Vote Kick is abused daily

[Linx0r]

Vote kicks have a number of factors in them but the main one is player personalities. Most of the time people are understanding and could care less if you are going slow or make a few mistakes. Where this falls apart is when there are jerks in the party. Votekicking isn’t from an RP personality it’s from the jerk behind the keyboard. In mmos there are times where real life and gaming personalities can clash and this is one. If you get kicked, calm down, take a few breathes and q again. I guarantee you will find a better group

[Linx0r]

Unless, you are the jerk.....then just chill out and remember that your life has been good enough that you can afford to play an mmo. Be nice to people. It will come back to you.

[Tussin]

if a run is that bad, people can abandon it or tough it out. people aren't mature enough for this power, and it is abused for the wrong reasons 9/10 times

[AngelCheese77]

Since I have played, I have ever only vote kicked 2 people, and that was because they went AFK/LD and they didn't come back after about 5 minutes. But I've not seen anyone be vote kicked or been a part of one for any other reason.

[EmmaVirgin]

i become my "best" kick from 3 french players. they decided that they dont want to play the dungeon and wait 5 minutes to kick me. i told them that i report this cuz they waste time of other players. the short answer was: do it we dont care cuz we pop up directly into the next roulette. i was a dps btw.

special thanks to this 3 frogs for beeing the biggest trash if ever saw in this game o/

[AnimaAnimus]

I have since blacklisted the two players and hopefully will not encounter them again.

Unfortunately blacklist does not prevent you from being grouped with that person again. It really needs to though.

I have blisted jerks and macro dialog/emote spammers in pts on multiple occasions just to get them again either that same day or the day after.

Why SE didn't incorporate into the blacklist function a way to prevent you from getting grouped with that person again is beyond me. That seems like the only real reason for being able to do it cross world to begin with.

[Kohlian]

It's the nature of the beast. This has very rarely happened to me in MMO's, but it does happen when being the minority. I do not believe this means the system is broken. If you're finding yourself being kicked often, I would re-evaluate the way you talk with your party or how you're playing your class before blaming the vote kick. Just my two gil.

[ko_]

I've never seen it happen but I'm not going to say it doesn't happen. I've seen how people react ingame when a question is asked in dungeons and it can go from helpful, to silence, to rage instantly. I've seen all those kinds of replies in various difference dungeons. Yeah 9 times out of 10 does seem like ALOT, but who knows. He very well might have the shittyist luck ever. Wouldn't be the first time I've sen insane crap happen to someone that was unbelieveable.

[Malblind]

I have very rarely seen this abused. If someone is kicked it is mostly because they deserve it because of afk or the group keeps wiping and a tank cant hold threat, a healer cant keep the tank healed or a dps is constantly pulling mobs ahead of a tank and doesnt stop.

I have been kicked for good reasons and a few that made me scratch my head. Good reasons are for being impaired and having threat, healing or a being dead too much problem.... or was afk for longer than planned because of said impairedness or RL responsibilities cropping up.

The few that confused me was once Tanking normal Gubal Library, the rest of the group kept wiping due to the book turn so with 30% left on the boss i just soloed it, then on the next trash pull i was a bit more confident than i should have and pulled too many mobs...after the wipe i was kicked. The other one, i was a dps in a stormblood dungeon, the run went really well, until we got to the last boss and got i booted with no warning, no reason i could see.

[Malblind]

I can see how it may be abused and hopefully in those cases it is looked at and punished but those cases are very very rare, if you are getting booted constantly then there is probably something else going on you dont see or your on at a bad time that coincides with some trolls on a bad server. As for removing it....no that would allow even more abuse IMO