I Hate Team Sports

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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 💅

Comments

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I haven't played much of Destiny, but I have played Dragon Age Inquisition multiplayer and it's easier to win by yourself in that kind of gameplay (like Call of Duty/Rainbow Six too, it's fine to be the best solo even if the team ends up losing). In FFXIV if an important role dies, everyone wipes, and it can get frustrating fast. Certainly, having to know all the boss mechanics adds another layer of stress to some of the fights in FFXIV as well. Some vets have a problem rushing in headlong without even checking if anyone is going in blind! I think I heard in Destiny there are some players who rush like that, but I've also heard how much people actually try to help newbies in some fights in that game. In FFXIV it often seems that people just want to "do their daily dungeon duties" and be done with it and it can ruin the experience for new players that they get paired with. When I first started that happened to me a lot. The tank would just run quickly through the whole dungeon leaving everyone behind. I ended up starting to level a tank role myself just so I could actually experience the dungeon (even though I much prefer my Lancer DPS class for the aesthetics). *sigh* Well, I can always watch a Let's Play if I want the rest of the story without the hassle 😔 I don't play often enough anyway.

Destiny seems fun, I enjoy the lore I happen to hear about it. I don't think I could get into actually playing it though, it seems like so much has happened already!

Thanks! I couldn't get the image out of my head so I had to draw it 😂