Getting bullied out of your own party sure is fun

[Kazahashi]

Today, I just got to Ifrit Extreme Mode and went to Party Finder to get a party together to beat it. First party did well, we got to the phase after nails, but healers died RIGHT before nails were down and after that, folks left. Next party I got was seemingly ok, until we got in there.

From the beginning a BRD said that if anyone else rolled on the piece he wanted he was gone, and I commented that that was rude and that people should be allowed to roll on something if they want it. Needless to say, the rest of the fight didn't go well. I was distracted (I don't remember what by) and ate an eruption due to dodging too late. The griefing began about how I need to "learn to not be bad", to which I defended myself. After the party failed to beat the third nail phase (keep in mind I had gotten past it before, and had someone running a parser before that said our DPS was fantastic), they proceeded to tell me that I was the reason for the fail. That my DPS was somehow HALF of the other BLM in the group, even though we had the same gear and used the same rotation for everything.

They said "well you have one more shot or we're going to have to replace you"....in my party, that I started. I gave it another shot and got told that I had to leave because I was killing the party, was bad, and that another DPS was ready already to replace me (this was the BRD, and the healers and tank obliged him as well, and added to the grief). Keep in mind too that the BRD, as awesome and amazing as he was, died multiple times during the times we attempted, as did other players, which also doesn't help DPS during nails whatsoever. I wound up dropping party and turning off the game, telling my FC that I may be quitting (there's a lot more to that then just the game, I have a ton of personal stuff going on and the game happens to be my bastion of sanity), thank god for my FC, (SeeD, by the way), who backed me and took the time to hash it out with me.

I have never, ever experienced this volatile behavior to this degree in any other MMO I've played. The level of elitism and all around bad attitude, is honestly, a plague. I'm not sure what others experiences are, but I'm quite taken aback by it to be honest. I have since gone into another Ifrit EX party I made, and got told again that my DPS was fine and where it should be. The bullying in this game is beyond asinine, and people act like they run the game and can treat people like utter garbage just because they don't like them.

tl;dr, I know....but I had to get it out there, because it's been bugging me all day. I am so tired of the "This isn't a winning party" (saw that a lot during Titan), or "Anyone got a parser running?" after a wipe on EX mode primals (not due to heart or anything like that, but gaols and stuff, and funny thing, peoples actual DPS wasn't the issue, the issue was them just pushing themselves not enough). It's really becoming completely unenjoyable to play this game. Even in CT there's full FC Alliances that go around trolling and wiping the raid because it's funny, so even easier content is abysmal to attempt sometimes.