French players really are the Brazilian players of EU servers

Good lord the dude in that last story...he listens to drama time but hears absolutely nothing 🤣 "how many wipes before I should leave?" About his guild group wiping for 30 minutes like face meet palm

The irony of Preach going 30 min late with Dramatime reading a story about a guy who couldn't be asked to give his group another 15 minutes is crisp.

I play on Moogle and yes, the French thing is definitely a thing. The actually good French players usually play with English language client and/or speak only English in random parties. You know you're not going to have a good time when you pop into a duty and chat is full of "slt". I speak a little bit of French so I can usually get the gist of the chat without google translate, but when things start going sideways it's hard trying to communicate with them and autotranslate only goes so far.

The bell impression was chefs kiss lol

I know the problem immediately on Tales of F. Always wipe twice. Never, never, never lecture on the first wipe, because you literally do not give the group the chance to learn their mistake if you IMMEDIATELY cut off their potential to learn. ...Or, uh. Or I overthought a language barrier.

Mike's incredulous stare at the camera is all that needs to be said... xD

"the french don't want to learn dutch" and that's how you know this is 100% real

That 2nd story is made all the more painful by the fact that 90% of pugs can clear all that shit no problem and this dude committed to joining a static just to fuck off. OP should have left 20 minutes in to wiping and left the guild. Excruciating on all sides.

I love this series man. Big ole greetings from texas

12:00 now I never got deep into FF14 beyond the MSQ... but i have played enough MonHun in the Eu to also know that for some reason, the French are just bad at games. I have personally witnessed the meme of the HR999 frenchie who is unaware of basic game mechanics.

I have a low tolerance for frustration, so you know what I do? I don't raid!

One the funniest drama times recently!

Oh yes, that underscored F was definitely synonymous with red Flag and and imminent Failure 1-2 years ago. Wiping once or twice was on the better side while I still did the low level roulettes. I'm not sure what changed, I didn't have bad french episodes in a while, pretty much since Shadowbringers. I guess after maxing out all jobs in ShB I kinda stopped doing all the low level roulettes, that probably helps. Edit: I remember this one run vividly with the wolf boss and his mechanic that has you hide behind ice pillars during his howl. I took us 10 wipes and alot of google translate to coach a french tank and healer combo through that...

1:23:10 I'm never going to be the same after hearing this. The damage is irreparable.

Hold it! Use it as motivation!

The french thing has been a thing for yeeeeeears in MonHun too!

What an epic drama time!

Ahh yisssssss, I love EVERYONE ELSE'S drama

Sounds like the Canadian French! Lol his hatred hits me in the feels

I don't play on EU but over here in the US I and many of my fellow guild members and friends that play with us all hate the Ragnaros server, because they are constantly bad (I believe they are central/South America, though I have been informed they are not from Mexico and are not from Brazil). At this point it's outside of just avoiding them. My guild gets mad because I do invite Ragnaros members, to give them a chance because they have a good score or gear. And every time they fail in the most spectacular fashion.

I'm currently doing mythic prog for the first time for real and hearing them being worried about the ninth pull is kinda funny ngl xD

7:55 says the guy who plays SEVERAL

I think the fact that Preach has no idea about his tip trip is the saddest thing I've seen.

The Salut thing reminds me of when you try to pug Mythic+ in dragon flight and see literally anyone in your team from Ragnaros or Quel’thalas That is an immediate abandon ship.

From the midwest U.S., tales of f had me crying 😂.

The only good French is fries

pretty sure i'd leave that GW II group to, but for me, i'd flat out tell them it's the total lack of communication, they seem to have. wiping on a boss for 30 minutes plus isn't that big a deal on its own. wiping on a boss for 30 minutes plus, with no one talking about whats is or might be killing us is another all together, and is 100% a deal breaker.

I love the Trafalger square scene in “An American Werewolf in London”. Lol Shakespeare was French. I forgot he said that too.

Its funny how those bigs MMORPGS have their personal "region locked for being a problem", In WoW the bad players were almost all from South America, Final Fantasy in EU is almost all French players. The second story I refuse to believe this isn't fake. KEKW

Oh sheeeesh a double bro fist! to what do I owe the pleasure!

Reconquista for Moogle

Tales of F OP is my spirit animal

15 minutes of raid vs. me being a sleepy puppy

It’s a hard life being a lurker

Love you Preach. Team USA

I've never raided and got triggered by that early raid quit. I've had people leave DnD early without mentioning before we start they need to leave early, it just feels like a waste.

I'm curious if he knows that Discord will also display what game you're playing and if he turned that off.

Just like a lot of fellow not-so-bad french players, I removed the F from my profile and NEVER SPEAK IN FRENCH because people just call it "THE BIG F"

I guarantee that the 29 going on 92 guy (which is probably an insult to 92 year olds tbh) will think Mike and chat are being toxic for not "supporting" him. What an absolute tool.

If you see "salut" or "huhu" you know youre in for a time one way or another. Over the years I've gotten a special kind of fear of german dark knights. Idk why but its always the germany drks........ All the sane/good german/french usually stick to English

I have a good friend who lives in Argentina. She speaks better English than most people here in the US lol. I have heard a lot of people say not to pug with people from the South American servers, but because she lives there too, it was especially funny hearing her swear by never pugging with people on those servers too.

