Carbuncle, Welcome Gilgamesh.

I saw a similar thread like this one for a server merge, so I figured I'd do the same.

Carbuncle, please welcome Gilgamesh server! We are a fairly populated server full of mostly inconsiderate, immature, disrespectful, rude, unfriendly, unhelpful, ungrateful, non-appreciative, selfish, self-centered assholes!! If you are any sort of a competitive player, you are welcomed with a whole bunch of unwelcoming people :D! I'm mainly posting this thread from experience in abyssea, but this is pretty universal for anything on our server.

For example(s):
1. People love to watch you die and laugh and smirk as they take your claim. You are pretty much SOL to find anyone on our server willing to help you out if they are out-claimed, or just out of sheer willingness to help you period. If you plan on doing much NM camping, be sure you can take it down or we will be sure to wait until you die so we can steal it! Gilgamesh offers many, many linkshells, but very few friendly ones. Most of them interrupt other linkshells in progress of completing things, completely disregarding 'who was there first.' Again, this goes in line in that you'll most likely never find any groups waiting for you willing to help out; they'll just interrupt your pops and act like you're not there, or wait until you die and take your claim (repetitive?).

2. Leveling outside of abyssea is pretty safe, probably since no one does it anyways anymore. Leveling in abyssea is rough, though. The 'doll camp' in altepa is always over-populated with fail pick up groups that rush in front of what you are about to claim, only to claim it themselves and most likely die in the process if they aren't with their party. It's pretty amusing, but mostly annoying as f**k. Since this is one of the only places I level with a few friends, I can't speak on behalf of other abyssea leveling places, but I'm fairly certain they are pretty similar to altepa.

3. If you're the kind of person that takes things slowly and one step at a time, we don't offer too much to help, unless you luckily find a group that doesn't need what you want (read on...). You'll see many seal NM shouts, often times for what you don't need, however. That's probably because you're leveling a job that everyone else is leveling :/ Above all, I must say that WHEN and IF you join a pick up group, be sure you're getting what you came for. We have way too many people who love to invite strangers for 'help,' only to kick them from parties when things drop that they could use. This is mainly for +2 items, but I s'pose would go along with seals and other equips.

4. If you join a linkshell, and it sucks early, leave it early...90% of our linkshells (read above) are only active to get the administrators their shit (the shell leader/sack holders). You'll work your ass off to get other people what they want, and they will be everything but grateful. Also, when you ask for help on something big or small, you'll seldom receive it.

5. Often times when people get bored they sit in PJ (port jeuno) waiting for something to do, that's probably universal for all servers I'd assume. Our server, however, loves to get in verbal fights, in shouts, in the most populated of areas. I don't sit in PJ all day, but if I did I'd say you'd see roughly 5-10 short/long duration fights through shouts a day, and I'm warning you now, if you see one, don't join in because you're only asking for trouble and hateful /tell messages, lol. We do that, apparently.

Well I don't know what else to write but really I'm just getting annoyed of typing and thinking about how uncool we are and how much you will quickly hate us all, lol.

To all Gilgamesh fellows who I haven't met yet, to all Carbuncle fellows that I'm looking forward to meet, and to all those Gilgamesh fellows who I've met and are looking for a nice, warm and welcoming home, please send a /tell in game if you're the opposite of most/all of those adjectives mentioned earlier. I'm a part of one of the very few helpful and extremely friendly and open linkshells on our server, both social and event style. We are a bunch of crazy people who look at this game as exactly that, a game. We'll get things done, but we love to have fun before we even remotely consider this game a job, even though it is at times. If you're looking to work non-stop and are looking for help only to abandon the group later (you assholes who have done that, /disgust) then hold your fucking breath since I/we have little patience for those select few, Mizzou. Go find a different linkshell full of those just like you. We'd love to rally up the few remaining friendly people who have put up with bullshit as long as everyone else has, and hope that the stress in this game will be outweighed by the welcoming and friendly people we have to offer in our linkshell.

Finally, just lemme say there is no need to respond, but feel free. This is just a message to Carbuncle mates and some Gilgamesh peeps. If you do respond with trolling then I'm sorry for you for reading this and wasting your time trying to feel superior. I'm pretty sure most of the ffxiah community knows who those people are, however. Also, anyone in Gilgamesh who was offended by this, I'm truly sorry. Being from a small linkshell full of who I would consider my very close friends, I have little tolerance for blatant rudeness or p.o.s. assholes in general.

I'm hoping this thread will speak on behalf of ALLLLLLL of you who have witnessed downright nonsense and disrespect from other players and who are just nervous to say or do anything about it. Just know there are people out there who go through the same shit as you, so if we come together and revive ffxi to being a friendly place, then I think we'd all have a better time =]

That is all, thanks for reading my novel ~

Burke, gilgamesh