You apparently read selectively…
you need to develop some thicker skin, i agree those were not nice comments, but u appeared to also be a very vocal and leaderish type “talked about how you were giving out commands and tactics as if you were their leader” that type of behavior can sometimes backfire into comments like that, although its not warranted it is what it is.
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So they just fake-dc? Uhu, great idea.
Well, so people must think twice whether to say tactics and try to win because this might backfire. This is called toxic. For the same reason people switch off chat and I am in many FB groups where people totally refuse to play in groups because of this.
“you need to develop some thicker skin” is never a solution.
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So do those that afk, leech and refuse to actually participate in the content. Let’s ask blizzard to ban them too. After all it’s just up there with grieving. Don’t you agree.?
Is the best solution in pug society
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Or not pug at all. People seem to prefer this variant. But if they do not pug and can’t find a nice guild, they stop playing. While pugging was made with an intent to keep player numbers, it seems it does the opposite.
Just a requirement when moving around online, since it’s impossible to prevent behaviour that you deem inappropriate.
Then how in Final Fantasy it seems to be possible?
The answer may lie in the word “seems”.
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the saying that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is very fitting for this suggestion.
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Go play a druid or a shaman. They can dispell poison.
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I have played it a bit. It has its fair share of elitism and toxicity and yes even the curses and diesels wished on your parents.
Because the main focus in FF14 is the casual player who wants to socialize in a virtual world and not the minmaxing overachiever whose epeen will shrivel if they do not have 2 extra raid difficulties and more than 15 keystone difficulties.
They go as far as to take action against people criticizing the performance of others
Different target audiences
Hmmm this makes me think…in its many expansions after TBC and woltk, WoW also aims more for the casual player, with LFG/LFR, many other activities besides raiding…Yet the community kinda became the opposite of socializing and seeing others as human beings. It rather sees others as numbers, ilvl and performance…
Could it be that M+ is the reason?
the effect of region wide lfg is the reason, there is no “reputation” so to speak to care for, however you can still ignore and never see them again.
One game was designed from the bottom up to crack down on the more unsavory tendencies of gamers.
WoW was already a much more competitive game since its inception.
But the fact that when the l33t people stop standing out by just having epix made them want to have even higher standards of comparing themselves to others did not help.
Both games have an LFD/LFR system.
But one of 2 games tries to make you please your group to earn “upvotes”. The other does not care unless you cross some extreme lines.
Oh those are very classy, not bad:P
Honestly, the community always has been a bit ‘odd’ in that area. Remember WotLK with GearScore? Gear-checks were not uncommon, not even in Vanilla. People were black-talked, people were sent to Booty Bay while needing to go to IF from SW. People ninja’d loot all the time or trash talked someone who wore a cloth item as leather wearing class. Stealing mats when “crafting” something. And you can keep going like this.
It may have become slightly more apparent, maybe even due to the declining player numbers over time. But in the base it always had a form of toxicity and odd competitiveness.
every competitive “esport” ish game favors toxic anti social behavior.
imagine this situation. i do a dungeon in +20 only for score, that is the only reason im there.
someone makes mistake and ruins the timer, why should i stay? i was only there to gain rating, i dont know a single person in the group it might aswell be ais. would it be okay for me to leave?
Fictional situation folks just asking the guy.
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This brings us to the connumdrum of where the blame lies
On the esport-ish system, or in the players who use it?
Personally I will always blame the system first for mixing people who want to do a sport with people who just want to get epix and or achievements