Quote Originally Posted by Clavaat View Post
Discuss any experiences you've had meeting fellow FFXIV players IRL, either by accident or on purpose!
Actually, we had a very nice linkshell for many years, which started back in FF XI in the year 2006. With people from entire EU, US, Thailand, Australia. And we had yearly linkshell meetings in real life. Of course, not everyone could attend them, but they were fun! Two times in the UK, once in California, once in Florida, two in german language regions, one skiing week in Switzerland was planned ...

But sadly, then came Duty Finder AAR and it turned into a game which does not encourage building social networks, or even becoming close to each other and encouraging friendships. Quite the contrary, the social experiences in the game became quite toxic. Since then, our community deteriorated, too. And the last meeting has happened in May 2012, and only 5 people attended there.