Quote Originally Posted by DoctorPepper View Post
A large part of why it isn't popular is the grand company restriction though. You can't play with your friends or FC mates effectively and nobody wants to leave out half of their friends when there is a ton of other content that you can do with them.

I literally never PvP in this game because I would rather do things with people I know than a bunch of random people I meet after a 20-30 minute DF queue. There is no room to make a pre-made team and actually practice as a team, which to me is the essence of what pvp should be.
My personal experience of PvP is this, no one I know plays it, or wants to. I understand that player experience varies, but the truth is that PvP in FFXIV is something that only a tiny minority of the playerbase is interested in doing.