I wish we had FF14 blacklist.
If you blacklist 1 charcter It’s entire account will get added and you wont be able to even see their charcters in game.
If some how you get in a party with them they will appear “nameleass” charcter and you know they are X idividual that you don’t want to play with.
So during Dragonflight Season 3 me and 2 of my guildies join a premade of 2 people from Blackmoore for a key. Nothing too extreme, something in the low 10s (equivalent to today’s +2 or +3 I guess). First run goes very well, so we do 2 more keys. Very smooth runs all of them, keys easily timed, banter in the chat, quite fun times.
During the 3rd run one of the 2 people from Blackmoore starts being too friendly to me out of nowhere. At the end of the run he even adds me as a friend. I think “Well ok, now I have more friends to group up with for stuff”.
Next day, within the first few seconds of logging on, I get a message “Hey, my new favourite person in WoW has logged in :D. How are you darling?”. At this point I started worrying that he somehow thinks I’m a woman. So in order to clear any misunderstanding before something wrong happens, I reply something along the lines of “Yeah, I just finished working on something in the toolshed”. No reply for a few minutes. After a bit I receive: “Just to be clear, you are a woman, right? Because your friends yesterday referred to you as she”. I reply “No, I’m a man, they probably referred to my character who is female”. And then I get a nasty reply with some curse words and before I get to reply he had already put me on ignore.
Turns out that playing a female character of one of the more attractive in-game races and being a healer somehow makes some people think you’re a woman.
As a woman, getting snarky and sexist comments in games, sadly, is a very common and normal thing. Ask any other woman, they’ll tell you the same thing. It’s just something we learn to live with. Especially if you do good, it hurts their manhood to know that a girl is better than them at something ig
Trust me if i am in your group, its always my fault, i hate when people blame each other, just blame me and be done with it, its like you aren’t even allowed to make mistakes, and then people get mad at each other like oh my god grow up already, its just a game.
Impossible to make friends in this game, i am doomed to become even more depressed.