Current State of End-Game Contents - A Blog Post from A Japanese Player

[GalkaBikini]

Tl,dr; you're very unique in how you run your FC (imo) because on my server, most want to do their own thing and have no interest in helping, being helped, or having friends. They just want to solo to being the shining star of the server.

That makes me want to cry.

[Yukiko]

That makes me want to cry.

FFXIV does not support Group play with groups more than 8 players.
I do not say it is impossible, because as you said with effort you can keep track and manage to compensate downsides of game support but still it is life draining.
Questing often require you to leave group, with chocobo you cant be invited any more, not to mention DF where you cant do dailys in group...

Our FC is a group of people who have played together in other games for over 3 years...varying skills, varying ages, varying interests, and we are all friends and want to stay together, which, as I pointed out, is not really catered for in this game. So there is no "I don't want people that....." applicable

While time passes, friends coming and going...
I am glad there are some good groups out there, but what will be in 3 more years? life continues and the problem is you will not be able to login at same times each day, can you still form a static then?

[Xine]

That makes me want to cry.

I'd have to agree with her, I've been in at least 3 different FCs since the release of 2.0 and in every one of them, the group was more focused on doing things solo. The second FC I was in was great at the start but then the original left after raging at people for having problems with some of the other members and handled their problems extremely poorly. Shortly after he left the game the next person who took over the FC did an even more horrible job at being an FC leader and the FC is even more toxic then the rest of the server and Duty Finder.The FC USED to help people out and make sure everyone knew how to handle fights and would teach new people how to do the fights. However since the FC is under "new" leadership, they went in the complete opposite direction and its falling apart and the leadership is extremely selfish and only out for themselves. I've long since left the FC and this is just what I've heard about them. My FC I'm in now is practically empty and nobody ever logs in anymore save like 5 people. My old static fell apart because people couldn't gather for more than 30-60 minutes once a week to do any content, but the group was great while it lasted and at least managed to clear t5.

There's nothing wrong with group content at all, but I don't even bother touching EX Primals or SCoB because the random groups attempting to do the fights now fail so hard at it that its not worth my time and the migraines that ensue with it to even give them my time. Because I HAVE tried with randoms and honestly, I have better luck in Duty Finder with people on other servers than people from my own server.