Quote Originally Posted by Blissa View Post
I can count on one hand how many groups I had where people said more then hi. And that is another major problem with this game.
I don't comm people who don't talk in the dungeon. You could be the most amazing player of all time but if you don't social you get nothin'.

That said, I don't tend to use the duty finder for two reasons (both of which apply to your losing people); 1) I'm in no rush to get the bestest of the shinies, and 2) I want to spend my time playing with people I can talk to.

When my partner and I first started this game at launch we rushed through everything, burned the content and did all of the things. We got to 50, did the dungeons and trials and then... Got bored. We didn't look forward to the prospect of doing the same two dungeons over and over again to progress. So we stopped. When we came back? We've taken our good sweet time. We bumble about, exploring the world (what there is to explore, really) and just sampling things here and there. It's the people we know that mostly keep us occupied and that's what so many people who play modern MMOs are overlooking.

People like the people in your guild don't care about the social aspect. They will come in, do their duty roulettes, get their gear, max out then leave because they only care about consuming the content. To them, you and everyone in your FC and everyone they'll ever match up with in the Duty Finder might as well be NPCs there who's only purpose is to get them closer to their next piece of gear.

This is not a problem with the game (though I do wish there were more horizontal options, but that's a topic elsewhere!) but instead a problem with why people play these games.