I want to keep playing.

[Aoxaviar]

I made fast friends with a large group of people during Beta and when XIV launched. There was a group of around 40 of us who generally chatted it up and goofed off together, so when the FCs opened up, we all jumped on it.

I am a PS4 player, but I do know how to use an keyboard (and I do enjoy talking...when the conversation is something of real value or substance) and because of that, we had a damn good time.

Raiding (CT and BCOB) came, and pretty much all of the members of my FC basically bailed. I would say that 95% of the jumped ship, unsubbed, and found a different MMO due to bullying and other hate going on in the chat window during raid runs.

The other 5% relocated to Raiding FCs. I still see them and we still chat it up from time to time, usually around patch releases like this comming weekend.

Due to that, and the fact there are few players on Exodus during the weekends when I am online that are not in an FC, its not only hard to make good friends, but it is also hard to recruit. My FC is down to myself as the most active person, and 2 others who are online a handful of times during the month at best.

To the OP - I hear you, I get you, and I feel where you are coming from. You play but you also play wanting to do it with others who you consider friends.

ADVICE - If you are not willing to take a leap of blind faith and talk to other players, you will have a quite and lonely time in game. If you are not willing to spend the time to make contacts, talk to players, and cultivate relationships; you will have a quite and lonely time in game. If you cannot find something or a lot of things that bring you enjoyment, relaxation, excitement in game; you will have a bored, quite, lonely time in game.

In this game, any game, is the same as in real life. You will only get what you put into it. If you make no effort, you will get nothing for a reward.

With all of that said, if you are looking for a laid back place to chill for a while, and don't mind only having someone to hang out with on the weekends, come look me up on the Exodus Server. I will hang with you.

[tsunderehatter]

I recently had the same feeling. I got into a fight with a friend, not unusual for us though, we don't talk anymore, and I left the static, FC, and LSes we were both in. I even almost left the server because I got so mad at him. I'm not mad anymore, but in the aftermath of that fight, I lost another friend because of how upset I was getting over that fight and a break up I had, and almost lost another. I tried to transfer servers again, but two friends of mine talked me down from transferring and I stayed, joined one friend's FC, and I'm very happy.
All I really did was talk to people, even if it was terrifying, and I have two amazing friends and I'm happily talking and playing with people in my FC and in an LS I'm in.

[KaedrianLiang]

Find players of the same feather and flock together.

[Malicewolf]

One of my favorite sayings applies to this.
"Depression and Laughter are both contagious. Which one do you want to be spreading?"

Unfortunately, not everyone is equipped to handle depressive people. And it's exactly because it's such a contagious emotion. Your bad mood can easily drive someone else's happy mood straight into the ground and most people don't like that. But if you can get to a mindset where you are the one spreading the laughter, I think you'll find yourself overall in a better place, surrounded by better people.

[Ryan2714]

i live in a different time zone with most of the member in my fc so it like when i start to play, they start to log out, when i start to log out, they start to do thing so i somehow can understand how you feel, sometime i feel so lonely, noone to talk to, noone to play with,just running around doing everything by my own, but i still trying to get over it and try to enjoy every single moment when i can online with my fc, it is fun and they still try help me with a lot of things, make me feel so happy then ^ ^
You should try to join a nice fc, or when you do dungeon, trial ... and you see someone seem really nice you can try to talk to them and send them friend request, that way i think you can make a lots of friend too.
But 1 advise, being normal when you are making friend, cause i know some people trying to rush and become a noisy creepy stalker.
Hope that you can feel better and find a lot of friends ^ ^
p/s: sr for my bad english !

[Onje]

I have a hard time too, but that is mostly because I am shy, and I live in a different timezone. I, however, don't look for close friendships in the game. To just have someone fun to play with and chat with once in a while is enough for me. It is a social game, after all.

Too bad you make or break your enjoyment of this game on friendships on made. Hope you find what you're looking for in a different game