Online Bullying - A Dev request for a response and discussion

[M4Fade]

Not sure if this has been said yet since I only read the first couple pages but.. I keep seeing people in here mentioning how these bully's are "kids" or "children". The sad reality is that a VERY large chunk of them are 20+ years old. Adults.

Anyways, it really doesn't make a difference. Just wanted to point it out.

[Riviere]

Not sure if this has been said yet since I only read the first couple pages but.. I keep seeing people in here mentioning how these bully's are "kids" or "children". The sad reality is that a VERY large chunk of them are 20+ years old. Adults.

Anyways, it really doesn't make a difference. Just wanted to point it out.

That's the saddest part. It's no surprise to meet immature kids, they have a lot of growing up to do, they're young and a long road ahead of them. But these guys are adults, many of them with families of their own and still behave like little immature pricks.

[Howitzer]

I will never hesitate to tell someone they flat-out suck. I'll be mean about it, too, if it gets my point across. However, what we see in the OP's thread is so over-the-top and it's just far beyond what's considered acceptable.

[geetarkev]

Online words from strangers are scary. Please give me my bottle.

[Kallera]

Online words from strangers are scary. Please give me my bottle.

Abusive behavior being held accountable by reporting isn't immaturity. Informing SE of harrassment helps the community both in the server and out through the duty finder.

[Somi]

Please just enjoy playing despite bad personalities. Make friends, blacklist people who offend you. Also consider that things said in chat have no tone and you may misunderstand it occasionally.

I once had someone yell at me in this way:
me: "Click on the fire" (after fire ele boss, when noone joined me at the next stage)
some troubled team mate: "Who do you think you are telling me what to do!"

I was speechless... but I hope it was a joke...

[Aldora]

Every where where you have to involve yourself with a living being, be it a person you work with, you play with, come across on the street, or even your/their pets. There will always be nice people, but also rude people. That is something we cannot change. How ever, that doesn't make it OK to rage/lash out to someone, just because they did something wrong.

Usually people tend to react based on their emotional state at that time. Who knows, you might be the 10th person (s)he's come across which makes the same frustrating mistake. You never know. Next to that, being anonymous online, people tend to say the first thing what's on their mind, even if its rude.

At some cases, opinions/reactions that were meant to be constructive, can still be interpreted as offensive by others.

The only we as players can do, is respect others, help them out when needed and most of all, stay calm and composed. Do not let our emotions do the talking. (^_^ )

[Vydos]

I'll have to say that I've seen very little bashing, swearing, bullying during all of my duty finder runs.
However the first time I saw it, was during Ifrit(Hard). And surprisingly it resembled a bit like the above.

I've noticed that this kind of behaviour suddenly appears during the level 50 instances/boss fights/primal battles.
But even then, it doesn't happen that badly. I just ignore it, knowing that's the 10% of the player base who acts like that on failures.

Funny enough, I was a PLD tank who had to stun Ifrit's eruptions as well for the first time. I'm usually a very good player. But it was past midnight that day and I was feeling drowzy. Which was a bad idea to do an Ifrit run. Little to say that I stunned the plumes a lot of times by accident, due to reacting a bit too fast. People need to understand however that high pressure/ ingame latency / inexperience can lead to people stunning the plumes. The interval to stun an eruption is sometimes very short due to latency issues.

It's sometimes stressful when you stun Ifrit only to see that eruption bar almost fill itself completely before seeing the stun effect apply.
That said, for those pld tanks on stun duty. Ifrit has a fixed pattern of when he uses eruption. If you're having troubles reacting on time, learn the pattern instead.

I don't have that issue anymore though. And I can even tank and stun his eruptions at the same time.

[TonyUK]

Yoshi will listen to all moaners eventually so please "look forward to it"

[Neri]

Is the person in question is DD/DPS (hell, I'll just call both to please both party)? Probably because that person waited a loooooong time until get a shot and failed and then back to wait again. But still doesn't excuse the horrible manners.