Counter to Elitism

[syntaxlies]

Just a random wish. I hope ARR incorporates features which discourages elitism and promotes casual players participating in more dungeons, other higher end activities.

For Example:

Perhaps a higher drop rate bonus when having a first time dungeon player in your group.

Bonus XP for entire party when grouping with a player with high rested time.

I'm sure theres many other ways, but basically giving incentive to group with casual players.

Thanks for reading

If you want to counter elites start playing better. They won't seem so great if you stop being so bad

[Elexia]

As long as there's people who has the need to throw their e-dicks around and slap people with it (typical in end-game shells/guilds) elitism will always exist. No counters no prevention it's inevitable.

[stanleyyoung]

As long as there's people who has the need to throw their e-dicks around and slap people with it (typical in end-game shells/guilds) elitism will always exist. No counters no prevention it's inevitable.

Exactly. The only thing you can really do is just not play with the elites, find a group of ppl that have a similar agenda to yours or play with ppl that are known for helping others & being kind. Just let the elites play with the elites and you play with everyone you see to your liking.

[EinSoFZ]

Having an elite mentality and being a kind/considerate player are not mutually exclusive though guys. I don't really see FFXIV having a massive problem with this since the majority of content seems to be readily available to all players. Heck, in 1.0 the only true battle meant for so-called elites was maybe hard Nael (even then, it's just a fight). There was never really too much of a divide between elite and lesserplayers.

In FFXI it was an obvious thing. Here? I don't think it really exists to such a terrible degree.

[moriandrio]

In FFXI it was HNM what made the difference between hardcore and casuals and it was just the time factor. Alot of hardcore players been really friendly and helpfull they just been busy camping most of the time. Ofc there always been "elitists" around but you will have them everywhere just ignore them, they dont have fun cause they rarely have friends...

[Eekiki]

Where's Scarface Champion when you need him? I think he'd have the perfect response to this thread.

[Grim_Lion]

MMO's by nature, are not for casual gamers, and if you'r playing casually you should expect to miss some content and happily accept this. Please dont ruin gaming for the rest of us who have the time for MMO's. Please.

[SkyeWindbinder]

MMO's by nature, are not for casual gamers, and if you'r playing casually you should expect to miss some content and happily accept this. Please dont ruin gaming for the rest of us who have the time for MMO's. Please.

^^Pretty much this.

And to all the people who want to do things at their own slow pace or want to skip doing certain content yet don't like feeling left behind as far as gaining loot/achievements, Skyrim is that way. ----->

[Forgo]

its the best thing i can think of...

[Thunderz]

^^Pretty much this.

And to all the people who want to do things at their own slow pace or want to skip doing certain content yet don't like feeling left behind as far as gaining loot/achievements, Skyrim is that way. ----->

omg yes

why can't people understand this....