Why do people avoid getting better at the game?

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

Watching it work it’s way up the totem pole always brings a smile to my face

It just drives me nuts when people try to act superior, when they themselves have faults. This person, according to some public info, is not all that great. So seeing them bash others is just insane to me. The way they talk they shouldn't be accepting themself in their own party...



I will never claim to be above others, no matter how good I am. There's always someone better.

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

It's a game. Contrary to your expectations, most of us don't take it that seriously.

Someone who is not performing well may simply be new to the content and needs the chance to learn. That can't happen if no one will give them the opportunity.

They may have a disability that prevents them from seeing clearly or reacting rapidly. I'm not going to crap on someone because they don't live up to some random standard.

At least you're removing yourself from the general player pool to stick to your friends group. Now we don't have to worry about dealing with your bad attitude. Thank you for your contribution to improving our community.

What would make this game so much better is allow PK'ing that is what will toughen people up

[Velvet_Lunarfang]

you mean when he was still a dick. and then grew up and become less of a dick.
Something tells me someone didn't finish GU

Haseo was better off and more stronger until Atoli corrupted him. Terror of Death for a reason

[Valkyrie_Lenneth]

What would make this game so much better is allow PK'ing that is what will toughen people up

No you'd have a dead game.

[EgilTheStressedMage]

Haseo was better off and more stronger until Atoli corrupted him. Terror of Death for a reason

Said no one ever.

[Jojoya]

What would make this game so much better is allow PK'ing that is what will toughen people up

If you were as tough as you want others to think, you'd be playing a PvP game. It's only a weak coward that wants to add PKs to a PvE game.

[AnnRam]

If you were as tough as you want others to think, you'd be playing a PvP game. It's only a weak coward that wants to add PKs to a PvE game.

Pk system was the golden age of MMO's.
Someone killed you? you call your friends and fight back, eventually you could spend an entire day fighting a small group for a leveling spot, it was dope as hell. Now we have crystal players who are afraid of even getting hit by single mob.

[CrimsonThunder]

It wasn’t always catered to these poor skilled players. You could be knocked out of the fight for the duration of titan. You had to know what the names of skills were as the coin collector had no telegraphs. Proper rotations to both maximize dps and conserve tp.

The game only changed to become accessible due to the low skill floor of the new generation of players.

“Walk into a game”. I’ll tell you, this is not the same game I walked into. It panders to the super casual Limsa afkers just in case they decide to do something

I'm glad someone else said it instead of me. So many kids these days coming in saying ohhh the game has always been this way when it has most certainly been not.

For a lot of us that's also an extra source of frustration. God forbid if most of these post-SHB players had to deal with the Heavensward standard, they'd crap their pants.

[Tigore]

Ok, let's try this again. As it currently stands, the opposition for keeping things the way it is would very likely be winning by miles for this debate. Perhaps some dungeons could stand to have an increase in difficulty, but we need a baseline for how much more difficult. Don't go overboard since we do need to warm players up for higher challenges rather than brick wall them. MMOs do need a flow of new players whether we like it or not to keep the support up for it.

I will try to re-summarize from the very first post. The OP Dixie said he / she feels that the game is not as hard as they would like it to be since the game does not push us to. They understand that Extreme / Savage difficulty is obviously overboard for story dungeons. They like the difficulty of the 6.0 trial boss as a way to introduce more challenge. They are also debating if there are reward incentives to entice players to give the slight bump in challenge a go.

[Renalt]

Pk system was the golden age of MMO's.
Someone killed you? you call your friends and fight back, eventually you could spend an entire day fighting a small group for a leveling spot, it was dope as hell. Now we have crystal players who are afraid of even getting hit by single mob.

I'm 100% with you on this. I miss the days of BC/WotLK days when World Defense would go off and you see one or two just messing around killing NPCs so a gank squad comes in and puts them down...and then they get some friends and now you're outnumbered and getting ganked, then you get more back up and so forth until a huge war is just going on outside the village and it goes on for like an hour until both sides eventually get tired of killing each other.

I would like it if 14 had it but it also makes total sense that it is not a thing in this game.