still silent

is it just me or is it still quite in the game? I have shouted at camps offering people a chance to join in on my leves. I've heard with leve linking and higher star difficulty it gives good SP/XP but no one takes me up on it. I've heard that a lot of people stick with their LS which is ok but it's hard to get an LS. I don't see shouts and when I shout it makes people mad for some reason.

I like to find a group to play with or at the least a LS just to shot the shit with but it seems that people don't want to talk.

Not on my server.. lul x.x

Sometimes its hard to get people to shut up on Besaid....

Yeah, it's pretty quiet on my server (Rabanastre) too...it's not a HUGE population or anything but it has a fairly decent amount of people :X The only times I hear others talking are during Behests and very rarely I will find two people talking in camps...most of the city talk is a single sentence in another language...and I've only seen two people ever talk in the city >_> Shouting, at least.

Besaid is insanely quiet imo... yes people DO in fact talk here and there but for anyone who has ever played a mmo... especially one with a population of our size, its still really freakishly... umm... silent :_(

I randomly come across chatter in the towns on Trabia but not so much out in the world, though if anyone has trouble getting an LS on Trabia feel free to look me up (Wobi Arumai) I have members come and go, would be nice to recruit some reliable folks who want to help grow the LS more : )

I'm on Trabia and it's dead silent. I have two LS for the different time periods i play in, but when i try to talk in a crowded camp not a single soul answers, even though they are soloing the same leves i'm proposing them to team up for...

I actually decided to create a dummy character last night and see how busy Ul'dah was in almost every server that showed 2 or 3 chocobos. I realize that you can't judge a population solely based on the activity in one city but one would think the biggest hub on a server, during peak NA hours and on a day with no leve reset would be a decent sample. I was surprised (and happy) to see that my server, Karnak, was one of, if not the busiest of them all :) Now that may not be saying much, kinda like a sports team with a crowd of 300 people in a stadium that holds 50,000 boasting about having the highest attendance its had in 6 months, but it was reassuring to me that we're doing good compared to the others.

If anyone sees this and wants to try out Karnak I encourage you to do so. Its free to create alts so you're not losing anything by giving it a shot! We may just be the last good server left!

P.S. I found it somewhat funny that when I logged on to Selbina, not only was there hardly any activity at first (2 or 3 crafters and a few afk) but when I finally ran into the first LS that looked to be assembling for an event they were completely rude to me lol. I put out a /shout and said I was a new player from Karnak and that I was thinking about switching to their server and was responded to with a shout "we don't like your kind around here" and then when I ran by they made fun of the appearance of my character (it was obvious they were just trying to be jerks for no reason, I made the most generic Highland male I could).

I thought it was funny because here's a server that is obviously having a hard time and when the players left should be doing everything they can to keep new players there & possible roll overs to stay, these guys were doing everything they could to get me to leave. I'm sure I just ran into a Jack--- that shouldn't represent their server as a whole (we all have them) but I just found it ironic.

I'm on Wutai and it's rare anyone speaks. It's rare anyone actually does anything all i ever seem to see is hordes of people standing still.

Selbina here..Hate it. No one says a word. I will ask if anyone wants to group up for leves, etc but no one says anything ever. I've been playing on and off since December and just yesterday was the first time I grouped with someone not doing behest.. I dont understand why people stay quiet. Heck, I've even asked around in towns for an active linkshell that talks, and get no replies.

I honestly dont think the game is terrible, and I enjoy it when I am in a party. The community is what is killing this game for me. I dont understand the lack of conversation in game..

Ummm.....Lindblum here. We are all pretty chatty? always different shouts for stuff. people chatting in /s as you wander throught towns.

Maybe i have just had an isolated experience.

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Heck, I've even asked around in towns for an active linkshell that talks, and get no replies.

I honestly dont think the game is terrible, and I enjoy it when I am in a party. The community is what is killing this game for me. I dont understand the lack of conversation in game..

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If you're willing to start over and give Karnak a try, I know 2 LS who will take you in! One is really big & the other is somewhat new, so its small in size but super friendly. I have pearls to both so I could talk to their leaders ahead of time that way you wouldn't have to try to find them on your own ^^ (I would invite you to my main one but they have a Phys LvL requirement). Anyway, like I said earlier, it couldn't hurt to give it a try if you're not having a good experience where you're at.

it's hard to get an LS? Really? have you asked anyone to join theirs?

I'm on Mysidia and it's not that quiet on my server. On Mysidia you'll get shouts advertising Linkshells, I've mainly been seeing that in Japanese, and people trying to get people to join them for levelinking or guildleves at certain camps (I've been mainly seeing this in Japanese). I've hardly seen conversations though, atleast not in English. I've only been spoken to twice during my time in the game (as far as actual conversation goes), once by someone who asked if I can help with a behest (I was on my way out so I couldn't help unfortunately) and another by a player who wanted to join me on my guildleves at Camp Drybone so he can better level his Thaumaturge.

I remember reading that Mysidia was considered as one of the unoffical Japanese servers so that might be one of the reasons why I can't find many English speaking players to talk to, but the other is that most of the English speaking community on my server keeps to thier Linkshell. I'm at the point where I'll say random stuff just so I can get a reaction out of people; you know, to instigate a conversation. Anyway, if you see me on, feel free to say hi to me, I'd really appreciate some form of human contact.

As mentioned before, Besaid can be chatty but usually only in Ul'dah if at all. And usually it's the RPers doing their own thing.

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it's hard to get an LS? Really? have you asked anyone to join theirs?

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It's hard to ask anyone when nobody wants to talk in the first place, the game is very very shell-clique orientated sadly. If you don't have one its a very unwelcoming and dire experience.

I'm also on Selbina and its pretty lively actually...

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It's hard to ask anyone when nobody wants to talk in the first place, the game is very very shell-clique orientated sadly. If you don't have one its a very unwelcoming and dire experience.

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Very true and add in the fact almost NO-ONE even advertises their LS it's pretty sad... that's just how anti social everyone is on the game atm You shouldn't have to ask to join someone's shell... they should be recruiting and you should know it! But people in the game atm can't even speak up to do that, it's sickening to a point :(

Akira.. I am on Wutai, and umm, you are not even close with your observations, you must be standing in a river in the black shroud or something. Wutai is actually really busy, don't know what FF14 you are playing....

Also have another character on Mysidia, you ever seen 80+ people trying to get in on a Behest, because I have. Mysidia is nuts, it has to be at the top of the list, population-wise. And there are always shouts and whatnot for leve groups.

I'm on Saronia which is one of the lowest population servers, but Ul'dah can be pretty chatty.

There are a lot of people in different LS's who are friends with each other, so the conversation often spills over into /say chat. It's maybe 60:40 Japanese to English.

I find the English speaking players to be more quiet in-game, maybe because a lot of people use voice chat servers within their LS's whereas Japanese people don't?

Also, it seems that a bunch of the English LS's require online applications. I haven't come across any Japanese LS's with those sorts of policies. They don't offer linkpearls as freely though, usually waiting until they get to know someone first.

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Not on my server.. lul x.x

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This is sarcasm, right? If not, please pass the rose-colored glasses this way.

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I'm on Wutai and it's rare anyone speaks. It's rare anyone actually does anything all i ever seem to see is hordes of people standing still.

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This seems to have become the norm across all servers.

Selbina is a older people server I think, on the weekdays no one on (we must be at work or college, even some highschool youngins I bet), but then on the weekend everyone is active.

Besaid Uldah chat has been off the hook for the last hour...