Community in this game is unbelievable.

[Synapse]

About as much as I did in XI. Part of that has to do with the fact that the group doesn't have to be in the same zone when you do a piece of content "lmao".

Even if not, how often a new member that join a party even says hello anymore? i been in dungeons where no one even typed a single letter.

A bit more than in XI, but I don't see it as an issue. Most people will talk if others initiate a conversation.

a bit more? its a daily occurrence in PF. In a duration of single PF, u will at least get 1 person join and leave(even before the PF fills up).

I saw people ditch xp parties all the time in XI. Did you ever do merit parties? It was normal for people to join, farm like mad, then leave.

No one ditched just in a flash, Reputation matter in FFXI, unlike FFXIV. Remember waiting for replacement don't you? i guess you met lot of those bad players huh? i hardly saw much like that, maybe it has to do with the groups people we associated with.

Bad player(the trolls and disrespectful) in FFXI were treated like a dog with rabies.

Yeah, we definitely played a different game. I can tell you never participated any HNMs. The community is what you make of it. Engage in positive behavior and it will be reciprocated, but if you keep pining for a community that never existed (XI) you're going to leave disappointed.

FFXI community was in fact much better compared to FFXIV, maybe because they required you to strategize a lot, or maybe because Most of the NA's picked up on the JP's gaming respect for individuals, idk. That is lacking in FFXIV for sure.

I can tell you about my 4 yrs HNM career (i believe i was the 14th NA server wide to obtain Ebody back in early 2005, where most of the NA were still fighting sky gods, the name is Synapse) but i think that is depressing, it was nothing but drama, then again, i see many people use HNM scene as FFXI to bash in these forums, so not surprised.

I enjoyed these interactions in the other aspects of the games, such as limbus, dynamis, besieged, and those whole CoP, aht urgan contents, even going as much as TP burn parties and pankrations.