Losing faith in the community...

[VisionHolder]

I completely disagree... there's nothing more rewarding than having a social aspect as a part of your endgame experience. If you all hate each other what's the point? Sure you get things done but a lot of people are probably leaving because they aren't having fun while winning.

I'm not saying your FC should hate each other. My FC is a subset of my LS. All FC members belong to the LS, as well as others that are not in the FC. We get along fine. However, we're competing with 3-4 member FCs that won't merge and pull some of our best members away because they're real-life friends. These members still expect to run with us, but it undermines the functionality of the FC.

If you want the social aspect, use a LS. For content, use FCs. If you want both closely tied together, do what I described above.

Sometimes instead of blaming the community as a whole, you need to just step back, and look for a group who is more like-minded. That or adapt.

Adapting means playing the shout party and Duty Finder game. I'm doing it, and it's ruining the game for me. Meanwhile, one functional static in our FC is shooting ahead and leaving the rest of us behind. Progress comes down to luck, not skill like it does in organized teams.

As I said, it undermines the purpose of a FC and puts many people at a disadvantage for endgame content. What are we going to do when there's 24-man content? Shout parties? If you think it's hard getting 8 reliable people for 8-man content, just imagine 24-man. No thanks.