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Premier666 Mar 23, 2014 @ 4:44pm
What's up with the constant Free Company Invites?
I mean, I can't spend 5 minutes inside a major city without being invited to 5 different FCs that I never even interacted with.

Are free companies just desperate for new guys or what?
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Ryk_Feral Mar 23, 2014 @ 4:52pm 
Yeah happens to a lot of people. For some reason there are many that try to invite anyone at all they see who isn't a part of one.
It's annoying to soloists like me and to many people who just don't feel like joining one for no reason.

First time on in awhile today, and even though it was for less than an hour I got 6 invites.
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Chrish Mar 23, 2014 @ 5:08pm 
I joined my old LS's FC from 1.0 upon returning to FFXIV, so I can't say that I've been exposed to the problem, but I'll gladly add my 2cents to the discussion :P

I think it's an issue. It's annoying enough that you keep getting tells about RMT-offers, but blind invites to FC (I'm assuming they are blind?) just seem downright rude to me. A social aspect of the game is thrown out at you without even a friendly tell asking if you're even interested? I wouldn't even concider joining. Clearly they're a little desperate to boost their numbers.

Heck, I may be a little eliteist, but even the people shouting about their FC (giving you "the ball" to contact them) seem a little... unattractive, because they clearly don't screen membership at all. But I guess for players who just want a FC for socializing, it can't hurt to at least TRY one of those - at least they're not harassing your personal space/chatchannel.
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Ryk_Feral Mar 23, 2014 @ 5:16pm 
Agreed. It does seem rude. Not just to the person receiving it, but to people already members of that FC.
It's belittling in how it represents the FC as near worthless since anyone at all can join without even knowing anyone at all. I don't mean using connections to join or crap like that.......but being invited because the FC wanted them instead of anyone at all. I can understand someone recruiting in an area asking people to tell THEM. I can accept that much.

Of course I'd much prefer getting an invite from someone I either was just in a party with, teamed up with in a fate, or just plain was wating time around with. Or even the time I joined one before (left it after 2 months though) where I was invited because someone saw me handle a mob solo using tactics as a Tank.

I agree that if I were to join a FC, it would because that FC seemed like it would be worthwhile to join.
Last edited by Ryk_Feral; Mar 23, 2014 @ 5:18pm
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Akagi Mar 23, 2014 @ 5:34pm 
I honestly see no reason not to just accept the first invite you get to a rank 8 FC. More often than not it comes with an EXP bonus on top of no more invite spam, and when it comes time to join a FC that you actually want to join you can just leave.
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Premier666 Mar 23, 2014 @ 5:39pm 
Originally posted by whmchrish:
but blind invites to FC (I'm assuming they are blind?)

yeah, they're blind invites. I'm just like, crafting or walking around, and suddnely, I get the invite out of nowhere. It's all sorts of annoying. I mean, it feels like spam.
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anonymous316 Mar 23, 2014 @ 6:42pm 
Best part about being in a FC is you don't have to wait an hour to face a primal as a DPS, you can just ask someone from the FC to tank for you and tanks never have to wait more than a few seconds.
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Ryk_Feral Mar 23, 2014 @ 7:15pm 
Originally posted by anonymous316:
Best part about being in a FC is you don't have to wait an hour to face a primal as a DPS, you can just ask someone from the FC to tank for you and tanks never have to wait more than a few seconds.
That varies by the FC. Some will and some are more like social clubs.
You're more likely to find a good one that fits you through normal means (checking the forums for recruitment, checking with people you partied up with, etc...).
Many of the good ones will have a link to their own site and will flat out explain what they're goal is and they help their members.
heh.....one person I know actually signed up with one.......found out later they were spamming those invites because they all pretty much sucked.
Last edited by Ryk_Feral; Mar 23, 2014 @ 7:17pm
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NightFlyer Mar 29, 2014 @ 7:08am 
It never hurts to join the FC and check out what it's about. I wouldn't bother unless it's already max rank. Worst case scenario, you just leave. If you decide to stay though, you get free buffs from the company actions and you no longer get all those invites.

Shortly after launch, after getting sick of the random invites, I made the decision to just accept the next random invite I got with a sufficiently cool name. That got me into The Spoony Bards, a rather large (several hundred at the time) social FC. There were not many skilled players in there, but it got me introduced to some of those who were, and when some of them decided to jump ship and form their own endgame-oriented FC, I went with them.
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Freyar Mar 29, 2014 @ 8:21am 
I ignore random FC invites. I much prefer to play with those I get to know first.
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Ryk_Feral Mar 29, 2014 @ 8:25am 
Originally posted by Freyar:
I ignore random FC invites. I much prefer to play with those I get to know first.
Good approach. It's more likely to find a good group for info and help that way.
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kaenneth Mar 29, 2014 @ 11:37pm 
Well, it's a catch22. The game isn't a solo game, and you can't make friends without being friendly.
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Ryk_Feral Mar 30, 2014 @ 9:21am 
Originally posted by kaenneth:
Well, it's a catch22. The game isn't a solo game, and you can't make friends without being friendly.
True. I'm a soloist myself and I find it fine for the most part when outside of dungeons.
But it's not a true catch22 since it has that duty finder to put together a party (it's cross-world as well I think). That allows people to find others for a quick dungeon run.
Besides, being friendly with guild members doesn't matter if noone really does anything with the others.
Surprisingly yesterday (or was it the day before) I was shopping around on a marketboard when someone messaged me asking me if I wanted to join their guild. I nice not that old guild with less than a dozen members. Ended up joining it. I'm not very active though (I've actually been away from the game for a few months).
Made a beta tester happy with that one.
Last edited by Ryk_Feral; Mar 30, 2014 @ 9:22am
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anonymous316 Mar 30, 2014 @ 9:43am 
Duty finder can be hit or miss though, you have to hope your teammates know what they are doing whereas if you're in a active Free Company you can put together a pretty good party who know what they are doing.
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Ryk_Feral Mar 30, 2014 @ 11:34am 
Originally posted by anonymous316:
Duty finder can be hit or miss though, you have to hope your teammates know what they are doing whereas if you're in a active Free Company you can put together a pretty good party who know what they are doing.
That's where the problem comes down to what people are saying about the majority of the spammed FC invites. They're FCs in name ONLY. They don't actually DO anything. Basically a FC of ghost members.

That's why majority of people (myself included) ignore those spammed invites. I do agree that putting a party together from people you actually know IS better.
Last edited by Ryk_Feral; Mar 30, 2014 @ 11:37am
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Silvus Sol Mar 31, 2014 @ 2:47pm 
The solution to unwanted invites is to accept the invite... and then be a sarcastic ***hole.

"Oh gee, thanks for spamming with the invite until I accepted. I don't know if I could have lived another day without joining your super duper FC."

"Seriously though, are you just lazy or desperate for memebers? Not even a 'Hey' or 'Hello' just stuffing the invite in my face like porn on a Vegas street corner."

"I didn't want to join this. Go **** yourselves."

Not only will it get you removed from that FC quickly but it will discourage random spam invite behavior.

Warning: This post is not meant to be taken seriously.
Last edited by Silvus Sol; Apr 4, 2014 @ 11:44pm
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