Rage quitters

[charlemagne]

I can understand people deciding to leave a group which they feel has little or no chance of completing the content. It is their game time after all and they can decline to spend it with whoever they wish. As long as it is done politely I have no real issue with it. The abysmal way in which some people go about it is unwelcome though. I can understand that they may have waited a long time to get into successive groups which prove to be underwhelming at best, and this can lead to a lot of frustration, but rudeness isn't the answer.

More annoying to me is people opening up the group to new arrivals once the instance is complete. Waiting for extended periods only to zone in to hear the victory music and have to re queue is extraordinarily frustrating.

[Omedon]

It is their game time after all and they can decline to spend it with whoever they wish.

Thank you for saying this. First thing I thought when I saw the topic. We are not entitled to each other, and time management sometimes means analysis and cutting losses, especially when repairs are climbing.

If the first wipe is decisive and no responses are forthcoming to a polite "so what are we doing differently" strategic discussion attempt, (the definition of insanity and all that...) that one wipe can be all it takes for one gauging the value of their own time, ESPECIALLY in the FFXIV trend of heavily weighting final boss encounters that take a half hour or so to reach.

I do think that "join group in progress" as an option was a mistake. I'd never touch this box, and its existence empowers someone bailing, for whatever reason, far too much over the other players.

Of course, my perspective could be skewed, as a tank, but that's my two cents.

[Jinrya-Geki]

This lalafel named Kenta or Kento Xx was nice enough to explain to do for my first time doing Garuda in 2.0. Now during the fight he starts to saying things like are me and my brother dual boxing.

We wipe the first time, but he said that would be ok for a test run. Second time I got back into the groove of fighting Garuda again. This time he dies, then the white mage and then me. My brother died because he didn't get behind a rock fast enough.

I managed to kill the plumes myself.

But when the tank died, the third restart the white mage left, and then Kent said we were dual boxing failures... there is a little more but I was blown away.

Maybe he's bipolar? I don't know.