Quote Originally Posted by frostmagemari View Post
There tends to be a lot of community interaction when people are actually in the same zone, but every new thing requires a new zone and any community that could exist is hobbled at the knees.
XIV has a serious problem abandoning content as soon as the zerg-rush is over. It wouldn't be perfect, but not just abandoning a zone to create another might go a long way for the whole "MMO" aspect of their game.
I admit I did not spend a lot of time in CE, but when I was there I saw no community interaction outside of brief shout conversations. The most of *that* I saw was during a progress fate (I forget the correct name for them) where everyone was voicing exasperation over how terrible it was. Gatherers and crafters simply do not interact with one another there outside of being bodies in a FATE.