Why is everyone so silent in the game?

[Penthea]

so far from what I've seen in the thread, there's a consensus that there are some serious issues with people either getting easily offended or wanting to be speech police. I don't know how true this is, as i've never been banned despite several attempts to get people talking, but if this is the case, I am very shocked.

Don't believe that tripe about people getting easily offended or wanting to be speech police. I have been playing for over six years and I have never seen either example of those behaviours in the game. You seem to be a polite person who knows how to behave around other people. You have nothing to worry about.

[Yunuen]

Most of the time I personally just don't feel like talking outside of my FC. Sometimes I'll chat in NN if there's an interesting topic, or if someone PMs me, though.

[Azuri]

Why would I talk to random people on the street? Same logic applied here, random players in the world might as well be NPCs and I treat them as such.

[Roda]

No speech bubbles to let me notice when people are trying to be social, busy doing things instead of staring at the corner of my screen.

Socializing is dead in this game.

[Ampheni]

I kinda want to talk, but things I say sometimes aren't very well received by some people, so I don't really talk unless I know what kind of people I am talking to. Otherwise I do enjoy talking a lot with people I know. But randoms in dungeons, prolly not so much. I will say tho, I am more inclined to talk in extremes and savage runs.

[Velnora]

Don't believe that tripe about people getting easily offended or wanting to be speech police. I have been playing for over six years and I have never seen either example of those behaviours in the game. You seem to be a polite person who knows how to behave around other people. You have nothing to worry about.

Anecdotal evidence isn't a strong argument.

[crimsonwitch]

It’s 1 reason why I’m more inclined to quit .
I’ve always used mmos as a way to make friends because I live in corn. But this game is incredibly hard to make connections on so far.

Also everyone keeps saying people talk in Limsa , but it’s only to their friends or limsa cliques

[ICountFrom0]

Imagine being a human who cannot communicate without offending someone else.

You mean people with disabilities?

I've gotten reportbombed (elsewhere) over something as simple as trying to express that I don't like starbucks because they overroast the beans.

So yes, I DO try to be careful what I say in this game, I am rather intimidated by people, specially people like you who don't seem to get it and will assume bad faith automatically.

[SugarPuff]

Personally, although I almost always say hello at the beginning of a duty, I'm not great at starting up a conversation. I'm one of the (I suspect) many people who will respond but won't make an effort to get others talking, myself. It's partly because I'm not naturally outgoing, but I also work in customer service and get my fill of initiating small talk. I do like to talk about movies or tv and books, but don't run across many fellow horror fans within the FFXIV community and so I don't try very often.

[Hasrat]

Also everyone keeps saying people talk in Limsa , but it’s only to their friends or limsa cliques

For what it's worth, I've always found, whenever shout chat starts being... shout chat, it seems to more typically be Ul'Dah.