Why Does It Feel Like Poor Play Is Acceptable (I'm Venting.)

[winsock]

It’s not exactly “high standards” to expect players to perform the bare minimum of their job or to hit more than just one button (see OP’s Butcher Block AND Butcher Block ONLY example).

It's not whether the standards are high or low, it's whether or not they are reasonable standards to hold everyone to.

Consider the following players:
A) experienced ffxiv tank rolls a new tank character on a new server
B) new ffxiv tank player, but veteran tank in countless mmos
C) veteran ffxiv player, but completely new to tanking
D) completely new to mmos
E) completely new to video games
^ these players will all be very different skill-wise at level 30.

Is it really that unreasonable for someone completely new to videogames to wrongly assume that "cooler animation" equals "unconditionally better"?
Is it really reasonable to expect that no one make that mistake?

Yet, they will likely all make it to lvl 30 because the game's bare minimum standards are not the same as your minimum standards.


And what are you going to do about it? Stop pugging? Kick from party and move on? or rant on the forums about the younger generation?