I play wow and destiny 2 is that ok?

I find it interesting how WoW has such a different attitude towards add-ons compared to FFxiv

Not gonna lie, I'm not that old, but "the Discord" really confused me when I first used it and I have still only recently figured it out enough to be fairly comfortable with it.

I have 4 mins left. I just needed to say there is no chance in hell that this guy isn't a troll.... right?!?!?!?! this has to be a troll story :3

Yeah the "I'm sleepy" excuse... Idk what to say to that. As a GM you'd probably gkick this person on the spot... It will come off as an insult to some if you pull this shenanigan. Also, less cheese bro, eat less cheese. Maybe next time you wouldn't be so sleepy.

These stories were funny asnd very painful haha

Lemme put it this way: when you see Salut in FF is like seeing JAJAJA in wow. GTFO of that group asap lest you’re wiping all night.

Best drama time ever 🤣

Never saw a group use "GG" as a call to wipe.

Remember that time that the UK and US gave France their land back? Maybe it should have just been split up into English speaking colonies?

God, if people do mechanics wrong multiple times without even trying zo understand the fight I leave after the third time. I am not patient and i think that's totally fine. And I didn't believe this whole 'damn these french people' stuff for the longest time. But I am playing FFXIV for about 6 years by now and if the FC had to use pf for a raid or an ex trial and the random person was a french , every run they participated in, was doomed from the moment they joined the party. I just don't know what it is.

Is Preach even european if he doesn't know about the french thing?

That last story was painful to hear... This guy claims to feel old when he's only 29... fml

Reminds of "raid leaders" trying to be "combat callers" becoming exasperated when the group doesn't all know when the ability is going to happen. On one hand yes, we should all know and move accordingly. On the other hand, you not being able to play your toon and call out timers is another thing entirely.

sacre bleu!

It's so funny though, whenever I inspect a player who's playing absolutely horribly, they always have French language ticked in. So it absolutely checks out

The fact that paternity tests are illegal in France tells you everything you need to know about that "culture"

Sorry Mike and chat, after about 30m of listening to Drama Time, i became tired and couldn't be bothered with finishing the vid even though there's only 15m left. Am I in the wrong here? If I am, I might have to send in my own Drama Time because apparently I must be some sort of autistic.

Holy hell, that last story feels like every single LFR player in wow. This is what happens when you cater to solo players in a damn MMO. They literally ruin it for everyone else who wants to play an mmo, not a single player game.

The worst thing about this story is that this guy think he is dutch. Cmon everyone below the river is not dutch xD

I recently did the destiny 2 day 1 contest mode with a team for 24 hours straight to get the emblem. Hearing the 2nd story is weird af man( we did took a break here and there). Im not advocating to take no breaks but for fuck sake u gotta know what you sign up for man. Raids take time, things dont work out and if people cant accept that they shouldn't probably raid. Respect other people time.

12:05 What's wrong with the French?!? Mike you are walking on thin ice. I am this close to revoking your British citizenship.

Zero self awareness from that author

I will say on NA there isn’t any issues ive had with the French Canadians. I am not one of them, im from the USA just saying its a EU thing

Did i send in this "Tales of F" story and forget? i'm Belgian (Flemish), i play XIV on european server, i HATE how they dont have to learn dutch but we HAVE to learn french. I always shit on french players cause they're the worst. I sent this in and forgot, there cannot be two of me! no way.

ladies and gentemen, i present to you "The Basement Dweller". how else are you 29, a gamer and not heared of Discord before

last french story was fake - how could the french guy communicate in english? imusibru

Imagine doing this in a job. Just saying "Sorry, I'm tired and not fit to work anymore" and leaving 20 minutes early. Your team is getting all the rest of the work done down one person. And then you see a listing for your job on Indeed, and you wonder what you did wrong. LMAO. Bro, I spent 6 hours a week wiping to Mythic Raszageth for months. C'mon.

The number of people in the chat confused about "reaper" being mentioned in Chapter 1.....do they think the word was invented by FF? I don't get it, it was clear what the author meant when it was read out, but they still go on about being confused about "reaper" being mentioned, and how it could be a new player playing Ultima in EW. So bizarre.

Not all bad players come from France, some are from NA

Ability tooltips for DRG, maybe other classes too, but I know for sure DRG, had no positionals mentioned on them whatsoever at least up until Shadowbringers. So at least in part, French were terrible because they weren't given all the information.

Team murika chiming in. 100% onboard with him. lol j/k

Mike- "i didnt go to war with them, we gotta move on!" Tell that to anyone demanding reperations in the usa lol. They dont seem to be able to comprehend it either.

Omg I’m not even a raider and know raid etiquette that dude is such an entitled boomer

Damn, first guy really used the "I'm not racist, I have a French friend" card, uh?

To be fair to OP in the second story, 15 minutes is not a lot of time especially if they are doing Wing 4 with no raid buff. The group seemed kind of bad and frankly that 15 minutes could be better used

Also, second story: Not guilty. If you're not having fun, who gives a fuck "you signed on for two hours." It's a video game, not a job, grow up people.