I hate raiding, I hate free companies

[Stormpeaks]

I agree with the overall sentiment honestly, I played WoW for over 12 or even 14 years iirc, and I have never struggled to make friends, however in FFXIV it's an absolute hassle just to find any at all, and even when you do the typical friend you get will contact you once every few weeks (if even that) when they are bored and all their raiders friends are offline and you'll be used as a last resort, it's really a crappy feeling honestly.

Raiders in general repeat the same content over and over again despite getting no reward from it once they have had their loot, simply to fill the void of content that this game has, this also leads to groups of friends just breaking apart, the game in general is just absolutely void of content or there is content but its disliked by most (criterion,variant etc..)

I cant count how many times in 2 or so years I've played this game I argued with people that responding once in a while or saying just "hi how are you?" would be nice, but then I simply get told that "i have other friends that need my attention too i cant be there for you 24 7 and talk with you daily" or they are just always doing content and then log out so there is 0 interaction.

It really does feel like getting friends is absolutely impossible a lot of the time, and most of the time I just give up and sit at my house doing nothing afking watching youtube, because every time you meet someone new, even if you do tell them that you want friendship, you'll basically never get any, or just get used as a last resort after the person's entire friendlist has gone offline and there's only you left and all of a sudden they remember you exist.

I'll never forget someone that I used to talk to, they were telling me every time we'd cross paths that they were my "best friend", yet they'd never talk to me, say hi or ask how I am in a month, sometimes even up to 3 months, but yet somehow they were my "best friend" apparently, and the fact I was telling them that this it was not friendship was me trying to create drama, according to them.

I think the definition of friendship in FFXIV is just absolutely messed up in general, because at least in my eyes, talking to a person once a month is not friendship, that's just "oh i know this person, cool", that's not friendship.