Quote Originally Posted by Leonus View Post
The people who wanted to play it but found it difficult to in harder content because of constant hot bar staring and “business”? This inevitably leads to player exclusion because… you know… people are assholes.
I don’t believe players playing suboptimally ‘inevitably’ leads to player exclusion. I watched VPRs drop their NG during the opening weeks of the new raid series, and no one was kicked or publicly criticised. Most FFXIV players are forgiving of suboptimal play, outside of content where playing as optimally as possible becomes more of a requirement.

‘Exclusion’ implies players are blocked from participating in some way, when the issues you have described can be overcome with practice and experience. VPR, even prior to these changes, was on the easier side of job difficulty scale.

Where exclusion might happen is in Savage content or Extremes, where playing closer to optimally becomes more of a requirement - but that expectation is applied to every job.

Given that VPR was still on the easier side of the job difficulty scale prior to these changes, it’s highly unlikely that players struggling with NG uptime were attempting content where that would matter (Extremes or Savage).