No one uses LSs, Fellowships or even the Party Finder these days... Would hope for many active communities using said tools routinely, but seems everyone just wants to use Discord. Why no love for ingame tools?
Also, Party Finder should be world wide in my opinion. As well as Duty Finder.
PS: lastly, they should really add some Weekly Duty Roulettes with good rewards exclusively for extremes and another just for savages. About time. Some of the few fun and challenging contents in game, needs way for attention and engagement than it actually has.
Very innactive in game community (in terms of tool usage)
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09-22-2021, 03:54 PMFabbroVery innactive in game community (in terms of tool usage)
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09-22-2021, 03:57 PMMilkieTeaI’m in several active linkshells, specifically CWLS, one fellowship so far, and very regularly use party finder for higher end content such as extremes. People use discord ON TOP of this, for ease of access and being able to voice chat and share memes. These tools are still being used, you might not be looking in the right places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabbro
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09-22-2021, 04:20 PMFabbroWell, where then should I ask for active good Linkshells and Fellowships?Quote:
Originally Posted by MilkieTea
I am in some Fellowships and all of them are quite inactive, for example.
Also, I use party finder regularly and while it's ok, it's not exactly BOOMING as I would hope (specially the way servers are always full), I would really hope to see each and every extreme and savage with at least two to five parties being formed in minutes everyday (synced) judging by the number of players the game has... yet 99% doesn't even seem to know it exists at all and actual Party Finder numbers are less than ~10% what I mentioned my expectations would be. -
09-22-2021, 04:57 PMVelKallorUm...the Party Finder is full of entries, I use it every day. Linkshells are busy and active.Quote:
No one uses LSs, Fellowships or even the Party Finder these days..
So..."no one"?
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09-22-2021, 05:09 PMMilkieTeaNot a lot of people do extremes and savages. Fellowships are not chat rooms, they're essentially collections where you can FIND likeminded people to form a CWLS with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabbro
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09-22-2021, 05:16 PMDrWho2010
If you're in inactive linkshells you need to ask yourself why you're in there? what was the purpose of said linkshell? was it for friends or just a bunch of random people? does it have a specific purpose like for hunts? Are the people in those linkshells even logging in to the game lately? You do know that even though the game is more "popular" right now, that we're still technically in a pre-expac lull at the moment?
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09-22-2021, 05:18 PMSaraideMost people who want to do extreme and savage are done with it at this point. They got the BiS sets, the glam and the mounts they wanted. We are at the end of an expansion and it'll take until after EW releases for it to pick up again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabbro
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09-22-2021, 05:21 PMkiagenwa
I initiated PF when I was running Bahamut and ppl joined in minutes. We wait a few more minutes before launch.
So I think unless the PF was for a full party they usually kick off pretty fast. -
09-22-2021, 05:47 PMCaptainLagbeard
The Linkshells are chatrooms, they're kind of a relic of the olden times, doesn't mean they're no longer used, but as players nowadays have much better unofficial alternatives to them they're not as prominent. The main ones you hear about nowadays are ones setup for very specific purposes like Hunts.
And for duties, the biggest reason for why they are Data Center wide and not World Wide is probably to avoid adding in extra lag to people who'd be connecting overseas. Kind of why at first Data Center travel when it gets implemented in 6.x, it'll at least at start only be limited by region (EU, NA or JP). -
09-22-2021, 06:00 PMKleeya
If you are talking of hunting LS, all of mine did become dead when everyone switched to CWLS. Which seems kinda normal since when you change worlds a lot for hunting, the normal LS have the huge disavantage of not being usable anymore most of the time.
As for PF and DF being worldwide, i don't think that's gonna be a thing soon when basic data center travels have been delayed. It could also lead to tons of ping problems trying to avoid all these aoes in a busy instance if you begin to be paired everyday with people living at the other side of the Earth. -
09-22-2021, 07:02 PMPenthea
Did OP manage to end up on a sever on their own?
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09-23-2021, 01:01 AMGeminiReedThat's a question for Square. Not why the players don't use but why they haven't kept up with the times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fabbro
Linkshells and CWLS suffer from some serious limitations. Once CWLS became possible they should have converted all LS instead of maintaining two styles. The number of participant slots is hilariously stingy (128 for LS and 64 for CWLS). They require you to be manually added by a LS admin while you're both online. If you have the temerity to roll alts each of those must be added separately AND they eat another participant slot.
Discord suffers none of that. Even better you don't need to be logged into the game on the right character in case somebody is trying to coordinate something for the group.
Fellowships... just weren't thought out very well. At best they point you to a LS or Discord. Maybe if they grafted Fellowship's recruitment interface onto LS that would fix some of the above. -
09-23-2021, 01:35 AM_Pigzig
Get into beginner chat, all the cool kids are there, it’s the barrens/lfg of the game
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09-23-2021, 05:22 AMJojoya
Linkshells and cross world linkshells are used, especially by the hunt community. It's faster to click a macro to relay into multiple linkshells than to copy/paste relays to Discord. Discord still gets used because it doesn't have the member limits that linkshells do so it reaches more players but those in active linkshells are still usually going to be notified first. Linkshell capacity is an infrastructure limit that YoshiP has talked about in the past though we can hope the future infrastructure upgrades might allow them to increase it.
Fellowships are more popular with JP players. They're designed to function as message boards, not chat rooms, which can make them useful for events planned in advance or to advertise crafting services and the like.
Party Finder gets used. There's something you're doing wrong if you can't see PF listings. The amount of use is lower right now because we're at end of expansion and most players are done with their farming. Use will pick up once new content is released. SE has made some updates to PF over time and will probably continue to make more in response to specific player feedback. -
09-23-2021, 05:24 AMVahlnir
...The PF is full of activity every time I open it up, especially in the evenings. You must be playing in an alternate universe in which you're the only one present.
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09-23-2021, 10:43 AMTaleraRistain
Party Finder is alive and well on Aether
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09-23-2021, 11:37 AMEaMettAs an FYI. Most of the ff14 community has cleared most of the stuff you'd see in party finder ad nauseum by now. It'll pick up next expansion as players come back to the game and start running content again.Quote:
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09-23-2021, 11:38 AMJeeqbit
Linkshells get used primarily for hunting and cross-world linkshells sometimes get used for other activities like maps, statics, extreme and savage content, but discord is where a lot of communication happens. Every free company and static usually has one and finding people for certain content can be done a lot easier through discord because they might not be logged in right now, but you can communicate with anyone from your free company that is logged in.
You can find free companies and linkshells that are recruiting at https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...munity_finder/
Party Finder actually is cross-world and is a lot better for social interaction because communication usually happens while the party is filling and sometimes to discuss strategy. Party Finder is one of the most common ways to get people on your friends list and is used to advertise all kinds of content from raids and dungeons to maps and roleplaying.
On Balmung you can find a lot of people in shout at Ul'dah. Fellowships do get used a lot, for example people advertise their statics and roleplaying in them, sometimes people ask for help with their class or look for a few friends, but you have to look through all of the meme ones to see them.
Extremes are part of the mentor roulette although this version of extreme is synced a lot higher than the item level with an Echo buff that can reach a 30% stat boost, which can make it very easy to clear some of them. -
09-23-2021, 12:33 PMEnjuden
Most of the in game tools simply have lost their use because Discord is just the better option compared to link shells.
If you're making the post at close to midnight, I assume you're looking around then. Activity is dead at close to midnight unless content came out recently.
What are you looking for specifically?