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[basilbc]

There's three things going on with the people making these threads.

1. They are not emotionally mature enough to handle even the tiniest inconvenience. They will claim that not being able to play a video game (thAt tHey paId fOr!) is much more than an inconvenience.

2. They are over confident in their assumptions about the answers to the problems they're upset about.

3. They have an overwhelming sense of entitlement because they aren't used to being told that there is no answer.

Each and every one of these threads is full of this and I've seen it so many times across all the expansion launches for this and other games that I look forward to reading just how far these people will go.

There is an optional fourth thing in that sometimes they think this is all also a huge conspiracy to scam them out of their pittance of a subscription.

Sure, there are a lot of people posting that are acting extremely childish. I don't think painting with a broad brush is doing your statement any favors, though.

I'm frustrated for a lot of reasons; and yeah, on paper they seem pretty minor, but you know how the internet tends to make everything sound like a 'life or death' situation. I wanted to do extremes blind with my FC, a thing that didn't happen, not because of the long queues, but because of the random disconnects that prevented me from reaching the endgame before everyone else. It's a minor thing in the long run, but considering this was my first opportunity (I started FFXIV mid-pandemic), it was a downer to realize that once again I had fallen behind my friends through no fault of my own.

Does this mean the end of the world? Of course not! I've been doing a lot of other stuff while waiting in queue to get DC'd again, so it's probably been the most productive I've been since September or something! But for a lot of people, I can't imagine the experience is anything short of enraging.

I totally understand and respect the situation that the team is in; it's basically an impossible fix at this moment, which sucks for both the devs and the playerbase. But it is hard to not be disappointed when, like me, you've waited in queues for 29 hours over 7 days and only played 6 hours last friday because you've been disconnected from the queue so much.