Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
I also can't do anything about the fact that I'm on a dead data center, can only play much later in the night/early morning...
Yes you can. You can make a character on a different data center, or transfer your character if you feel you've invested enough time in it that you don't want to "restart" with a new one.

or that every FC I've ever been in on Maduin just felt like I was invited to help farm company credits.

It's not entitlement to realize I was lied to with regards to the game's content or community, and that ultimately FF14 has been the most anti-MMO I've ever played.
You weren't lied to. As you yourself just pointed out, you picked a "dead" data center, which means you're interacting with the smallest of crumbs compared to the entire community. I play on Aether-Gilgamesh, and I've had the complete opposite experiences. The FC's I've been in have been hopping, plenty of FC-run fun events, people helping each other with roulettes, and so on. We get Hunt trains going with over 100 people fairly often throughout the week, which I haven't experienced in *any* other MMO I've played.

You can change your experience.