Road to creating my own FC. (What's your success story?)

[Obysuca]

What makes an FC die out? (I've seen ONE scenario happen, so I'd like to know what other possibilities could cause this and how to prevent?)

Well, I started up a FC on 2.0 release. We had about 100 total members with maybe 40 or so on at a time. A little before 2.1 came out and shortly after, members started dropping like flies (not just my FC either, a majority of them), because they realized there wasn't much to do at cap. So me and a few friends stuck around, to see if maybe it'd get better. It didn't (3.0 is 2.0 all over again)
So slowly, my FC and most of the other FCs on my server were dropping down to about 5-10 people on total, sometimes if that. We tried to get new members, but most would join, never say a word, then either leave or quit the game entirely, usually anywhere from an hour of joining to a week. After a while we ended up with only maybe 15 members and like 5-6 on at a time. I had to take a break from XIV due to reasons for about a month and a good friend of 7 years convinced me to lend her FC leadership while I was gone, incase it was needed. Well, I get back and 2 other members had convinced her not to give it back, resulting in a huge argument and over half of the FC leaving with me to make a new FC. That now ex-friend and the two people who convinced her to do that, took all the gil and items, went to a new FC, bought them a medium house, somehow got leader of that FC a few months later, stayed there, left it, it died, they joined another new one this week.

Anyways, a year later now, my FC has dropped down to about 2-4 people online at a time, like most FC on Midgard, no one's hit over 10 members on at one point. Even the big 200+ member fcs have died down to about ~10 online at one point, with a total of maybe 30 people in the FC

Tl;dr - I think the reason for a lot of FCs dying is that XIV gives no reason to be social, so most people get on, never say a word, don't make bonds with people, then just quit.