Are alot of FC's really quiet?

[Dashuto]

Most FC and LS are pretty quiet in 14 from everything I've seen and been told.

Some of us on Hyperion arrived at a solution. And it was to ally a few FC's into an LS and refuse to use FC chat, talking on LS chat instead. With an LS chocked full to 128 of people actually socializing and doing events, we have pretty much 24/7 coverage and socializing. But also retain small, personal FC's, where leaders get to know their 30+ people and organize things with them.

Its kind of like mixing peanut butter and chocolate. You end up with a combo superior to either alone!

[CrystalRainbow]

My wife and I jumped around after our FC slowly died.
We have a social Endgame FC. We do stuff people always saying hi when we log on. It's what we where looking for.

[SinSiew79]

im in a good sociable FC, and we chat and do things together. But Ive been in 5 or 6 FC by now and they all end up dying due to lack of communication and the total wall of silence.

[StrejdaTom]

My FC has 15 - 25 people online and most of them are really sociable. OFC we have some people who never talk but usually there is a lot of chatter, also lot of people on TS. )

I have my static out of FC, but I would never leave the FC, because of the people. I believe it is really individual, there are sociable FCs and non-sociable.. if you feel alone in your Fc, maybe it is time to move on?

[Ghastly]

What are FCs? Until SE gives FCs a purpose, FFXIV will always be about LSs.

[NaliaBrown]

My FC is pretty talkative in FC chat. When a new person joins, we all welcome them. Sometimes we have someone telling jokes or stories. Or we're just chatting about nothing or someone is asking questions or asking for advice on the game. We're a very social FC, and that's one of the things I like most about it.

[Wobble]

We just had a couple join our FC and they were surprised we talked in the FF. I guess the one they left didn't allow it and had a separate linkshell for chat.

[Niroken]

From all the other mmorpg's that I've played FF14 by far is the most anti-social one and I believe that duty finder (while very helpful for easily finding party members on low pop servers) is the biggest reason for why FF14 is so damn anti-social. Honestly the only activity you have a hard time being silent in is raiding and I've still seen people in raid statics not talk to their group at all for months. Didn't they say they are making content where you can run dungeons with NPC's? I can only imagine that would make FF14 into a single player experience for a lot of people.

I'm not sure about other servers but if you look in Behemoth's forum section it's just flooded with almost nothing but coil requests and from what I've experienced in game I believe that the majority of people use FC's as basically a system for managing raid statics. Most of these statics mainly talk and do content by themselves or raid log while inviting other players basically to keep their company credits topped off for buffs. Housing has also separated FC's by making a difference in the amount of content available. FC's that have housing have more of an advantage of gaining new recruits then new FC's that can't afford or don't have access to affordable housing (fighting with individual house buyers). This is not mentioning the "amusement park" content lifespan makes it harder to keep people logged in to do content.

A lot of the way the systems of FF14 works is very anti-social which surprises me since the biggest point in playing an online game is to play with other people.

[StrejdaTom]

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For me the most antisocial game was Wildstar. I came there from FFXIV for 1 month and had to leave, because I felt so lonely in the game. I like the moments in FFXIV when people stop and start doing stuff which does not lead to any progress like 20 people dancing manderville or 50 people on fat chocobos in the Mor Dhona square, I have never seen anything like this in other MMOs. Also in other games in dungeons I really did not talk with people while here I usually join some chatter even during dungeons with strangers.

The only problem with this game is, that FC has no reason and you already said that. In Guild Wars 2 guilds have many activities to do together like guild puzzles and other missions. FFXIV has no such FC content and I hope that it will have it one day. )

[Kazumac]

While true at times our fc is quiet more often then not there is chat, and we also have a linkshell and invite other Free Companies as well

Define quiet... seriously we are a pretty chatty bunch I'sh! We just need to get some coffee (or tea) in our system before we wake up lol