Please Fix Free Companies

[DapperGent]

So I'm a fairly new player. I played for a few months just as many years ago and came back recently. I've been enjoying the game so far but one thing has been grating on me. You can look up specific Fellowships by interest but there's nothing to look up or research Free Companies. And if there is, it's well hidden.

When I first started playing I was scooped up almost immediately by a random Free Company. Which was fine. They were great people and if I could remember the name I'd happily try and return to them. However, this time around I was looking for something more specific that I just can't seem to find.

Most MMOs have some sort of guild search feature or, at the very least, a dedicated recruitment channel. FFXIV does not. From what I've seen, you either have to wait around in a hub for a random invite or you need spam that you're looking for a Free Company in a channel in hopes that someone will pick you up.

If I could make a suggestion it would be to include a Recruitment system, which Free Companies can opt into or out of through FC management. Give it a tag list similar to that of Fellowships (is the guild for PvP? Raiding? RP? Socializing? Leveling? A combination of them?). Can also have a section for what the guild is looking for (jobs/roles, activity, progression, etc). Also have the FC be manually relisted every month so dead FCs don't populated the system.


Alternatively! If I have just completely missed the feature, please let me know so I can scrap this post.