too me FFXI and XIV has always been about the social experience. i loved how in XI you needed to meet people to lvl up effectivlely, at least you did when i played dunno what changes has been made over the years but i hear its more solo friendly anyhow, i love the same thing for XIV. when this game first came out you needed to be social and make good friends to be able to get stuff crafted and progress well, it was just about running from point a and finding a guy with a ! over his head and doing what he wanted. But yah, for me FF brings a better social experience to an mmo genre than others have, but thats just me =)