The thing with MMO’s is that it requires a lot of investment of your time and effort to progress in the game. Everything you do in an MMO will take time and a lot of effort (depending on the type of content you are doing) to complete.

The MMO industry has changed a lot in the past 10 years. The people who have been playing games for the past decade have changed too. Some have gotten full time jobs and perhaps a family of their own, or they are new to industry all together. You can see a trend where we as players feel that we don’t have enough time to play the game, but still want to progress through end-game raids. You can also see trends where players like us want to feel that sense of gratification when getting a item you want or surpassing that brick wall in front of us/glass roof above us, but with less time or effort spend as we used to do 10 years ago (mainly because we have less time to spend in the game then we used to).

We want to spend our time as efficiently as possible in order to progress towards our (personal) goal. Be it clearing End Game content, getting that special item, etc.

A lot of people remember the days where we would stand in crowded city-states, shouting for members to form a party. Some of those people also remember the horror of waiting for hours before actually getting a party together...

The Duty Finder and the Party Finder are means to make that process faster or at least more bearable. The problem with that is, we tend to socialize less with the people living in the same world. Some even place a lot of stress on others by placing high expectations on the party, or are simply rude (because they can).

It’s like Krr said in the post above me:

Quote Originally Posted by Krr View Post
Contrary to popular belief, finding or running "your own" static is not as easy as casting a spell on /r/recruitment or your server's forum that summons 7 other players that mesh with your group's needs and playstyle. You will spend hours in empty party finders trying to find people at 'your level', because people above 'your level' have no incentive - and in most cases negative incentive - to ever want to be around you.
It’s not like there aren’t any high level players that will join parties like that. But most of them would most likely have no real incentive to join learning parties or run low level content.

I can only talk from my own perspective. But, i tend to stick to my own FC, rather than scouting the PF if there are any people that need help. The main reason is that there is always someone who could use some help. Be it with the daily Expert Roulette, needing a tank for Aurum Vale so that they can level their class or need a hand with the Relic Reborn quest.

If not, then i have my own static with which i do Coil a few night per week or have other stuff i need to do myself (like doing the Main/Side Story quests, crafting, etc). Due to this, i don’t have a lot of time to spend on helping people i don’t know.

If i spot people in Mor Dhona or Coerthas shouting that they are looking for members for something like a Chimera or perhaps a Cape Westwind, sure i’ll join when i have time to spare. I’m all for helping people. But like i said, since i don’t have much time to spare, i would not be eager to join Coil or Extreme Primal Learning parties that might take an hour or even longer.

So, from that point of view. I believe that community should at least try to help out their fellow Eorzeans, but I think other people should also respect that not everyone has time to help out or feels like helping out.

It works both ways.

I’ll use the following quote from Tiggy, since that’s basically what this topic is about.

Quote Originally Posted by Tiggy View Post
MMO's are what you make of them. If you sit around waiting for things to happen then you're going to do a lot of sitting around. Proactive players get the most done and make the most progress.
As mentioned before, the Duty Finder and Party Finder are means to gather people to form parties and tackle content together, without having the need to have a lot of friends or a Linkshell/Company to help out.

But, at the same time i would also like stress out that there are benefits when it comes to joining a Linkshell/Company when it comes to gathering people to form parties. Because, like i said above, people like me (who love to help other out) tend to help out their members faster than “complete strangers”.

You just need to find a Linkshell/Company that best suits your needs as a player.

So, my advice: Take a look around your Worlds section on the forum and see if you can find a Linkshell/Company that is looking for members and are willing to help. You can also start a new thread, saying that you are looking for people to tackle Coil with. Players who are in the same situation as you will be able to reach you there.

You can also set your status to “Looking for party/members” and add some text to your Search Info that you are looking for people to do Coil with.

Add all of those things together and it shouldn’t be too hard to find like minded people to do content with.