Quote Originally Posted by thegreatonemal View Post
This might be news to you but most people don't google how to play video games they buy this problem is an mmo in general issue. when i play street fighter or ff7 i don't have to google how to do haduken or insert materia I press pause and go down to move list and have a tutorial on that very subject when it becomes relevant to the game that I can revisit anytime I please
i dont google "how to play" on a game when i dont want to do hard content.
I play on BDO, dont go PvP (the only place requesting to play well). So yes, i am probably a really bad player but heh, not a matter things i do dont need this...
I now play FFXIV mainly for RP, i know how to play because i am not amnesic, but more the game will progress, more my jobs will get changes the less i will be good. but doesnt matter i dont even go Xtrem.
I play PvE HL on wow as said, so there, my personnal play is important, i know it, i go where i need to know how to play well, reading theorycrafter topics, explanations about which talent etc.

If i find in heroic raid content a guy wanting a guide to know how to play. i will give him... and kick him the second after probably.


When i play slowly to a game, i dont care about guide, i run away from them to avoid any spoil!

But there, on MMORPG i play with X other people. Here on FFXIV most of time for major content, i go with 7 other people. Some of them probably took time to doing their best and more. it would be CLEARLY an INSULT to not ready a little myself for this content.

YES, when you come in such content, without mastering enough your job, it is an insult to the 7 other. same as saying "moron" to a guy. You speak about toxicity due to official parsing? THIS kind of guy you point is also toxicity.
We are not alone on MMORPG, so we all have to work to not being a deadweight... simply.



For the other point, GM will do as enough temporary ban as needed, and if after 3, 4 or 5 ban, complains continue to come about the guy, a perma-ban is not a matter.
If official parser increase this kind of toxicity it will be GMs' work to make it stop simply.
If GMs' cant manage it, the matter is not parser, but the GM team.