Do you know why the average pf player is so bad?

[strawberrycake]

I think you are missing the point the devs have tried to hammer home. You going into an instanced trial is you agreeing to do the thing for up to an hour. You have the option to leave the instance if the play style of others isn’t to your liking. They’re being bad at the game is not against the rules put out by the devs.

It's not about being against the rules, you're missing the point, Look specifically at what I said The average player is bad because they do not know the fundamentals the game itself expects you to know. There are no "Play Styles". The game expects you to know the difference between a Stack and a Multi Stack, It expects you to infer based on what you see to understand and adapt. We learn this in School, jobs even teach you like this, It's literally, being shown an example, and then being shown the answer, from there you can infer so much. At this point, it's the player, not the game, because the game has shown you the needed information through out the lvling process, and other high content.

At this point any inability to keep up is a lack of willingness to learn on the players part, this would happen if the game was harder, but the fact that it's easier, makes it so much more of an exacerbated issue. If XIV was more complex, which it has been, people would get so much more grace with such basic issues. But now that it's so much more ...manageable for lack of better words and people still struggle, it's telling of the player, not the game. I'm speaking on the basics ofc, because thats how black and white this playerbase is in NA, theres not much room for nuance, they're either someone who understands and or someone who doesn't. And like it's been said above me, the Majority of average players in XIV are, bad, and there no real exception for that.

If you are so hard up that you need to play with “good” players, you have the option to make a linkshell/community with like minded people. You are encouraged to do so! But when you play with randos, you get what you get.Until the game or the devs want players to improve, they won’t. Nor will they need to.

Making your own groups is definitely a choice, but it's not one always available. I'm also assuming you're saying the whole hard up on playing with good players thing as a general statement as I'm not, simply stating the facts that people in XIV, are pretty bad at learning what this game teaches. But when I play with randos I expect people to be bad, hence why I heal, the facts that I can carry runs by myself is a testament to how much Yoshida has over simplified this game and needs to rethink how things are going. Because I should be able to hold a basic standard to other humans, the devs making the game like this isn't an excuse for that and it shows in both EU and JP, do Your part we're not here to carry and baby you. I can't wait for the day we get back to that mindset in NA.