I Hate Team Sports

With what (comparatively) little I have played of Final Fantasy XIV, I cannot deny that I find it enjoyable for the most part. The biggest issue I have with it is that:

I cannot stand doing dungeons with strangers.
Even in a low-stakes DPS role I can't shake my life long aversion for being forced to participate in team activities with people I hardly know. Whether it was sports or team quizzes, I have always hated it. I don't like relying on others or having them rely on me when winning is at stake. I suspect I would have a better time if I could co-op with a few friends, but only one of them shares a server with me and he's already ahead of me. After seeing the SLOG that is ARR I would not ask him to re-suffer such an experience. So I still dread any instances of group work on the horizon. I like the game and the story (kind of—so far), but I don't think this is the game for me at all! I am attached to my character though :^\

The other problem with the game is the SHEER amount of talking that I have to read. I swear I've spent hours long sessions simply reading irrelevant dialogue and walking back and forth. In fact so much so that I have developed contempt for Minfilia and the cursed Waking Sands. The most egregious part probably had to be the patches of gameplay between the end of ARR and the beginning of Heavensward. It drove me bonkers. Here's an artist's rendition of my WoL seeing how many more dialogue quests he had to go through.

Ca'irbre Gets Trolled

I'm totally gonna write more fanfiction though 💅