Quote Originally Posted by Amarande View Post
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Disagree. Community is more than belonging to a large FC. I find big FCs to be draining. I'm an introvert. So I'm in a small FC with a handful of people. But I belong to a larger community of roleplayers. Map groups. Raiders. Marketboard crafters and gatherers. Housing enthusiasts. Sure we may gather on Discord in our various groups, but we gather in game. My venue is being used by the fish group for an up and coming festival. I have an alt over on Dynamis to help fund a whole bunch of people trying to put together a little RP area collectively. I have a map group that I join every Sunday for the afternoon. These are my people. We're all on different servers, belong to different FCs, but we gather together in game to have fun together frequently. So long as FFXIV continues to provide content we all want to participate in together, we'll be logging in.

The days of large FCs are waning. There are so many ways to form community with other people now that it's almost archaic. You may call it cliquish. I call it setting behavior boundaries in a certain social group. And there are /many/ out there, enough that if one group isn't your cuppa, you can find one that is.