lol.

If you look at comments on youtube or websites about gaming, everyone has a mindset along the lines of "Even if FFXIV becomes the best MMO one day, I'm still not gonna try it."

That's unexpected that people have resistance tot he idea of it becoming better.. I wonder why that is?

[mysterytaru]

Ah, I see my biggest fan has arrived. I had this waiting just for you.

You make things up to get sympathy/attention/etc, you deserve w/e people say about you.

[quantumsaint]

Forgot to mention, I was dead the whole time, what I thought was reality was really just a dream of the fayth, the call was coming from inside the house, and since I just know someone is going to ask, I was phone.

[Fiosha_Maureiba]

I usually get the reaction of "There's a FFXIV?!" And then they do the usual negative response of FFXIII, to which, I defend.

And someone who called FFXIV "fail", I ate their cookies and commented, "fail!". At least I tried the cookie before saying fail, he hasn't tried FFXIV (in truth, his batch of cookies tasted like "hot nothing", to which I might've otherwise said, "I think this recipe needs more work, it's difficult to taste it" as opposed to shouting out "Fail!" in the most vengeful manner possible).

We haven't talked of FFXIV since. And his cookies still taste like hot nothing. We're working on that though.

[Aenarion]

lol stuff

if true, that guy needs to grow a pair, 'cause he obviously ain't got any.

So how should you deal with peer pressure? If you really enjoy the game you have to stick up for yourself. It would suck to lose social standing with anyone in your circle, but if you truly enjoy playing, it might be worth it.

stop being a loser who gives a damn about what other people think about the games you play. and lulz at the "social standing" bits, are you being serious?

[Neptune]

To the OP sounds like you have some awesome friends.

Did you even read the OP?

You make things up to get sympathy/attention/etc, you deserve w/e people say about you. Also, to die in a fire.

Did your cupcake taste bad?

[Jinko]

Did you even read the OP?

I did, thanks for asking, FWIW it was a waste of my time.

[Neptune]

fail strawman is fail, I did not dispute the existence of social standing, but when one's "social standing" in a "gaming circle" comes to dictate what one does IRL, well, let's just say the guy has much bigger issues to deal with.

Ok, thanks for clarifying, and I agree with you that someone affected by peer pressure has bigger issues to tackle. Imagine for a moment the life of someone with such issues to tackle. What are the odds that they will suddenly be galvanized to tackle them over this? It's far more likely, in my opinion, that peer pressure will play out differently for them. I wonder, though someone would never come post it here, whether anyone dropped the game in a situation like that.