The Sound of Silence

[Serilda]

I talk a lot (despite being on console) and get frustrated when people won't respond even to critical attempts at important tactical communication - on my server it's the non-Japanese-speakers who are notorious for this. I assume they are used to not being able to communicate and just don't bother reading the chat at all but since I can translate for them it's very frustrating to be ignored. Some people don't even say a quick hello in auto translate when I join a PF to help them - I leave when that happens because life is too short to help people who won't bother acknowledging your humanity. Quiet is fine if people are busy or shy, but at least greeting one another reminds me I'm not just playing with a bunch of bots

[Anarnee]

Sometimes I wanna chat sometimes I wanna get the run over with. I try to always say hi, and if someone else wants to chat I'll usually speak up, I don't force it though.

[Pomelo]

I'm often talking in LS/FC channels, most of the time I won't bother to talk other than hello or to give directions or pointers in party. I don't mind chatting in alliance channels but I'm on console too....

[Aldora]

I always greet the party with a "<Hello!> (^_^ )/ <Nice to meet you!>". After I simply go with the flow.

Most parties I'm in are indeed very quiet. But, if someone feels like talking, I'll be happy to respond. Other than that, it’s more or less about feeling the atmosphere of the group. If I mess up something, I tend to confess about it in a jokingly way. Sometimes this will end up in a funny conversation (or at least get people to respond).

At the end of the Duty, I'll give a hearty "<Congratulations!>" and a "<Take care.>" before I leave the duty.

[Nyxn607]

As a few have posted before, playing on PS4 makes it difficult to talk while fighting. Especially if you are like me and don't have a key board to use yet

[Paladinleeds]

I'm on PC, have a keyboard (play with gamepad and MMO mouse), but I don't always talk. Last night however, I was able to be chatty. Last tank in Baelsar's Wall was pulling too much, refusing to use cooldowns, causing deaths, and then blaming the healer who was doing everything in their power to keep said tank alive but couldn't. Tank then ragequits. I join in (was on Skype with my friend in said group). I'm tired, but still able to hold chatter, plenty laughs had (still only got 1 comm though... GAH! What did I do wrong?). Group loved having me there, when mistakes happened it was like "Oh well". Not much chatter during boss battles because everyone focusing (though me and my friend are blitzkrieging it over voice). Took a steady pace but we got it done. Annoyingly the healer was on a different realm to me and my friend, so we couldn't add them to friends. They were a very good laugh.

[Faliandra]

I love chatty fun runs, but the truth is that me trying to be most efficient at what I do keeps me too busy to engage in a conversation.
Although,if it happens, I join in happily anyway...not like most AoEs in Roulettes hurt that much anyway... xD

the other thing is that it actually DID happen a couple of times that I REALLY had lots of fun because of a person or two, that I really wanted to add them to my F-List just to
realize they arent from my server. Breaks my heart every time.

[LalaRu]

If the topic is ok then I answer but if the topic is something like "my cat is white" "I hate my neighbors" or "my dog is so silly" out of nowhere, then I dont bother replying.

When I meet a topic I am not interested, me too will not reply. And for sure I don't put my reply there just stating how I feel silly the thread's topic, I don't want appear rude to the people participating there. After all, not everyone have same interests.

[Just-Communication]

I imagine the song playing in my head when (as the tank):

a. I say hello at the beginning of a DF party and no one answers;
b. I say hello at the beginning of a DF party and the healer/DPS has already pulled the first mob;
c. I stop at the first boss to explain the fight (if there's a new member) and the healer/DPS pulls the boss;
d. I congratulate the party on a job well done and everyone's already left the instance;
e. I say hello to a random person at a quiet aetheryte and they fly away on their chocobo; and
f. when I visit the Famfrit server forums on Lodestone.

Hello darkness, my old friend...

I talk a lot (despite being on console) and get frustrated when people won't respond even to critical attempts at important tactical communication - on my server it's the non-Japanese-speakers who are notorious for this. I assume they are used to not being able to communicate and just don't bother reading the chat at all but since I can translate for them it's very frustrating to be ignored. Some people don't even say a quick hello in auto translate when I join a PF to help them - I leave when that happens because life is too short to help people who won't bother acknowledging your humanity. Quiet is fine if people are busy or shy, but at least greeting one another reminds me I'm not just playing with a bunch of bots

You know what, good on you for leaving if folks don't have the basic decency to say hello. I kind of agree with that. Sometimes I wonder if it's simply a different mentality. The line between friend is stranger is like a thin piece of bamboo paper. It feels as though players are so turned off by negative experiences with people in game that anyone who's not in their FC, LS or friend list are pushed into the 'just barely tolerable' zone and, the moment the tiniest controversy occurs, things explode. It's like folks are just so pent up with frustration that they're subconsciously waiting for conflict to happen just so they have a reason to vent.

With how some quests play out in HW, where NPCs actually run around with you in a dungeon, might as well ask SE to let us run with NPCs for anything that's not end-game content if it's no different than doing a DF instance with unresponsive players. Probably less grief, too.

[Zojha]

Quiet is fine if people are busy or shy, but at least greeting one another reminds me I'm not just playing with a bunch of bots

You can program bots to greet you if you come online or join the group, though! Can't do that with players.

Goat Simulator's MMO level is quite fun in that regard: You get a chat that's constantly spammed with seemingly legit MMO requests, arguments, memes, LFM and whatnot - all by bots. Perhaps ironically, it's more lively than even Idyllshire arguments >_>