A community worse than WOW's?

[Alaray]

I have to ask, does this experience only occur in high level dungeons? (50)? As, so far, I've not come across this sort of behavior in any Brayflox and under dungeons (many of which I've run multiple times for aesthetic armor pieces). Most people I've run into have been extremely helpful: explaining mechanics to new players, helping tanks out and reassuring newer and less experienced tanks when they feel they're not doing as good of a job as they could be. It's completely different from my WoW experience, wherein (a low level dungeon), people would blow up at each other and toss out slurs, profanity and insults like no tomorrow. (So, I wouldn't say it's worse?)

While it's not a pleasant thing that this sort of behavior is occurring, the most I can think of is to report players for harrassment if they're acting insultingly towards others/yourself in the run, using slurs, instigating fights and antagonizing people. Just them going AFK, or initiating cutscenes, isn't enough to report the player, but blacklisting the individual might help? If it doesn't, why not try to find a friendly and helpful LS and FC to group and run with? While it doesn't fix the overlying issues, it will at least improve your experience within the game (and the community may take a shift after the free period expires, or a bit after the initial drop off in population -- a lot of communities for MMO's I've been a part of get huge initial flack, but they tend to pull themselves together after a few months).

It's sad to see this sort of behavior persist, but I fully intend to keep playing this game (need to re-learn it for my PS3/4, as my desktop just exploded) and I imagine that trying to be that nice, respectable and helpful player (regardless of the interaction within a dungeon run) could help the community as, to a degree, it might help negate the apparently rampant issue with people abusing game mechanics or acting immaturely.

Just my thoughts :I

[Faeon]

So I just turned 50 and queued up for Castrum Meridianum to progress my story and see what happens. The entire time, people would rudely rush through things, like start a boss when a cutscene was happening. I was left out of a boss that way, and was berated the entire time. People told me I could just go to the Inn and watch them there, but I want to see the reason for everything I'm doing through those cutscenes.

I see this allot, unfortunately its a story dungeon and a farm dungeon, and you will always get this problem. It is the same thing as people wanting geared and experienced people to run it with. The only real way to fix this is for the devs todo something about it, since people are people and there will always be the not so polite ones.

[BlossomRose]

RE: Alaray

Yeah it mostly happens in the three endgame dungeons. CM, Praetorium and AK.

Other dungeons, for the most part, are 99% free of jerks and idiots. Occasionally you'll run into a rude dude, like in any other game, but it didn't happen to me while leveling up.

[Bridgeburner]

So I just turned 50 and queued up for Castrum Meridianum to progress my story and see what happens. The entire time, people would rudely rush through things, like start a boss when a cutscene was happening. I was left out of a boss that way, and was berated the entire time. People told me I could just go to the Inn and watch them there, but I want to see the reason for everything I'm doing through those cutscenes.

The joke is that it's not worse than WoW's community - it is WoW's community, trying a new game.

This stuff should settle out eventually.

[Takeva]

Can't wait until I hit 50. These people are going to hate me because I don't care if they are in a rush, I wanna watch my cutscenes dammit. I'll only give them a and ask what they are waiting for because they are using their precious time crying about me watching cutscenes. I have no problem waiting 60+ more minutes for queues as I have other things to do while waiting. If I can't complete it today, I can complete tomorrow. I've been playing since beta, I'm in no type of rush.

Don't let stupid jerks effect how you play. They have no control over what you do. They wish they did, but they don't. There is no use arguing with these types of people. Best thing is to laugh at them for getting worked up and raging over a game dealing with people with all types of personalities. Same goes for you. Don't get worked up over idiots who don't act the way you want them to act. Not everyone is going or has to be nice to you.

[Noahlimits]

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Just be prepared for them to clear the entire dungeon while you watch the cutscenes. As long as you have no problem with that, I don't think anyone will care too much as the dungeon is ezmode.

[Gopher113]

Ya noticed that people are real a-holes in the end-game dungeons and HM primals complete 180 from leveling up where everybody is enjoying themselves and is friendly, willing to help.

Then after running HM ifrit 30+ times without a wep drop I started getting very angry at noobs and telling ppl off in chat. Probably a signal of a bigger frustration.

Seems like most ppl at endgame are pretty angry at the insane amount of grind and small amount of fun. Running the exact same thing for dozens upon dozens of hours to get upgrades probably make these people very impatient and angry.

[Reslin]

So I just turned 50 and queued up for Castrum Meridianum to progress my story and see what happens. The entire time, people would rudely rush through things, like start a boss when a cutscene was happening. I was left out of a boss that way, and was berated the entire time. People told me I could just go to the Inn and watch them there, but I want to see the reason for everything I'm doing through those cutscenes.

I can understand wanting to quickly do the instance because one's done it X number of times, but if using the Duty Finder, one should realize that there are people in there who are doing it for the first time and will want to watch the cutscenes. If you're so hardcore and over it all, why not join a FC and run it with them?

Worse than WoW? I'd say it's the same behavior. In WoW people require you to be above the content you're trying to gear up for. It's stupid but the same thing goes on there as here.

[Medieval]

Eh, the forums here are full of whiners and witch hunters. Reddit is full of "justice seekers" and more witch hunters and In game is full of retards, asshats and kids. Pick your poison.

[Pathios]

My first run I got locked out of a boss, but they were all nice. They just wanted a speed run and I don't mind being carried for a run atm.