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[Dzian]

It sounds like you are just bitter you haven't been able to make friends in this game the way you want to.

Perhaps not new ones but I've said manytimes my circle of frineds is a group of people some of which were in my old ffxi linkshell,some i met during 1.0. so some of these friends and connections go back almost 20 years. we've been to weddings, funerals, holidays together. 36 of us one new years party. and as I've said hundred of times. its those connections that often keep us playing. not the game itself. the game itself honestly isnt that good but good friends make it much enjoyable. often referred to xivas a cheap restaurant. crap food crap service, but with goodpeople can still have a great night..

In all those years though i cannot tell you how many people ive seen come and go and the social experience is often a big factor for why many new players don't stick around very long, because the social interactionis so shallow and makes it difficult for new players to make connections which is why so many drop the game.

That's not necessary true. Many player I know either left, split between servers or only connect for main patches. The atmosphere of the game has changed a lot since ARR.

There are many FC that struggle to stabilize (dramas, hiatus, one-month-patch-rushers etc.) and there are some that hesitate to recruit once stablized.

this is because all those connections are supershallow a lot of fc leaders especially on some of the bigger fcs that welcome new players will tell you the same thing..most new players just don't stick around very long. there was a topic on here not so long ago where they were discussing kickingnew players because so many of them play for 2-3 months andthen you never see them again and the fc list ends up saying 250+days since they last logged in...

XIVs community isvery selfcentred and not group centred. which is also why theres so many complaints about things like statics forever falling apart or even just needing a static to do content these days because of how selfish people killed the raidfinder off. it's all very shallow and superficial...

but going back to the making friends thing. to be honest making new ones would only cause problems because of things i said in my earlier post... it just causes drama when people cant be included in things.. like way back when we wanted to potd floor 200. 6 of us wanted to do it..... but we could only take 4... so yeah that was fun and drama... we did do a few different groups based on peoples play times but yeah.

its one reason why i honestly dont recommend the game to friends unless they're literally only interested in the story.. if they wanna partake in the group stuf and hang out then its just going to make stuff even more awkward.. its a similar reason to why many fcs just dont recruit. becausemore people just makes things awkward. which is why many people still want to see actual FC based content that everyone can take part in.