
Originally Posted by
strawberrycake
Years of playing NA and the massive decline since the beginning of Shadowbringers. I've made several threads before talking about the state of XIV. The game has flaws a lot of them. But in other regions said flaws don't keep people from playing the game, doing content, helping others. In NA you can barely do content without someone refusing to do their job, refusing to participate, now knowing their role, and its just handwaved a lot. I may have PF, which is fun, and it's nice, but I should be able to queue with randoms and just "do" content.
Is this me saying new people aren't welcome? No. Am I saying people don't forget or can't be returners, etc, etc. No. What I am saying is that in any other MMO NA people do the things I see EU and JP doing, normally, so why is XIV NA the odd one out compared to two other regions playing the same game.
As for NA, lowest clear rates, inability to say much without it turning to throwing mud. I get runs regularly where if I ask my co healer to heal I can shit for it over them just playing the game. And this isn;t saying the same can't happen elsewhere, but its been p normal to just work together and make the run fast elsewhere.
So just a combination of things all adding up to this.
Edit: And no I think refuses to be normal is the best way to word it, as no other MMO or Region within this MMO has these specific problems.