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This isn't a “name-and-shame†thread by any means, but I would like to personally describe a serious problem in this game from my own experience.
I've been playing the game fairly often since I bought it and have reached Level 55 with relative ease at the cost of a good party experience, meaning I've had to wait longer periods of time to get the BAM quests finished as well as Instances. My problem with the game is with a certain portion of the community who do not show any respect to their fellow players and make up weak excuses as to why they cannot possibly demonstrate some form of common courtesy.
I joined a party around my level, finally able to finish an instance I had to wait a day or so just to find a good team. We each headed off to the next area afterward and began, with me as the party lead. One of my members began to invite people without even telling me they would be coming. While I am all for helping as many people as possible, I would like to be made aware instead of being sidestepped; I'm just asking to do my role in the group properly. They all then started rushing ahead of me and doing other things while I was trying to do quests and focus on a starting point, forcing me across the map in a helter-skelter fashion, stopping for nothing.
All the while, barely anybody is communicating with each other. There are no compliments, no strategies, no plans, and my words are falling on deaf ears even outside of battle. This rushing issue also happened to me yesterday with another group and I had been left out of the rolls for high quality loot, therefore I received nothing as a result. Coincidentally, it also happened again today, and one person was off on his own and he had obtained a few items but decided not to inform the rest of us, even though I had seen him collect it in the chat log.
Back to today, one person of the group repeatedly obtained many rare items while the rest of us got very little for our efforts, while I myself had gotten nothing at all. This person was playing a priest who neglected to buff us, healed only when they felt like it, and seemingly had no ambition in assisting the party in a satisfactory way. Just by the way they followed us it seemed like it was one person playing an alternate account so they might have double the chances in the rolls for loot. This all comes to a climax when a Gold Bow is found off an enemy and the priest, again I say they had received several Superior amounts of loot totaling at least 3 good items, is able to take it over the rest of us.
I have an Archer alt that I actively play and raised to 22 in only a day, and I asked for that bow for later. This person then told me they made all classes as alts and will be keeping it, even though I offered a sizable chunk of gold for it. I brought up how they had been receiving practically everything up to that point to the rest of my group, but my words were completely ignored and the subject was silently dropped. If anything is harming this game, it is most definitely the avarice of others. I'm sure there will be some among you who tell me I'm wrong and defend the actions of these people, but I'll tell you a story.
Back in the days of Diablo 1 & 2, the community at least had an admirable amount of decency. For those who are aware and remember the displeasure of “Ogden's Tavern," you might not think this was even possible. But, in Diablo 2 since that is the one I played the most online of, everybody who teamed up would always stop after a fight if a Rare item was found and describe its stats and even show it in the trade menu, giving it away if there was someone who could use it and no questions asked. It was a shred of human politesse that has been lost to time, and sadly the experience in TERA is marred a little more because of this.
Thank you for reading, and if you've had similar incidents, feel free to share them. All I can say is something I wish weren't true in the general case: You should covet your friends in online games like your own wife & child.
I've been playing the game fairly often since I bought it and have reached Level 55 with relative ease at the cost of a good party experience, meaning I've had to wait longer periods of time to get the BAM quests finished as well as Instances. My problem with the game is with a certain portion of the community who do not show any respect to their fellow players and make up weak excuses as to why they cannot possibly demonstrate some form of common courtesy.
I joined a party around my level, finally able to finish an instance I had to wait a day or so just to find a good team. We each headed off to the next area afterward and began, with me as the party lead. One of my members began to invite people without even telling me they would be coming. While I am all for helping as many people as possible, I would like to be made aware instead of being sidestepped; I'm just asking to do my role in the group properly. They all then started rushing ahead of me and doing other things while I was trying to do quests and focus on a starting point, forcing me across the map in a helter-skelter fashion, stopping for nothing.
All the while, barely anybody is communicating with each other. There are no compliments, no strategies, no plans, and my words are falling on deaf ears even outside of battle. This rushing issue also happened to me yesterday with another group and I had been left out of the rolls for high quality loot, therefore I received nothing as a result. Coincidentally, it also happened again today, and one person was off on his own and he had obtained a few items but decided not to inform the rest of us, even though I had seen him collect it in the chat log.
Back to today, one person of the group repeatedly obtained many rare items while the rest of us got very little for our efforts, while I myself had gotten nothing at all. This person was playing a priest who neglected to buff us, healed only when they felt like it, and seemingly had no ambition in assisting the party in a satisfactory way. Just by the way they followed us it seemed like it was one person playing an alternate account so they might have double the chances in the rolls for loot. This all comes to a climax when a Gold Bow is found off an enemy and the priest, again I say they had received several Superior amounts of loot totaling at least 3 good items, is able to take it over the rest of us.
I have an Archer alt that I actively play and raised to 22 in only a day, and I asked for that bow for later. This person then told me they made all classes as alts and will be keeping it, even though I offered a sizable chunk of gold for it. I brought up how they had been receiving practically everything up to that point to the rest of my group, but my words were completely ignored and the subject was silently dropped. If anything is harming this game, it is most definitely the avarice of others. I'm sure there will be some among you who tell me I'm wrong and defend the actions of these people, but I'll tell you a story.
Back in the days of Diablo 1 & 2, the community at least had an admirable amount of decency. For those who are aware and remember the displeasure of “Ogden's Tavern," you might not think this was even possible. But, in Diablo 2 since that is the one I played the most online of, everybody who teamed up would always stop after a fight if a Rare item was found and describe its stats and even show it in the trade menu, giving it away if there was someone who could use it and no questions asked. It was a shred of human politesse that has been lost to time, and sadly the experience in TERA is marred a little more because of this.
Thank you for reading, and if you've had similar incidents, feel free to share them. All I can say is something I wish weren't true in the general case: You should covet your friends in online games like your own wife & child.