Talk to me! [It is an online game]

[Dzian]

People don't talk because the game is incredibly anti-social in so many ways.

You can start with the button spam combat system that never really grants a moment to type a sentence or make a social connection. Because if you're typing you're either falling behind or not doing your job and annoying the rest of the party.

But even if you could chat you cant sendn or receive tells to your friends in duties anyway so building social connections there is also a nono. and you often dont bother startinga conversation because as soon as the queue dings that response they sent you doesn't get received.then when your out of a duty theyre in one so cant continue talking anyway

Then there's the msq itself and it's arbitrary forcing you to be a Billy No Mates. You cannot progress because your in a party with friends. Even if there all a the exact same point in the msq. Honestly the msq qould be infinitely more fun if i could actually paly it ewith friends.. a storyshared is infintiely better than a story not..

You cant help your friends either in some cases like Savage because if you do you'll gimp there rewards so again anti-social there. actively discouraged from helping people.

There's also group size everyting is strictly 4 8 24 man so if you have 6, 7, 10 people that all want to do something people are inevitably going to get left out or excluded or noone does anything because the 7 people that want to play together now need an 8th pug which will interfere with any loot plans they may have..

All if this leads to any social connections and "friends" you do make often being incredibly shallow and superficial... not to unlike Facebook where someone thinks there popular because they have 1000 friends... yet never has meaningfull interactions with any of them and still feels.lonely and depressed because none of those 1000 friends are real..

Oh and duty finder. So you got a duty with 3 or 7 other players.. chances are once the duty is complete you'll never get matched with them again and if you do it'll be so long ago you forgot them..

Can't chat at all in PVP either. even more anti-social

All of which play big parts in why people dont communicate and the social interaction in Xiv is so superficial