Quote Originally Posted by Allistar View Post
contrary to what some people believe LS served just fine like guilds from other games...it's in this game that they served no purpose...so Yoshi in his infinite wisdom decided that he would regulate LS to be just a chat channel instead of giving them the attention they rightly deserve...FC is just a fancy name for LS with all the right functions...which imo is stupid...the resources could have been spent to fix the problem with LS instead of creating a whole new entity that we did not need...
It could be done with a single entity, but I don't see any reason not to still include linkshells for chat and I actually see it as a plus. I for one will utilize it as I have a small number of real life friends that also play. Whether we're in the same guild or not for running content or general guild chat, it's still nice to have a second chat channel to talk just to them and not the rest of the guild without dealing with a tangled mess of /tell.

It allows the flexibility of keeping in touch with several distinct friends groups while still maintaining loyalty to a main group. If you don't plan on multiple groups, no harm done, you just don't have to carry extra linkshells then.