Why is everyone so silent in the game?

[Illmaeran]

What's the reason behind the lack of social interactions?

I've tried to get people in my FC into voice chat with no success. When I started MMOs 17 years ago, voice chat was THE THING and everyone in the guild was on it. Now, aside from the occasional Discord post and some in-game chat, everything's quiet. The Femroe LS I'm on is more active than any other channel I'm on.

People are just quiet these days in general, even on other multiplayer games I've been on in the past 5 years.

[SherlottaEryut]

MMO’s have become more anti-social single player games. No one can ever convince me otherwise, because I have experienced MMO’s back 10+ years then during the prime, to what they have become now.

For the small amount of people who do talk, they either whisper or they only talk in a party. People have grown to fear publicly talking, adding even more to the illusion that no one speaks at all.

[Vav2021]

MMO’s have become more anti-social single player games. No one can ever convince me otherwise, because I have experienced MMO’s back 10+ years then during the prime, to what they have become now.

For the small amount of people who do talk, they either whisper or they only talk in a party. People have grown to fear publicly talking, adding even more to the illusion that no one speaks at all.

I know that RP servers on multiplayer games yield high social interactions.

[Listrella]

Most are super quiet. Came from SWTOR which was super chatty to here and was shocked by the silence. People will even come up to you... but say nothing.

and that's a good thing, I have to mute shout chat most of the time in SWTOR because of the crap people say on general chat there.

[Packetdancer]

Maybe its your server, Mine is constantly full of chit chat, Primal data center dungeon chit chat all the time as well.

I'm in Primal as well, and I don't know that I'd agree with "all the time".

Now, that said, I definitely am ready with a quip or a comment when there's space to do so in a dungeon run; witness my usual "Thank you for choosing Uber; please remember to tip and review your whale." at the end of Anamnesis Anyder's first section. And when I do make those comments, it usually sparks responses and banter, at least here in Primal. (I've gotten some good quips back in return to the Uber joke, including "2 stars, whale enforced single pulls" or "1 star for safety concerns; driver was in multiple small collisions during journey" Sometimes, folks just /laugh, or will /gratuity for the 'tip' part of 'tip and review'.)

And if someone else makes a light comment first, I'll also join in with the usual resulting banter.

But if no one speaks up, I do tend to find the runs are largely silent. Because, honestly, there's not a lot of time to talk once you're in combat, and if the dungeon doesn't have enforced downtime (see, again, Anamnesis Anyder's forced pause before the first boss), you're generally in combat nearly nonstop. It's just that -- at least in my experience here on Primal -- once someone breaks the silence, the chatter starts readily enough.

[Packetdancer]

"Why is everyone silent in this game?"

Because we are jrpg protagonists made by a character creator?

*nods in stoic silence, before taking one step forward and tapping a finger to chest to indicate 'yes, I'm the one for the job'*

[technole]

Limsa Thot chatter is toxic, but it's much less nowadays since we got the AFK timer, not a bad thing at all.

Nonetheless you should join an FC or find some friends that share the same topics in linkshells, there is plenty of talking that goes on. Believe us when we say just because dungeon chat is silent, doesn't mean that person isn't typing in their chat room LS in the middle of falling asleep to AoEing mobs.

[wereotter]

o/

ten characters.

[Abelisk]

It really depends on your server. I'm on Balmung and the instant I zone into Ul'dah someone posts a cringy sentence into Shout chat.

[MoofiaBossVal]

FFXIV is a lobby game. You don't need to browse through a marketplace and click on players to browse their inventories, or find people in trade chat advertising their wares and go meet up with them. You just go to a market board or an NPC vendor and buy the gear you want without having to ever interact with another person. You don't need to form parties and then spend hours out in the world adventuring together, getting to know those people and add them to your friend's list. You can do everything out in the world by yourself. Maybe someone comes along to do a FATE you're doing too but you're existence isn't important to them, and they will leave and forget you. To raid, you don't have to leave town an hour prior to the raid time to go on a journey with friends collecting buffs and travelling through dangerous territory to the raid. You queue through party finder to form a group for a trial or a raid, teleport to the boss platform, don't really building shared experiences with each other over time, just needing each other's firepower for an hour at most and then once you get your clear and your goodies, you go your separate ways. Mercenary friends. And so on.

If you wanted an MMO where people were talking to each other out in the world, you should've been playing an oldschool MMO back in the day.