As much as I want to rail against those that kick a player without even assessing their worth, I can’t.

As a gamer with a Devastator main, I find this compelling, as I’ve been able to solo most of the Expeditions, but the stigma of my class not being able to pump out the same damage as the others seems to be widely accepted. Now, we hear stories of players getting kicked just for playing a class, like the Devastator. It was something the game was forcing me to do if I wanted to progress and earn rewards. The necessity to get rid of dead weight wasn’t something I was doing of my own volition. It wasn’t even about placing gold, it was the fact that, with him, we weren’t going to rank at all. 'The sad fact was, though, that he wasn’t pulling his weight. Lots of times in FFXIV and other games I have come across players who simply expect others to just carry them without making any effort. Groups decide not you as an individual and you should respect that and not expect them to help you out and waste their time. They can get another healer unless they say they will come and get me and help me get to them by going the long way. I have joined groups and the second I feel I am doing badly like falling down in jumping places and I'm unable to jump in certain areas I explain and leave. If they don't want to spend it helping you that is their prerogative and if they vote and kick you that is their right too. These are strangers and their time is precious. If you know you are an awful player why should you expect others to carry you. There are those who get upset when you tell them to do certain things and get angry. It is one thing to join and tell people you're quite clueless and bad and even in FFXIV we helped players who want to be helped. So if you're a bad player, you should make the game even harder on yourself by playing alone? Sorry, but that's idiotic at best. In FFIV I was a white mage and we occasionally get really bad players who won't even listen when we advice them so we vote and kick. I don't understand why people think they are so entitled to being carried by not pulling their weight. I would never dream of foisting myself on a group unless I am a good player or playing with friends who make allowances. If they didn't know that, then that tells me a lot about the developers. It may not have been PFC intention, but they should know that systems that they have in place will foster that kind of response. A game like Outriders though provides them a reason to be toxic and even encourages it by design. It's been my experience that a toxic player is a toxic player no matter the game.

They force you to choose to kick players or run the risk of wasting your time. The game mechanics are completely conducive to putting players against each other in Outriders where it should be cooperative. You don't get a chance to say 'hey can you switch your build' or 'sorry you just don't do enough damage' - and more times than not players will simply choose to kick you based on your class or even based on your gear. You can kick a player mid mission if they aren't killing fast enough, without warning. Worse, forcing players to choose between getting a reward or kicking a player isn't on the player, that's 100% the game mechanics.

If you don't know them and they randomly join their group, and if they aren't on the same system as you, you can't do shit.

First of all, you can't communicate with 'randoms' in this game.

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