I love this game but why do i want to leave ?

[Lewtskie]

i understand your answers but my real problem is due to the difficulty of the solo content. If they raised the difficulty, people would communicate because they have to but now that we just have to mash buttons, i find i so boring.

Socializing is fun and i try to do that as much as possible but my boredom is still there when i do my daily activities.

Okay, forcing people to talk to you because you're lonely isn't gonna make them happy. In addition, making even the typical daily content balls-wrangling hard isn't gonna improve people's disposition either.

The daily objectives are just to steadily improve a character's progress for upcoming content that is actually designed to challenge. It's the method that allows even someone with only 2-3 hours a playtime in the week to improve equipment for that one day where they get do something long and challenging. That's the entire design of the raid night. And it's a good way to do things.

[Elazu]

How long have you been farming Ravana ex for now, TC?

[Ryamatsu]

I agree with you OP.

I run a lot of dungeons and I always feel weird after being the only person who even said "hi" at the beginning. And some people only talk when it's negative. Feels like a toxic community overall. Rarely you get a fun party with people joking and role-playing but this is very, very rare. People treat duty finder like a throw away service, you don't even deserve a welcoming notion. I still think SE should allow a button to only join people on your server (outside of using party finder to help attract the shy people) so you could try to build friendships versus just playing with strangers.

I've tried joining very large free companies and small ones. Even then it feels like everyone is quiet and does their own thing. FFXIV was designed to be a casual theme park, you really don't need anyone... at all. I believe this is the primary issue with FF14, not to blame the community but blame the very way the game was designed. The game is oddly anti-social, toxic and at times extremely unwelcoming.

They tried to make us work together with HUNTS but it doesn't require teamwork, communication or skill. And most times it just turns into a bloodbath of rage when people pull too early. Again, just turns into something extremely toxic and it's an activity I choose to avoid because of this. Now, I can't get my 180 equipment because I don't want to be surrounded by hostility.

I say all of this because I truly do care for this game, and I will continue to play it. There are some really great people who play this game. Balmung for instance has role-playing and the community is very active. I love listening to the conversations or the role-play chatter. There is always hope in the community to help alleviate the flaws of the game.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

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I understand all that. Most of my DF runs are either quiet till something goes wrong or everyone gives a generic hi and gg. I was in a FC that was very small and because no one wanted to sick around after joining, things kind of died down until I joined another FC that's very active and very friendly. Raymatsu, since we're both in the same worlds, I could invite you to my FC if you aren't in one already.

[Elazu]

They tried to make us work together with HUNTS but it doesn't require teamwork, communication or skill. And most times it just turns into a bloodbath of rage when people pull too early. Again, just turns into something extremely toxic and it's an activity I choose to avoid because of this. Now, I can't get my 180 equipment because I don't want to be surrounded by hostility.

Huh. I guess endgame raids don't exist in this game.

[KingOfAbyss]

Salut Palourde!

Pour ce qui est de la limite des 1000 caractères, tu peux éditer tes posts, donc juste écrire un peu tes pensées, tu cliques send, ensuite tu cliques édit et là tu peux écrire autant que tu veux (je sais, c'est vraiment con, mais comme enregistrer les jeux sur Moogle Station, tellement confu, on peux voir que le management est à chier chez SE, une chance que leurs jeux sont bons ^^

Je suis désolé d'entendre que tu peines à trouver ta place, même au niv 60. Une communauté se lie par ses membres, donc si tu causes et que personne te réponds, change de monde!

English Version: Hi Palourde! As regards to the limit of 1000 characters , you can edit your posts; so just write some of your thoughts, click send, then you click edit and there you can write all that you want (I know, this is really stupid, but it's the same with Moogle Station, so confusing, we can see that the management sucks in SE, a chance that their games are good ^^

I'm sorry to hear that you don't find your place, even on level 60. A community is bound by its members , so if you talk and no one replies, time to switch to another world!

[Jin-]

By far most anti-social MMO i have ever played. (automatic party creating makes it so). Played Age of Conan for 5-6 years and servers barely had more than few hundred players at the peak time and still it was a lot more social.
I also think it is very rude to ignore someone if he/s says hello to you in dungeons. I'm not a zombie who comes to dungeon to get tokens, i'm there for fun and to play with others . Tokens are just extra.

I still enjoy the game, i just find it sad that we play MMO, but we still won't speak with anyone. Maybe i survived so far these 2 weeks because i joined to guild which is very social, but you should not be forced to join guild if you want social activity

Also game misses a global chat which is a huge negative point, that literally forces you to join to guild.

Ps. I always give player commendation to players who talk and are friendly no matter how bad players they are. So you quiet elitist tanks who won't say a word, dont bother waiting at dungeon exit that player commendation because its not coming for you, ever. (Not aiming anyone on this thread, just a general feedback)

[silverhope]

Alexander opens next week. so raids are in this game. I have way to much stuff to do even after hitting 60. Gotta get my ilvl up to do EX modes and lvl my gathering/crafting up to make some gil. Lvl other classes. If players need others to hold there hand to find friends you have issues. Just be nice get out there and make some friends. Join a smaller FC join 8 linkshells and chat with people. DF is a issue with being social it happened in wow when they added it. People dont care they wont see you agian so why bother chatting. But I have had many groups that chat back and forth so its out there.

[MeiUshu]

FFXIV cannot be a social game. You cant speak as such, there is no iteraction possible not even with your own team member, you cant socialie if you are in a dungeon with your friends, and when you they cant because in a dungeon, you cant stop and talk, because a S rank just happened to appear and the guy needs to run, etc etc etc.. this game is all BUT social, in fact you are more alone in a FC then if you are without. If I spent of all my time in this game more then 3 months all in all in a FC is alot.. what for ?... friends are only your friends IF they can get out of you something. A FC needs you because you add to their numbers, unless you are close friends like in RL to them then of course you have more value, sort of. You play the game for yourself, not for the others, once you understand this, the rest is totally irrilevant.

Mei

[Rajeme]

Friendship is just an illusion. Get out of it before it's too late!