Self-Destructing Community?

[drmambo1999]

Have been harassed and kicked before for explaining fights for quote " Don't spoil the game on me"

So now anytime I see the new player bonus pop up unless they ask for help or advice I don't bother explaining stuff.

So I'd probably advise to speak up if you need help, usually people are pretty helpful and will help out.

Yeah I ran into this with midas 1 last night. XD There were five new players and I started giving info and let slip the name of the mini boss before the fight. (LOL btw) XD Only one player got put off by it, but yeah, it can be risky doing that. I usually try and ask if anyone wants info first, but sometimes I forget to ask. lel

[hagare]

Have been harassed and kicked before for explaining fights for quote " Don't spoil the game on me"

So now anytime I see the new player bonus pop up unless they ask for help or advice I don't bother explaining stuff.

So I'd probably advise to speak up if you need help, usually people are pretty helpful and will help out.

that's probably better xD
some people wants to try out new content completely fresh sometimes.
let them get slapped around a bit then ask if anyone wants an explanation :3

[AlphaFox]

I will admit if its duty finder and we are getting mad at people for wiping on brand new content, you need to kinda grow a pair and let people have the same fun everyone else did. We spent almost 3 hours on Seph Ex, all blind and we had fun. Talking and discussing how to do certain mechanics till we finally pieced it together ourselves and got to the adds. I mean not everyone had the luxury of jumping on the game and playing for hours on end from the moment it was released and these people deserve to have some fun with the content. Now after a certain amount of time has passed then I can see it being a little more reasonable to want people to view a video or least have some idea what they are getting into.

[ToniRomo]

I don't mind explaining things to new people. I hate it when they join, know nothing and don't speak up at all.

[ErikMynhier]

Yea cause it so bad that people want to be able to experience the content first before knowing every detail of it.



Cause you know there are people out there that have lives and can't be there doing the new content at 5am patch day.

Preach it sister.

[Toguro]

I usually laugh when people are always saying watch a video or a guide for something out for only 1-3 days.

Funny how people would request others to watch videos but there were people who went in fresh like.. 8 hours ago, did it and beat it and it was okay. Then people who are 8 hours late due to sleep or something are yelled at for not watching a video.

I love going in blind and I hate when people just start explaining everything when no one asked for their help. Even worse if the majority of the team is new and request that an explanation not be given but people explain anyway.

[Draken]

Guides are up within hours of new content going live, if not by the next day. So, if you aren't there on release day, take the time to look it up. That's where the explosion comes from, cause honestly.. alot of us are tired of doing the research ourselves and then expected to hand hold lazy people who don't want to "spoil the fight."

Some people enjoy playing a game and figuring things out. That's the point of playing the game. Not to watch a video on how to do it then try to imitate.

[Dualblade]

Only thing I have to add to this: Pretty much anything beyond two people is going to have some form of toxicity, small as it sometimes is (and large too). Pretty sure that if Candy Crush, for example, has some sorta chat feature you'd see plenty there as well and thats supposed to be rather casual to my understanding.

By the same token you'll also get niceness that goes beyond what you would expect even without expecting toxicity from everyone you meet. Roll of the dice and all that.

[Taika]

When there are new people in the new content, I think the best thing to do is to ask if they want stuff to be explained or if they want to go in blind (although I also think it's ok to just see if they ask for advice and not say anything if not). What I've done is explaining how some of the stuff works after we've cleared the fight. If you want everyone to know what's going on to just farm the content, make a farm party in PF (it's much faster in all ways).

[Melondra]

back in the day when mmo's first came out you think we had video guids to show us everything before we even ran it once, no we didn't the internet was new and MMO just came out at the time "EverQuest" This generation is spoiled beyond belief and they think everything should be done for them. Just like you see 5 and 6 years walking around with I-phone 6's and I-Pads. If you saw a guid on you tube then technically you didn't clear anything some one did it for you.