I have some opinions on the selective GM activity on FFXIV. They always seem ready to slam someone in the Gaol for anything remotely suggestive in their Adventurer Plate, but they are zzzzz when it comes to rampant issues like stalking, RMT, and botting.
I would like to see WoW have the same responsiveness to tickets, though. Even if half the time SE spits in my face every time I send one in, it at least comes within the hour.
No. It was LFR. One person was not costing them the attempt. For an LFR to wipe, they had way bigger problems than one new person. It’s much more important for the newbie to be assured that it wasn’t all their fault. They might not have been helping, but they did not single-handedly cost the group the attempt.
Anyone who wants to enforce who is in their LFR group needs to get a grip and stop doing LFR and pug normal instead. That’s not what LFR is for.
No they aren’t. That’s some BS. lol
my account got logged onto by a botter and within 10 minutes the botter got banned. my FC was following them. got my account back the next day
That’s the kind of responsiveness I like.
I’m more speaking of how Eureka is currently swarmed with bunny fate bots, and SE neither cares or notices that this directly impacts players trying to participate. They’re also rampant on the MB, and it was a disaster during the Ishgard Restoration ladder climb.
On the flipside, to use my other example, if you are reporting someone for stalking? Good luck. You can remove someone from your friends list, but that doesn’t remove you from theirs. They will still have full access to your currents, and even sending you mail. We had someone with an axe to grind religiously antagonize our FC, and harass new members.
Went on for months and the only way it resolved is that they found a new “abuser” who wronged them.
You can read my testimony above. You can go into Eureka right now. Their GMs are split between socials and a special task force (which is notoriously small) for botting and rmt.
You can actually feel the difference between the call to action between automated Gaol sentences and having to actually moderate. Even reports with whisper logs from multiple people saying said person was telling random strangers our members were [things not in accordance with forum CoC] got anything.
ETA: Sorry for going off track. This has been on my mind with Blizzards new move to enforce their TOS. Feeling mixed on it.
Not a bad idea. Been running with my friend in discord, so I don’t really type anything in group.
“Aggressively friendly.” I like that.
It dawned on me when I was tanking for this disc priest back in WoD. He had such a terrible time keeping atonement up, and I was going to lay into him. Then he started saying he was sorry, trying his best to learn this new spec, and thanked me for my patience.
It floored me, and I instantly pulled back. I think about that guy a lot, and try to carry that with me.
Been trying not to do that.
One new (old) thing a day. I’ve been sticking to that.
But the NPCs in Shadowlands all have extensive backstories as to who they are, why they’re there, and why they’re important.
A new character just thinks Bolvar is a demon or has cool tatts.
They start all newcomers in BfA so they won’t be lost in the current content, but that’s 15 years of development they don’t know.
And that’s just LORE.
The new mechanics they add each expansion, that we all learned and added to our muscle memory, that were extensions of mechanics from before…
If you’re just coming to this game now, it isn’t easy.
Yeah. A lot.
There’s some good lore videos out there on youtube if they are really interested in learning it.
The mechanics are definitely a lot to take in and I can only imagine how they feel.
Not the worst idea, especially since WoW isn’t Blizz’s highest income game anymore.
I doubt they will, though. Besides, microtransactions would fill the game. Loot boxes. Buy these cosmetics for cash. There’s already enough of that.
100%
Thanks for stating the obvious, seems some people need to see it.
Disc used to be so easy… Bubble and snooze, bubble and snooze.
LOL. I prefer holy, but you couldn’t get a group in hellfire citadel unless you could cast barrier, so I gave it a try. Nowadays, it’s a lot more micro-managed. Not my cup of tea.
But yeah, we can all take a breath and remember other people might be learning. Sonder.
This.
When my friend started, I created a new character to go along.
They don’t tell you how to whisper, add a friend, even talk in the different channels (party, say, instance, etc).
People might not even know HOW to ask for help. They could go months not knowing how to add that friendly person to their friend list.
They don’t know what they don’t know, and have no way to ask.
I remember being a newb. It w as an interesting experience. Everything so new and interesting and awesome.
blizzard need to implement what FFX has, for new players when they join groups everybody gets a XP buff and they have a sign on there profile/icon to say they are new.
If people got more xp for playing with new players i think people would be less toxic if the run takes long or if tons of mistakes are made. That system works in FFX
I agree the game should teach you more about your spec. Personally, I think training scenarios accessed via trainers would help enormously. The temple you currently have access to doesn’t teach you anything.
That happened to me the last time I tried LFR. I was on a fairly undergeared toon and had never done the particular fight before. I’d read up on the raid journal to check and see what I should be looking out for and made the mistake of saying in a pretty social way that it was my first time there and Id appreciate any tips. So after the first wipe, when I was obviously not top of the dps charts (not bottom either I might say) one player started insisting I be kicked. After about three times calling out to kick me I was finally removed from the group.
I haven’t participated in LFR since. While I have never called for its removal it seems to have become far more of a swamp for bottom feeders in the game and until I can decide its worth trying again, Im just not sure its worth the angst. So I appreciate what happened to your friends, OP, and sadly its apparently becoming not all that unusual.
Valid statement my friend!
Not a bad idea, but max level people wouldn’t help. Maybe added gold would work at max level.
Oddly, I found torghast to be educational. You would get odd abilities that would make you use everything in your toolkit, even stuff you don’t usually do.