Time to hang it up?

[LianaThorne]

It's just frustrating when you're actively trying to be positive. I just want to play the game. I don't want to deal with other people's dirty laundry. And what makes it worse is nobody is willing to give you the slightest courtesy otherwise. Like even saying, "Hello." At the start of a dungeon is rare anymore. Even staying long enough to get commendations out is rare. I've been playing since 2013, and it was really bad back then as well. I just expected after all this time and the multitude of communication apps that we as a playerbase would be more social and less selfish, but here we are. I'm in a group of people who care more about the reward than the gameplay. More about the wasted time than the comradery of it all.

It stinks. If I wanted to play with children like this, I'd go play Wow. At least in Wow, the aggression is more out in the open where I can deal with it easier.

I'm just tired of it all. I am actively starting to hate a game with a narrative of positivity because of all the negativity. And all I want to do is log on to play shoot the shit be friendly. I hate this.

And I know nice blog is coming, but it I spilt my heart on the table here.

You're on a massive RP server tbh. Mateus is basically a miniature Balmung, so that's probably why you're encountering a lot of toxicity compared to other places. The venue RP crowd are personally one of the worst groups that exists in this game, it genuinely feels like dealing with teenage girls who get rabid for drama. They also like to use "it's just RP" when doing genuinely abusive things to other people, like flirting with other people in front of their spouses when they know it upsets them or being flat out racist/xenophobic. I recently encountered an RPer on Balmung that only played 14 to find women to cheat on his wife with while shes pregnant. It's not a crowd worth being in.

Not all Crystal is like that though, Diabolos for example (where I am) people will chat leisurely in NN and only really get butthurt if someone drops DT spoilers in there. There's also a lack of RP there so we don't have the weirdos drip over in the way they do Balmung/Mateus. If you feel up to it you're welcome to hang out in my FC till you find somewhere else to go with a larger social setting.

For the rest of your post though, this is unfortunately a product of years of people being screamed at by randoms in dungeons. People are genuinely afraid to speak now due to Square sometimes banning people for giving that advice if the person loses it and reports them (basically for obstructing someone else's gameplay or some excuse like that). Things are more social in extremes+ since you're kind of forced to talk to each other to understand mechanics and get a plan going, but dungeon content is definitely going to be quiet. Just how the game is now unfortunately.