Seems there's a lot of players with "main protagonist syndrome" dictating who does or doesn't get to participate in Duty Finder content with premades and "slow-solo" tanks, jobs rendered essential meta in one mode, or an entire role made questionably relevant in the rest.
Sure, a lot of that can be pinned on Square-Enix botching a lot of things when it comes to how jobs, roles, and modes are handled, but it was ultimately players that ran with it, right into the ground even, because at some point a lot of people just... stopped caring about everyone else they were queued with, up to and including any concerns about those same issues.
There's a certain irony for example, in how some of the people supporting the Healer Strike would then turn around in the same breath and argue at length about how Dark Knight Meta was "perfectly fine" in Frontlines because I guess lopsided job balance is cool when it's personally beneficial, but a travesty requiring immediate attention when it's a personal detriment. (And vice versa with some of those complaining about DRK stacks being among the "faster queues for me then!" crowd in response to the strike.)
I can't really offer a solution to any of it, as I can't dictate player behavior anymore than developer decisions, and so many of these issues have been deemed the "norm" for years now that it feels like wishing in one hand and spitting in the other when asking about possible change on SE's end, and we all know which one fills up first.
Eventually though, it feels like we started spitting at each other, in-game and out of it given some of our conduct (mine included) on the forums or other social media options, and now it just seems like perpetual bitterness and frustration all around and we sort of became our own worst enemy when it comes to content or conversation.
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Sure, a lot of that can be pinned on Square-Enix botching a lot of things when it comes to how jobs, roles, and modes are handled, but it was ultimately players that ran with it, right into the ground even, because at some point a lot of people just... stopped caring about everyone else they were queued with, up to and including any concerns about those same issues.
There's a certain irony for example, in how some of the people supporting the Healer Strike would then turn around in the same breath and argue at length about how Dark Knight Meta was "perfectly fine" in Frontlines because I guess lopsided job balance is cool when it's personally beneficial, but a travesty requiring immediate attention when it's a personal detriment. (And vice versa with some of those complaining about DRK stacks being among the "faster queues for me then!" crowd in response to the strike.)
I can't really offer a solution to any of it, as I can't dictate player behavior anymore than developer decisions, and so many of these issues have been deemed the "norm" for years now that it feels like wishing in one hand and spitting in the other when asking about possible change on SE's end, and we all know which one fills up first.
Eventually though, it feels like we started spitting at each other, in-game and out of it given some of our conduct (mine included) on the forums or other social media options, and now it just seems like perpetual bitterness and frustration all around and we sort of became our own worst enemy when it comes to content or conversation.
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