(12-17-2014, 01:25 PM)Dogberry Wrote: I am absolutely sick of people railing against PUGS. Yeah, OK, you might get a crappy PUG every now and then, but people are so focused on the negative they forget the good PUGS.
Even if you get a bad one, just let it slide. They're dogs! The fact that they can even play video games is AMAZING!
Most of my PUGS have been awesome. I know my class and I know it well. I however, don't like to see other people who might not know theirs as well or are new, getting ragged on by some little shtako who plays the game like its a career. I don't like to watch people arguing when we're all supposed to be having fun and working together.
My vent isn't even so much about this game as it is about gaming in MMORPGs in todays world. I started out playing when things were still about meeting new people, adventuring together, acquiring that awesome piece of gear for whomever gets lucky on the team. Back when questing was like the anime Log Horizon, or one of my favorite youtube shows "The Guild".
Today, it's all about do this as fast as you can because we've got to do it a million times to get "X". Today it's about "must have studied youtube fight, and know X" before you even think about joining someones party finder.
I quit doing dungeons because I took a break for awhile, and when I came back new stuff was out and I really don't feel like being the new person on some well versed team and I also don't feel like putting a PF team together only to end up with some elitist shtako who only jumped in cause they couldn't find a quick enough party.
People will say "Join a company that is raiding." I have been playing since launch and I have been in a total of 2 companies. The company I helped to start back at Launch, which I am currently back in and have also inherited since the previous leader went inactive after staying on her alt. Then another company, which I won't name.Â
It was a raiding company, but it became apparent that the company leader came up with the rule that anyone with a 50 in "X" should get the loot if there was no one to benefit from it. So instead of everyone getting some random loot they could use later, he got the majority of all the loot since he had a 50 in everything. In the end, before I left, he had something like 14 pieces to everyone else 5-6. Â
Raiding wasn't why I left but it became a reason I wasn't eager to jump back into a company.Â
I had actually left to hop back into my old company and use the seals for boosts because coincidentally, that same company leader began forgetting to turn on XP boosts coincidentally after his last 50. I said I would be back afterwards but he took it as "I'm not coming back, here's the little gil you donated back." Which was then sent to a mutual friend who then gave it to me.
I do not like to deal in drama, I took my gil and just stayed where I was and made it a new home. I decided to work on my crafting and finish leveling all my jobs. Even if no one is very active, I don't have to deal with dramaz, or raid schedules, or loot hoarders or cliques. I do have a few friends who don't mind that I am not in their company and will let me tag along. I'm just sayin, things are no where near as cool as they used to be.
That's my vent.Â
PS: if there are typos that's well because my tummy is rumbling and I'm in a rush to go make some lunch.
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