Has anybody actually made friends through FFXIV?

I had friends before.
I asked them to join me so we could play FFXIV together.
But they were so bad...
So I lost those friends.
Now I'm friendless. Thanks a lot FFXIV.
Can I have a friendship refund please?

Yes, and it has been my preferred way of making friends. As an avid gamer and mmo player, this allows me to communicate with people who already have similar interests with me, like FFXIV. I do have friends outside the game, but our interests are nowhere close to lining up. It makes conversations with them very difficult most of the time while feeling awkward and forced. I don't have to feel that way with most of the people I interact with here because we all already have a common ground to build on here.

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I'm glad I was able to get some very nice perspectives on the topic.

I don't have any friends (both in game & in real life), just associates that I have varying degrees of trust.

People are people, no matter how or where you meet them. If you're finding it hard to make friends, it's probably because you're doing something to keep people away. People are as close as you decide to keep them, in this world or any other.

My closest friends I have made through XIV, ones that I spend my time in and out of the game almost on a daily with. What surprises me sometimes, is I never expected things to be that way at all, but they were there for me in some of my darkest times and for that I will always appreciate them.

I tend to meet and make lots of friends, a lot of them I can call more than just acquaintances but... since moving games or just real life happens, in the long run people kind of dissapear.

I find a lot of friendships to be strictly for the current game being played and due to the server I play on, meeting people from my own region never happens
That being said I do have really nice friends at the moment and I do cherish them ^^

I did for a certain fc. But their friends didnt like me and drama occured cuse "i created it" and got kicked from the fc.
Sooooooo yeh

No. I'm not even trying to. I'm not into raids so duty finder works just fine for the stuff I wand to do. I'm not even member in an fc because I can do everything myself or using duty finder.

I just saw this today.

I have made alot of long lasting friendships, not just through FFXIV but other games as well. I have people I've known for 7+ years and are the best of friends. Even met a couple irl!

My current FC has become my family.

So it's definitely possible to do esp if you spend alot of time together online. But I can understand wanting to keep distance as well :3

Trying to! :D

Yes! I've lost touch with some since they stopped playing, ones that I'd chat with over PS4 a lot which is only done when I get to know someone and can call them a friend.

One, though, has become one of my best friends. We talk and play together everyday, and we have visited each other multiple times now IRL. They are coming to visit us again in July, and we are even going to our friend's sister's wedding. We're family now :o

I used to, back when I was on Behemoth.
My old FC, and a few dudes I constantly bumped into during primal ex pugs. Extremely cool dudes, the lot.
Then I transferred to aether because my IRL best friend had other friends there, and I was out numbered 1 to 5 transfers.
I regret that. Aether is extremely toxic, over dramatic, basically highschool.
I just left my 8th fc on cactuar and Im pretty much playing solo.
Wish I could transfer back to behe, but I just got a house, and im reluctant to lose my 18 mill+ investment on that lol.

One of my best friends I met on WoW back in like 2008? We make it a point to meet up (only live ~2.5 hours away) several times a year and just hang out and have a gaming weekend IRL. We play less games online than we used to as I'm on break from WoW and they won't touch FF14 or any other MMO.

I'm heading up to see them in CT 2 weeks from now actually.

i flew 12 time zones to attend the wedding of someone i met through XIV, so yea.

half of my social circle is from XI/XIV, the other half are from HS/college (none of them play MMOs).

Oops! I have no idea how this post got here. :X

You're in the wrong topic...

I've met a lot of awful people in FF that taught me some hard life lessons, but I also met some really great people that made it more than worth it.

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Has anybody created any actual friendships through FFXIV? Or...you know what, let's expand this and and say through MMOs, too, since community is a big thing within this genre. I am not going to lie, friendship through MMOs is a foreign concept to me, so I tend to keep everyone at a safe distance. What are your personal experiences in regards to friendship through FFXIV and MMOs as a whole? Is it possible? Odd? Natural?

Lemme know.

(also, I don't know why my icon is blank. It just is.)

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More than a friend - I met my wife in an MMO (SWG). And yes, I've made friends in other MMOs...and in this one as well.

Not yet, as I'm still a relatively new player in FFXIV, but I'm sure they'll come eventually.

Yes! I've met some really awesome people in this game; much more than I have in any other MMO, which is part of the reason I enjoy it. As much as I love ESO, I feel like it fosters an anti-social way of playing, whereas FFXIV does the opposite. Meeting new friends in dungeons, and just in the open world is great :D.

I've made pretty good friends with people in FFXIV and hopefully we can arrange another meetup soon.

I've made some of my closest friends in 14

Not in this game (I get on with F.C. people) but once when I started a new job several of the guys were playing or had stopped playing WoW. We decided to all join one realm and made a little raid team but we were a few players short.

3 of those people who filled the spots ended up coming from Australia and USA to hang out with us irl :) One of them actually married one of the work guys.

Came to the game with a Friend, then we joined a Guild full of Dicks and People who never heard about being Friendly and Loyal, and i got Kicked because their Leader is a D Bag... and my Friend stayed. SO..
Met a couple cool people and alot idiots. but no new Friends yet.

I've made several friends, I actually met my roommate through FFXIV.

I have made a few friends that I've grown close to, in this game particularly. But most MMO's I tend to stick to people I already know. But all my friends I generally stick with stopped playing this game, so I had to branch out to find people. While it wasn't easy, I found a few people I enjoy playing the game with. :3

As well as, just talking to them on discord frequently.

I dont consider acquaintances friends. People add me to their friend list and never talk to me again and my friends are all people I know from a forum that's still alive. But yeah people that I just see in town and stuff? I wouldnt call them friends since they arent trying to be friends anyway. They probably added me cause I was doing savage or ex primals, tbh. Once they get the clear it's like oh it was nice knowing you, lol.

Totally! I met my best friend through XIV. His account was originally owned by his sister, whom me and her were kinda close for the time being, she trained me how to play Ninja. :P Then he took the account back and we've been friends ever since, always afking and just being dumb together. Hes pretty awesome

I met my ex via XIV, my current boyfriend via XIV, and a majority of my friends through XIV as well. We enjoy meeting up at Fanfest.

My husband and I met in SWG. It took six years for me to get brave enough to meet him in person, but he moved from the US to Canada two years after that, and we’ve been happily married since 2010. Both of us play FFXIV, although wee don’t spend as much time gaming as we used to ( likely a good thing).