What's wrong with FFXIV's player quality?

[zsuper]

Is anyone else noticing that an overwhelming number of players are really bad?

We can't even replace people for BC. Three of our group members stopped playing because they couldn't justify paying a sub for 40 minutes of weekly content, and we ended up just calling it until 2.2 because there were no suitably skilled players to recruit.
Even the #2 and #3 raid groups on our world had no good players. They downed Twintania a month+ late by overgearing it and throwing themselves at it for hours and hours.
The people who parse high often die to tunnel vision, and the rest parse terribly and still randomly die (god knows why, they obviously aren't paying attention to their abilities).

Friends I used to play WoW with on other worlds are reporting the same thing; skill just seems horribly low across the board, outside of a few top groups.

I don't get what's up with this. I don't recall playing any other MMO where the skill deficiency was this high, especially considering how simple all of the mechanics and rotations in the game are right now.

[Ksandra]

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