please fix the friendlist

[Ardeth]

Here are my issues with it:
1) Slow loading, like OP said. Thanks to DC-travel and the buddy system's bugginess, half the time I can't even tell if certain friends are online because it loads them as offline or greyed out until I take that second step and click the little circle icon next to their name. This also makes cleaning out my friends list difficult; every time I delete a person, the entire list refreshes. It takes ages to remove multiple people.
2) No simple way to communicate a message to everyone on my friends list at once. Maplestory had a buddy chat channel. Anything you said in this channel was pushed to everyone on your friends list, and vice versa. It was crude but effective at what it needed to do. XIV has nothing like this. If you want to ask everyone on your friends list if they're interested in doing content, there's no way to quickly do this outside of making a crossworld linkshell (multiple, really) and begging all of your friends to join.
3) If I add someone to my friends list but regret it later, removing them on my end does nothing on their end. They can still see when I'm online, where I'm at in game, etc. This shouldn't be a one sided thing. If I remove you from my friends list, I should vanish on your end, too.

100% agree with all of this.

[LilimoLimomo]

ok first off all take that loading or whatever there is on the friend list on out

(the monkey's paw quivers)

[Menriq]

Seeing as you can't even send DM's in instances, I would be willing to bet it's a lot more complicated then people think.

[Ardeth]

Seeing as you can't even send DM's in instances, I would be willing to bet it's a lot more complicated then people think.

What's crazy is that back in 2004, you could do it in Classic Wow. So I have no idea what broke Kmart devs SE has, but their chat functionality is bad. And I'm not talking Bnet. This predates that. I remember when Bnet came out. You got a mini pet if you opted in.

[Boblawblah]

You all have friends?

[Menriq]

Oh I don't disagree. I just meant it would be more complicated trying to muck around with what's there (since I would imagine it's part of the huge tech debt that has built up from 1.0) then simply "Just do what they are doing" is all.

[Ardeth]

Oh I don't disagree. I just meant it would be more complicated trying to muck around with what's there (since I would imagine it's part of the huge tech debt that has built up from 1.0) then simply "Just do what they are doing" is all.

But more over, most people don't even talk anymore anyway. So I'm not sure expanding them even if you could would change that. This game is easily the most anti-social social game I have ever played. I just want people to stop having me permanently on their friends list.

[localareanetwork]

theres no reason for it to have a cap of 200 after dc travel, or for it to be one way (me deleting someone but still showing up on their list.) the friend list in this game is barbaric