Why people are bad at the game, and why they never learn to play it.

[AllenThyl]

People who are playing a video game, signing up for solo queue duty roulette and are impatient are already not "valuing their time", and it is not a lack of empathy that leads to not respecting their need to rush, but a disrespect for the fact that they are burdening others with their poor time managemrnt choices. Empathy and respect are two different things.

We are basically just running around in circles, mainly because your reading comprehension is absolutely abysmal. The essential question is this: "Is it okay to needlessly waste other people's time?". For you, that answer is "yes absolutely in every situation no matter the context". And there is no argument I can make to convince you otherwise, because the answer to this question is one of culture and personal ethics. You have your rationalizations for dismissing other people's interest, while you put your own interests front and center. It's ego-centrism in it's purest form. Which sadly, is very common in the Western sphere, especially North America.

Relative time is irrelevant, a fight that lasts 30 seconds vs 15 isn't a collossal waste of time because it's 100% longer.

You heard it here first, people. Future Nobel price laureate. 15 seconds, 5 minutes, 50 minutes, 10%, 50%, 500%, all irrelevant.
As I said, you are delusional. I mean that in the full sense of the word, not as some kind of "gotcha" on the forums. You live in a fantasy world when it comes to this game.
To give you some rough numbers: A dungeon with trusts takes about 21-23 minutes, a "normal" run with reasonable engagement from the whole party about 15-18. A good run will be 12-14 minutes, while actual speed runs with non-standard comp will be sub 10 minutes. All for the same dungeon. The fact that you think asking people to play better than the NPCs who have been deliberately tuned to be worse than any player group is some kind of "unreasonable expectation", isn't the superior moral cause that you think it is.

Queuing for duty roulette is literally not for hardcore players, they are a resource to support people who are progressing through the MSQ, and them treating the content as though it was their playground being interfered with by casual or less sweaty players is what leads to arguments like this.

You complain about elitism, while you denigrate a significant chunk of the player population to nothing but your personal servants. What a ridiculous amount of delusional entitlement.

By the way, there is this thread here, about a healer who managed to not deal a single point of damage (not even buffing their party) for a while run of the current Alliance Raid: https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...to-be-a-mentor
You are suspiciously absent. Surely, the only moral thing to do is to go and defend this person to the death, right? Against all the elites! Who expect a healer in a lvl 100 dungeon to deal more than 0 damage!