"Everyone's so open and friendly" is a lie

[jadeblade]

This is an mmo in the age of entitlement. The easiest way to get by is to interact with others as little as possible since everyone is offended by everything and SE likes to cater to every little hurt feeling if the "victim" wines loud enough. Can't tell you how many times I've had people scream obscenities (like sexist, borderline racial, and ERP-esque advances) yet they never have anything done to them since they still do it so openly and freely. Yet I get a strike because someone didn't like my corny joke of an LB macro.

When I first started, I was a lot more open in my interactions. Now a days I'm only out in the open world to do the few things I need to then I hide at my personal house. I avoid talking in DFs as much as possible because the GM team treats you as "guilty" even if it's a bogus report filed. I've had to snap at a GM and appeal my case before. If you're deemed "guilty" which you are the second the report is filed, then you can't do anything about it and it's forever attributed to your account.

They intentionally under inform you of whatever offence and use their non-existent excuse of a "privacy policy" to refuse to tell you pretty much anything. This approach makes the GM team essentially look at you like a walking money pile. We're not people. We're just money.

You can make friends and be social with them try by saying hi , if they are receptive then continue .it is really easy you know I pet lalas before I open conversation, if they respond to my pet that means we can go further like real world you know checking if a person is receptive before talking them ,you know,social skills, do you go to strangers and tell him noob get better or just talk to them just like you have been friends with them for 3 years. DF isn’t for social interaction and rather have FF14 GM heavy hand than toxic crap we have on wow.