If you're gonna ask how a fight works, why not just look it up first?

[SilkaN]

I have never; not once, in all my time playing this game, seen anyone demand an explanation for fight or dungeon.

Well, lucky you!

[Kyuuen]

you play like 10 minutes a day or what?

Approximately 111 days spent on my main, and approximately another 50 days between my two alts. So somewhere in the neighborhood of 160 days spent in game... sooo.. sure lets call it 10 minutes a day. =P

Well, lucky you!

Lucky me, or is it people blowing things out of proportion? I'm suspecting more the latter to be fairly honest.

[Inori-Yuzuriha]

I have never; not once, in all my time playing this game, seen anyone demand an explanation for fight or dungeon.

you play like 10 minutes a day or what?

[Gemina]

you play like 10 minutes a day or what?

I can say the same as him. I'm not on 24/7, but I run enough dungeons to complete the challenge log for them and roulette every week. I've literally have never had someone actually DEMAND things be explained to them. Maybe that's just the impression you get when things HAVE to slow down a notch or two for them, or from other mmos? I dunno, but typically unless someone speaks up, it is assumed everyone knows how the fight goes, and this isn't always the case.

[Evergrey]

"Why not make some friends to play with instead of going in with randoms?"

A comment I read sometime on some similare thread.
And honestly that's the best solution.
This is an MMO with lots of people who play differently.
So try and find like minded people to play with for maximum efficiency.

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

There are text guides out there in addition to the videos, often done by the same people. The OP isn't criticizing people who want to go in blind, nor is there an implied requirement that players MUST research ahead of time. It's a complaint against people that want the research results via explanation in party rather than just doing the research themselves. If someone can't retain what they learned in a video they watched ahead of time, what makes you think they'll retain the instructions given to them at the start of the fight. This isn't about "playstyle," it's about courtesy to your fellow players. If you can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes watching/reading a guide, how can you expect someone to take 5 minutes to make up a guide on the spot for you?

[Nalyna]

You don't have to watch a video for every fight. As a new player, I Googled "FF 14 dungeons." The second link goes to consolegameswiki. It has a nice list of dungeons. You click on the one you are headed to and just give a cursory glance. Some even have a TL;DR Bulletpoint sort of format. Most of the explanations are really short. If there was a page with a lot of fights that was sort of long, I might jot down a few main points for each fight.

I glance at something like this before I enter a new dungeon. It takes probably less than a minute or two and I have a brief idea of what's going on. I still let the group know if it's my first time just in case they want me to know something that perhaps wasn't in the guide.

This is a really simple way for me to hopefully not be the weakest link and cause a wipe that might have been avoided. Because there is no guarantee that someone is going to be nice enough to explain every fight, even if you do tell them you are new.

[Jack-Frosttiger]

Hi iam German so i hope you will Understand what i want to say.

I can understand everyone here who says its a MMO and yes i can also understand if some people counting diffrent things as wasting there Time... but in this Kind of Topic i have mixed feelings because it happend often enough to myself on my old Server.

So i say if the Content is Old like we get now 3.5 i would could 3.3 and older as Old. There you should have watched at least Vids for Primals, Trials, and Raids. Not for normal Dungeons. if somebody says Hi Firt Timer just need short Instructions to not Wipe the Party iam Happy to tell him the Important 2 or 3 things he need to know.

And why as the most People here are Saying. We are in a MMO we should Play together help each other and be Nice to Each other. And if somebody speaks up and says oh sorry i totale forgot that Boss may you fresh me up. Yes shure i do that because this is the Social Part of the Game.

Its the Same when i used to Tank the Low dungeon and doing Level roulette the First Part when i read New Player. i as the leader The Tank ask do you want a Full Tour or a short one. Because iam in the Level roulette the People how are new should have the same Possibilitys as me who already cleared it.

[CGMidlander]

Why, you ask?
Because some people are like this.

[SilkaN]

Why, you ask?
Because some people are like this.

this is glorious