Regarding Yoshida-san's Recent Message to Fans

[Atelier-Bagur]

Imagine getting anxiety over a game lmaaaaoooo

Which roles and stop wasting everyone’s time

again I say, give them a chance to so that they quickly get over the anxiety rather than discourage them from doing the job.

[Dyvid]

[Ranaku]

Wish we had a timemachine to send all the players with anxiety back into ARR/HW and let them experience the good old days of aggro management, cleric stance and TP problems. Also no sprint as a melee cause all your TP would be gone!

Tanking nowdays is a joke compared to back then, back then when you saw a blackmage in your group you knew you will spend half of the dungeon trying desperately to get your precious aggro back.

Oh yeah and you did no damage at all when you were using your tankstance! So offtanks had always to turn their tankstance off! Or well paladin had even two stances for both tanking and dps.

So grow up, the stuff mobs hit you with today are wet pool noodles compared to the sledgehammers you had to endure in ARR! Not to mention that you only have to cough into their direction and you have their attention until the end of time(ers).

[Atelier-Bagur]

You people must been really "fun" at parties.














*lolgettit? no? oh well..ok*

[Ranaku]

You people must been really "fun" at parties.

*lolgettit? no? oh well..ok*

That is so 2019. We all know parties are not a thing anymore.

[Floortank]

[CENTER]
Picture this, you're going into a new dungeon/raid/fight determined to do well even though you aren't that competent a player yet and along the way you make a mistake that leads to a party wipe.

You did your best but came up short, and now suddenly you're being harassed for being a bad tank/healer even though it's a class you love. They call you various obscenities, tell you to quit playing - or in one personal experience, one even went so far to tell me I should commit suicide.

Didn't really feel like ever playing again at all, did you?
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It sucks that this happened to you, but getting yelled at over a mistake in a video game is not equivalent in impact, context, or scope to the verbal abuse game developers take from customers.

No, based on your bad duty experience, you don't know how it feels. Especially if you aren't working 100 hours a week and taking actual damage to your physical health to keep a project on schedule, only to have a bunch of know nothings tell you that you failed at your job.

[Fishtacos]

I honestly think I've only run into this kind of toxicity once since I started playing last summer, but when I played WoW it was every dungeon and raid. You could be doing your job perfectly and people would still flip out on you. There were a lot of reasons I quit that game, but that was one of the biggest.

[IdowhatIwant]

Ask yourselves; do YOU know how it feels?

Feelings are for the weak.

[Millerna]

I pretty much stopped doing duty finder. Up until Endwalker, I'd always level my white mage first. With endwalker I switched to reaper, and my white mage hasn't really seen any game time at all.

I work 60 hours a week on a quiet week, up to 80 hours a week when it's a bit more busy. I'm the lead developer of an in-house software that the whole company uses, and it's seldom that we get any compliments. It's usually complaints about things taking too long to implement, or things not working like they should, even though the requirements for said feature were approved beforehand by those complaining the most.

When I get home, and when I'm actually motivated enough to log in at all, I prefer to stick with my squadron and trusts, as they don't complain when I'm not 100% perfect, which I never am. Dark knight has actually been quite enjoyable to play with my squadron

[Darthgummibear]

The general player attitude and a lot of the responses in this thread are why more people don't tank. This isn't exclusive to FFXIV...it pervades the entire MMO-sphere, and will only continue to get worse until people remember how to be human beings.