Quote Originally Posted by CidHeiral View Post
Well I can't speak for your experience but that hasn't been my experience with the game at any point. I can arrive at any populated area right now and start chatting with people and making friends. It's not difficult.
From my 11 years of playing ff14 no one seems to want to talk or be social unless it's the rp community or it at least seems to have been that way when discord became the norm to talk. Before discord became a thing people would always talk in game and have random conversations which don't seem to happen anymore unless I'm just unlucky.