FF14 has a great community!

[Obysuca]

I can't help but wonder if I missed any actual interactions from other players.

>_> Trust me, you didn't lol XIV is the least social mmo I've played to the point where RMT spam is greater than the amount of people who actually talk.

[SolaceX]

>_> Trust me, you didn't lol XIV is the least social mmo I've played to the point where RMT spam is greater than the amount of people who actually talk.

I wonder how much of that is due to the whisper spams making the whisper system ineffective.
If I ever wanted to PM someone I'd hesitate now because I am pretty sure they won't even look at it or miss it completely due to the spamming.

[Niwashi]

>_> Trust me, you didn't lol XIV is the least social mmo I've played to the point where RMT spam is greater than the amount of people who actually talk.

I think the RMT is a great deal of the reason why it's so non-social. People won't talk to each other if anything they say is going to be flooded out by spam or not seen at all due to so many people turning their chat off.
I have occasionally talked to other players through /tell or /shout, and it really helps to make the game seem more welcoming and friendly, but you're right that it doesn't come up very often. I blame the RMT spammers (and SE for allowing all that spam through) for the fact that we see so little of it.

[Obysuca]

I think the RMT is a great deal of the reason why it's so non-social. People won't talk to each other if anything they say is going to be flooded out by spam or not seen at all due to so many people turning their chat off.
I have occasionally talked to other players through /tell or /shout, and it really helps to make the game seem more welcoming and friendly, but you're right that it doesn't come up very often. I blame the RMT spammers (and SE for allowing all that spam through) for the fact that we see so little of it.

Sadly, DF has a hand in making it less social too :/ Since people figure "Oh, I won't see them again, no point in talking" and most use it to get through content, so then they never do things with people on their server. Not to mention XIV kinda encourages people to not be social too (solo story/job quest instances, solo queueing for expert is faster than queueing with 1 other person)