Quote Originally Posted by caffe_macchiato View Post
Try joining one of them and see how it is when, out of 150+ people, only <10 are online at primetime.

It's time for us to realize that we've been living in an echo chamber. It's not normal for the game director to tell us to play a different game. It's not normal for an MMO to struggle in social activities. It's not normal for FFXIV players to genuinely loathe having to play their own game. Most of us have very, very low standards. The player base just doesn't seem to enjoy FFXIV like they do other games. And while one can certainly opt to play old content, or make do with what we have, players just simply aren't in the mood for that. That's why they take breaks for months at a time. It's time for Square Enix to fix that by providing more incentives for group content instead of making everything single-player like the shareholders tell them.

Or you can play other games, your choice. I'm sticking with FFXIV.
Nothing here is normal and that's probably the best thing about this game and why I choose to stick around. I've been more social here and made more connections than other MMOs because there's more freedom to do so. I'm not wasting energy sitting around in a glorified chatroom hoping someone will see me advertising my class in the sea of LFG messages.

It's great to have the option to play at one's leisure and not just be forced into unsubbing because no one's around to do anything, especially the older content. What to farm old EX or savage content for a mount? You can find people to do that. Nothing feels forced, but that's exactly where we would be headed if they re-introduced the idea of FC activities. People can already to plenty if they put their minds to it.

At the end of the day, folks like you have nothing concrete to offer in the way of ideas, only complaints about how things are. Maybe you should channel that energy into improving the social situation in your neck of the woods.