Lack of 'server community' in FFXIV - a nostalgic perspective

[Dzian]

People are generally too selfish these days. They pretty much expect to be able to press a button and demand help without earning it.. aka duty finder..

Commitment is another issue as is impatience.. you see examples of these quite frequently as people will often say there statics fall apart as soon as they get a clear when people jump to a new static to clear the next one faster. No loyalty to the people that helped them through. Just
seeya bye and leave them all stuck

When they added potd you also saw it. People wanted to do 51-200 in a single session because no way could they do like 50 floors today and 50 more on friday. Cant possibly rely on those 3 people to turn up on friday so it must all be done nowwwwww.

The duty finder has broken up so many groups over the years. Even in arr. I knew a group of 4 friends who said they'd do relic together. Then overtime one has a day off so he'll work on his atma books or dungeon drops and before long everyones at totally different stages. And leaving there friends behind.

But the game practically encourages anti social behaviour. Right down to a story level.
"You can not progress this quest because your in a party with friends. Please disband to continue.."
we want to do the story together it's a god dam mmo after all.
You know.... Massively multiplayer..

cold steel in storm blood for example a whole group of us at the exact same point standing next to the exact same npc trying to get into that instance. All forced to go separately. And the same thing again at several points in the story...

How much less stress on the server would there have been if we could have gone as group. Then youd havec1 instance running instead of 4 or 6. You cant even say it's because thecdifficultynisvtuned for an individual because there's none..

One off the instances where you take that bridge and minago glamours the flag i honestly put my controller down for about 5 mins to go answer tbe door sign for a package and give a courier something to take back and make the kids a drimk... came back to my ps4 and within seconds of picking up my controller. Duty complete.. I was not even there.... I literally left my character auto attacking something.

Raiding again promotes anti social behaviour. Got your weekly drops. No you can't go and help a friend because you'll take away there loot chests... seriouslyyyy.

It's funny because this is supposed to be the often dubbed internet age of social gaming. But it couldn't be further from the truth.. i mean sure we play with other peoples but very rarely social. Even in duty finder less than 10% of people even say hi. And 10% is probably being incredibly generous at that.