Against cross-server groups? please...

[PeppinoTuna]

Now this thread is target to people like me who have a real social life, work, school, gf or bf and other life obligations and that DO NOT have 8h a day to dedicate to a single video game.

Seriously cut the crap of cross-server dungeons will kill the social aspect of the game. Yes i did enjoy making parties in both FFXI and WOW(before they added cross-server auto-grouping).. It was fun and i did make a lot of friends that way. But that was way back when i was younger and had no job or anything special to do...

Now i do not have 1h+ to spend just to look for parties. 1h is pretty much the total time i can allocate to the game during a day and i don't want to waste it trying to find a party. I want to be able to login and pick up the game right away and play.

Yes some of you are hardcore gamers and spend 80% of your day in a mmo but not everyone is like that.

Also the game does not have an large enough active user base for a system where you need to look for people manually within your own server. When the game will have reached a user base above 5M and that finding a party will be quite an easy task, then i'd be glad to get rid of the cross-server system.

You could always just make a post on the forum designated to your server and ask for people interested in doing the dungeon to log on @ a certain time, a time most suitable for you, so that you'll have people to do the dungeon with... You already know how to use the forums, I can't imagine that you'll need an auto-party system to get anywhere in this game.

Cross server auto-partying systems have been known to create chaos in other MMORPGs. I hope most of you are not ignoring the downsides and trying to hold the positives to outweigh them. For you to use one source of communication, claiming that you need a new source to find parties looks ridiculous.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/114-COMMUNITY

I suggest you start using these forums and finding people interested in playing the same time as you. I've seen multiple threads on these forums where people are joining together at certain times and planning ahead.

Certainly, you've heard of the phrase, "plan ahead"?

When dungeons come out I plan on hanging out around the NPC to find a party. When it reaches the point to where I'm unable to find a party to do them, I plan to use the forums to find a party of people who is also interested in running them with me. Not only does it help increase community awareness, but it allows a chance to prepare ahead of time, discussing tactics.


With those that have used a cross-world partying system that auto-parties for dungeons, most of us have heard of and experienced the negatives of the feature and would not like to bring Final Fantasy XIV down to that level. If it ends up being part of FFXIV, I don't plan on quitting, but I feel that the negatives will outweigh the positives.