"gogogo" might make me quit this game.

[andrealfus]

I'd suggest moving to a server on a JP data center. Elemental has a rather high English speaking population, with some servers (Tonberry, Kujata) at over 50%.
If you run the game using the English client, you'll still land in mostly English speaking groups, even if you set your DF languages to JEDF.

People here tend to play a bit more slowly. They still try to get stuff done, but not at the expense of safety. Chatting isn't even needed to find out whether your group is capable and willing to go fast, it mostly regulates itself after the first pull.

"safety" lol

it's not like if you die in ffxiv you die in real life, calm down

[Shironeko_Narunyan]

calm down

Does my reply somehow come across as if I was excited?

[raelgun]

You’ve said this on several threads. While there is policy that says you can vote kick people for different play styles (eg 3 don’t want to watch cutscene can vote kick the newbie), the newbie is NOT violating the terms of service.

Never in the history of this game has there ever been a case that supports this opinion.

The opposite, however, does have support (eg. Main scenario cutscenes are now unskippable).

So, yes, you and your friends have license to be massive wang-rods if you really want to, but no, the newbie isn’t breaking ToS, despite how many times you keep saying they are.

For the record, there is nothing specific in the ToS about “disruption of gameplay”.
It’s just a huge blanket statement, which may or may not even involve actual game play, they could be talking about bullying, they could be talking about DDOSing…

(3.2 Disruption. You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players, including the disruption of Square Enix's computers and servers.)

Now, the actual list of prohibited activities does go into detail.
It says, very clearly, “Obstruction of Gameplay” and lists specifics on what it means. No where in there is “going slow and watching cutscenes” mentioned. In fact, what they mean by obstruction is stuff like overlapping NPCs so players can’t select or otherwise causing players to be unable to progress. Slow =/= obstruction.


Read the fricking ToS…

https://support.na.square-enix.com/f...la=1&kid=68216

maybe you should read the person I quoted, read the thread which fits the 'You may not in any way disrupt or interfere with the Game experience of other players', willingly not healing for the person I was quoting fits this, doesn't matter whom it was for.

Also are you really trying to represent the history of the game with that statement, you don't represent that position.

[raelgun]

What is this hate on that you have against new people? It's new people that are going to keep the game growing, not entrenched veterans.

In a team-focused situation, players that don't maintain awareness of the entire team's status and just go off lone wolfing are the ones disrupting gameplay. They're not making sure that their entire team is ready for the encounter so they are setting the team up for failure.

Not new players, its players like you.

Its players like you that are trying to influence people that veterans are to be held at gun point.

As you said, its a team focussed situation, so why the hell are you letting your team die, your ideology to punish people in game is not your right no matter the situation and more so because the vets want to play how they have been playing.

[Gameovers]

I know I’m nitpicking a bit here, but in snow cloak when the snowball drops with the goobbue in it. I always thought that all 3 of them will aggro immediately so minimum pull is 3. This one tank somehow stayed so far away that they only pulled one of them and we then proceeded to beat the snot out of that one goobbue for the next 15 seconds and it was a surreal experience for me. As a healer main who started playing a year ago, I felt like I’ve seen everything.

Small pulling at the beginning when you’re a sprout/new/uncomfortable is fine, understandable, and maybe even acceptable. But at some point, you have to start improving and getting better and eventually being better. Not doing standard pulls when you’ve gotten more experience is like telling your math teacher that addition and subtraction is good enough and you don’t wanna move on to multiplication and division.

To be fair, The Division was only good for new york and the new expac called Multipilcation I heard in Division 2 is gonna be worst then the main game in 2. so I'mma stick to Tom clancey's Division 1 only with Addition

[caffe_macchiato]

The community has been changing a lot lately. Leveling dungeons have to go as quickly as possible. People have been far more aggressive in pushing damage meters and punishing those with poor performance. Statics are banning certain classes from participating in EW content. Hopefully, a flood of new players in EW will counter all of that, and I think it will.

[Ronduwil]

The game literally has a feature to skip cutscenes so thats validating its upto players if they wish to skip or not. Also nothing in the TOS actually states players have to wait on others, but causing players to die wilfully in this scenario is grieving.

This is clearly done with the expectation that players will be considerate and wait. We know this because of the change in the MSQ that disabled cut scene skipping. In most cases, cut scenes are short enough that the majority of players can keep their pants on long enough to let the others catch up. When it became problematic, SE took matters into their own hands and now we're all stuck watching a half hour worth of cut scenes, even if every single member of the group has already seen them. Please don't dare SE to force us to be polite. We've already seen that they can and will do it when provoked.

[aveyond-dreams]

I have yet to see anyone "aggressively pushing damage meters" and banning certain classes from EW high end content. These are no longer the days where you had to bring a Dragoon and Bard together to stack piercing debuffs, etc. Every class is viable in endgame content.

What is more common nowadays is the basic expectation of knowigng your job/role well enough to clear instances in a timely manner, since a lot of core vets still run content while much of the mid-tier players have moved on to other games while waiting for EW to release. As someone who has been around since ARR I have no interest in carrying single-pulling tanks or dps who do not know their aoe rotations.

Guess that makes me a toxic elitist.

[Kolaina]

This is clearly done with the expectation that players will be considerate and wait. We know this because of the change in the MSQ that disabled cut scene skipping. In most cases, cut scenes are short enough that the majority of players can keep their pants on long enough to let the others catch up. When it became problematic, SE took matters into their own hands and now we're all stuck watching a half hour worth of cut scenes, even if every single member of the group has already seen them. Please don't dare SE to force us to be polite. We've already seen that they can and will do it when provoked.

Oh just quit with the msq cutscene argument. The only reason that one is different is because those dungeons can be completed in their entirety before cutscenes are finished.
If your argument was valid, you wouldn’t be able to skip any cutscene on game during group content. A little critical thinking can go a long way.

[Xaruko_Nexume]

The community has been changing a lot lately. Leveling dungeons have to go as quickly as possible. People have been far more aggressive in pushing damage meters and punishing those with poor performance. Statics are banning certain classes from participating in EW content. Hopefully, a flood of new players in EW will counter all of that, and I think it will.

I just can't put my finger on what caused this massive change/influx as of late...what could it be? If only some had warned about it...

In all seriousness, if I see certain jobs being blacklisted from content in Endwalker, that will be the final MMORPG straw for me. If that happens in this game too, I will be done with genre that I have played most of my life.