No Community

[FoxPaw]

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Doing some housekeeping.
I can't delete this post so I'm going to delete the contents.

[Seig345]

I guess I wasn't aware so many people were struggling to make social connections in Final Fantasy XIV; but I think that it may be that the game allows for a wider demographic of players that could be causing the issue with finding like-minded players.

In Final Fantasy XI, if you saw someone who had made considerable progress in the game, then you knew right off that it was their kind of game and you immediately had something in common with them in terms of play style.

Here, you have some players who are here long-term/hardcore raiders, but also plenty of players who have far less time/can't commit to a weekly schedule for a video game. Because of this, you can't tell if another player is like-minded until you've actually gotten to know them.

I see plenty of people chatting it up in /say in Limsa Lominsa, FCs inviting all ranges of players, and I've been in my current FC since roughly around ARR's launch (and apparently they were around while I was playing 1.0 as well, I just hadn't met them yet), and I'm not even on a locked population server like Balmung, but obviously my observations are limited to the 1 server, so perhaps my experience is an edge case.

[Magic-Mal]

-Free Company
-Linkshell
-Friend list
-Keyboard
-Hands

Done.

[Zetsumei_Tsunarashi]

Honestly, the place where I've made the most friends recently in-game is ... The novice network. >.>

I guess newer players just aren't as jaded and generally have better attitudes towards the game.

There was one day where I actually hit the cap of how many people I can add to my friends list in one day, which honestly before that I didnt even realize there was a cap.

[gastovski]

You are right OP. It's because this game is crossplay with PS4. Console players aren't meant to socialize (pretty casual they are), just do quests, dungeons and enjoy their little limited fun they have been enforced to. Then also there is no massive PVP which is very important thing for a MMORPG. Too casual i say, too much.

[Yeol]

I disagree.

If you want to socialize with people, you do it yourself. Don't wait for others to come and talk to you.

Be active in your FC/LS. If you are doing daily roulettes ask if anyone wants to join you.
If you want to train or farm something speak/yell/shout. People will respond to you.

You'll eventually find a group of people always interacting with you.
I made friends though PF doing maps. It is that simple.

This game was designed to do things as a group. The only time you do things solo is some quests in MSQ.

[Xyno]

I think, that TS just want people play with him all the time, just want to be carried everywhere

-I want to go to the dungeon!
-OK man, here we are, ready to go with you

-I want...!!!
-Ok, here we are. lets go

And so on. Dude, FF 14 have tons of social ways, but it doesn't mean, that your in-game interests must be the same as other people have

[ErryK]

You say no community, except I've made countless friends via FFXIV, cross-data center too, as well as met my Fiancé through it. Don't go complaining on the forums that the game is supposed to do what YOU are supposed to do, that's not how socializing works. That's like saying an online food delivery app needs to know what kind of things you like and suggest based off that. It doesn't know you, so how is it going to know what you like and what you want to eat? On top of that, game difficulty has nothing to do with making friends, if you spend time together and have fun with whatever it is you do, you'll make friends.

[Animarelic]

This game is fine for Community, there's just so many people with social anxiety and fear of typing something beyond "Hello" at the start of a dungeon.

I came into this game at the recommendation of Two RL Friends who then ditched me for other games. Then server transferred to 2 more RL friends whom I had a falling out with over Raiding.

Fast Forward 2 years later I have 8 RL Friends from this game alone. We have RL meet ups and play multiple games together.

This game is harder on RL friendships than making new ones. You just have to find like-minded people and that doesn't mean just raid together. You will come across people with your sense of humor, outlook and play ethic if all you do is spend time with people on your friend list instead of treating it like A glorified Facebook Account assuming your friend list is some status symbol based on quantity.

And this is coming from someone who is considered "Not Well Liked" by others because of my views. If I can make eight friends IDK what's stopping the rest of you.

[Parisstilton]

You are right OP. It's because this game is crossplay with PS4. Console players aren't meant to socialize (pretty casual they are), just do quests, dungeons and enjoy their little limited fun they have been enforced to. Then also there is no massive PVP which is very important thing for a MMORPG. Too casual i say, too much.

I'm sorry but I don't see how my being on ps4 makes a difference to wether people are social or not.