Quote Originally Posted by Vahlnir View Post
People will be people. Always.
This is true - but the forums have a bad habit of overestimating how malicious "people" actually are.

Take vote kick, for instance. Back before it was added to the game, the forums were ablaze with folks predicting the doom and gloom that would occur when it was added. Duty Finder would be flooded with trolls, forming parties with each other specifically to take folks to the ends of dungeons and then kick them, just for lulz.

Nowadays, folks can barely imagine not having the kick feature. It's a useful tool for removing folks who've disconnected, or are harassing party members, or what have you. Is it sometimes abused? Of course it is. But Duty Finder has not collapsed under the weight of the trolling, like many were expecting.

Seriously, though, the game DOES need some way for players to measure their own performance, ideally in such a way where the game actually suggests ways they can improve. Even when players TRY to help other players, many times they're on such a higher level of play that the advice they give sounds like gobbledygook. Just using the term oGCD will get a player's eyes spinning if they have no idea what a global cooldown is, or what actions it applies to - to say nothing of concepts like ability queuing, animation lock, and so on and so forth. It doesn't help when folks use terms from other games that are never used in this one, such as "taunt". Many of these concepts are crucial to understand in difficult content, and the game does not do much to help learn them.