Quote Originally Posted by Alex_LoneWolf View Post
That was in the original design that was announced, if I remember correctly, but even if we just ended up with another chat mode for Free Companies that wanted to work together, that'd be a big step forward.
Yes you remember correctly.
But I am sorry to tell that eventually all we got was the "Alliances" featue, an more flexible that the 24men even no need to be in a FC! ^^;
That's what the ancient mentioned "Free Company Alliances", sorry to tell that but it was the result.


FYI - below post on 10-22-2013 03:33 AM

Quote Originally Posted by Okipuit View Post
Hello,

We realize there are a lot of concerns about not being able to join the Binding Coil of Bahamut without the use of the Duty Finder as well as free companies that have different purposes.

During Letter from the Producer Live IX the other day, Yoshi-P discussed some upcoming features that will help alleviate these concerns. The biggest of which is the implementation of a party member recruitment feature where you can search something like a bulletin board to find and recruit party members with similar goals. This is scheduled to be implemented in patch 2.1 and we will be announcing more details on this feature in the future.

Also, as we've mentioned in the past we will be indicating what item level equipment is required for content in order to participate, so members who wish to participate with you will all be on the same page gear wise.

Finally, in patch 2.2, as we mentioned in a separate post last week, we are planning to implement a free company alliance system, which will let you join your free companies together to see both member lists, share a chat channel, and have other useful features.

We'll be implementing a variety of features moving forward step by step to ensure that everyone can play comfortably and easily in the content that they wish to participate in.