What is wrong with this community?

[cooler989]

What community?

[Aldwin]

What's wrong is, people sit in que, sometimes for 20-30 minutes +, then they run into players who either, afk, aren't geared at all (they did fates for 30 levels and que in with level 5 gear), or they just don't have any experience playing their role.

Just 5 minutes ago, I que'd into stone vigil as whm. Tank pulls the first pull (if you're familiar with the place, the first pull has like, 5 mobs). I cast Cure 1 on him about 3 seconds after he pulls, he doesn't flash. 3 enemies come for me, takes about 45 seconds but then, I die.

Yep, I left, they can find someone else to help them.

[KPang]

Every MMO I play now I expect rude and toxic behavior. It's unfortunate that the internet as a medium also breeds that of behavior because of it's ability to protect the user's anonymity. I suppose it's just the way some folks take advantage.

But I don't mind the "community" so much because I just ignore the idiots. There are people that exist that don't lose themselves to the power of stupidity over a keyboard and I think that the silent majority of people are normal and the ones that act stupid instantly jade your perceptions because that's all you see. I've met plenty of decent people but they're usually random across groups.

Keep playing, there are plenty of good people around--just don't expect them to drop in your lap though. If you don't play with friends you can trust finding a core group of people takes effort. I wouldn't jump in a FC or linkshell and expect to become best friends overnight--it could happen but in general trust is built not given. Good luck.

[Riion]

In my experiences, specifically endgame, this community is vile. You better know each instance inside and out before your first run because if you dare make a mistake on someone else's 100th ak run there's going to be hell to pay. Don't expect any explanations; there will be none. This is the reason I will no longer continue playing the game.

[Vyserion]

I've been pugging CM every run since I hit 50. I haven't met a single group of ragers yet, save one tank in my first run because I wasn't skipping cutscenes (when no one asked me to, and half the group said it was fine if I did). Since then, most of my tanks and groups have been great.

[Raxion]

I've been pugging CM every run since I hit 50. I haven't met a single group of ragers yet, save one tank in my first run because I wasn't skipping cutscenes (when no one asked me to, and half the group said it was fine if I did). Since then, most of my tanks and groups have been great.

Count yourself as one of the luckiest DF users in the game, then.

[Vyserion]

Count yourself as one of the luckiest DF users in the game, then.

I will specify that this is CM, which is likely the easiest 50 dungeon in the game. Pugging Amdapor Keep is a 50/50 shot of breeze or nightmare. I will say that the most frustrating dungeon runs I've experienced stem from overconfident tanks trying to do speed runs they either don't know how to do or aren't geared for. Now that everyone's in farm-mentality, no one wants to explain the basics of fights to newcomers - these things happen in CM and AK because they're farmed so frequently. All i can suggest to most people is to speak up when you're new --- most teams won't mind and will explain what's going on. The worst thing anyone can do is not talk to their team and wait til things go wrong to speak up.

[Nihility]

it's just the internet community in america in general

people are just getting progressively more vile and nasty by the day.
back in the everquest and ffxi days you could screw up encounters that actually cost a lot of resources to start and people would be patient and teach you until you got it
even in the early days of WoW you could make groups of total strangers and get stuff done

nowadays you have stuff like the guy in tera that just powers to max level in a couple days then spends the next month in the lowest level zone he can kill people in one shotting and harassing people with the intention of trying to make them quit the game and can't even understand how that might be seen as poor behavior
or in ffxiv you need to know every encounter before you even try it for the first time or you get blacklisted by entire free companies for not doing it perfectly

every safe zone is littered with people in crafting pose because logging in is too much to ask for. Funny thing is if we didn't have such a huge population of people doing that we would have no queue instead of an extremely short queue

if you actually do fates with the intention of completing them you get blacklisted by the giant hordes of people trying to exploit the quick spawning mobs for fast exp

and everyone sings the "leave me alone it doesn't effect you" song but once you do something they don't like they completely 180 on that stance

[NZ_Player]

Thread: What is wrong with this community?

a: there is still free game time left.
once people start having to pay, things will pan out

[Aibo]

In my experiences, specifically endgame, this community is vile. You better know each instance inside and out before your first run because if you dare make a mistake on someone else's 100th ak run there's going to be hell to pay. Don't expect any explanations; there will be none. This is the reason I will no longer continue playing the game.

exactly this.
i've tried HM Titan today for the first time (got Garuda/DL and stuff, so people wont bash the gear), and got shit on by some DRG for a mistake of getting aggro from Titan and dying on the first ever try.
i quit and got repeating pms from that same DRG of how "fcking bad" i am and should "go back wow" [sic], which i've never played.
i did run Titan a few times after, did fine, never beat it of course, but first bitter experience kind of ruined this fight for me.

i got that i probably won't be gettin my relic, so spent the tomes on some extra DL accessories.
and will probably go fishing for the rest of the trial. SE doesn't want my money anyway.

while you can go on all day about "bad apples" and "subscriptions will weed them out". fact is fact, people just ruining other people's first experience.
and some people don't have "thicker skin" or FC/LS to fall back on.