What's up with the constant Free Company Invites?

[Premier666]

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?

[ﾚﾌﾄ]

Yeah, I got some random ones too when I solo'd in my first steps in 2.0. Its not that annoying but I always waited for them to say something to me in chat like, "Wanna join my FC? We're real friendly and like doing ****** ". Then I actually might've considered joining.

I disagree with some of these replies though. Recruiting through chat is totally cool and some FCs put some thought into it. Honestly, there arent a whole lot of ways to recruit people other than getting the word out. I know back in 1.0, I used to give invites to people I liked in my EXP parties.
But all we really have now are Dungeons, which is probably the worst place possible to find FC members, specially with 8 party groups concerned with just speed running for gears or completetion.
Because of this, FC recruitment will rely on this system.
Everyone who wants to join one will eventually find one they like among these random invites and the ones who keep declining will just have to deal with them over and over.

FFXIV has some serious cameradie issues and its not very sociable (Look how painfully obvious it is in this thread). The best thing you can do is find a FC with some as fast as possible.

Honestly, I didnt accept those invites either and waited quite a while for someone to come along and pick me up during the Lightning Returns event. I can wonder is why it took so long, I've always tried to make it a point be friendly because I don't like the way the community is going.

It doesnt really even matter though, my FC died and now I became master by default after 2.0. It was a slow death because most people were busy doing their own thing because the game caters to solo play so it was hard for people become rooted together.

Meanwhile, my LS I joined in 1.0 is full of players that played XI and they're always talking on chat. I consider myself lucky to be a part of it. Easier to recruit too, since you don' t have to consider if they're already in one. After that, its just a matter of winning them over by just being active in general.
(Woah, this post became wordy, lol)

TLDR: I actually like the random invites to some extent. It actually brings the players together.

[Archous]

This is why instead of sending random people invites to my Free Company, I send them a personal message asking if they are new to the game and if they would like to join our guild to help them get started. Like a help us help you sort of thing. So far, I've had more positive results doing that, and have gotten some really great people into our guild rather than sending random invites. :)

[Premier666]

Originally posted by Archous:

This is why instead of sending random people invites to my Free Company, I send them a personal message asking if they are new to the game and if they would like to join our guild to help them get started. Like a help us help you sort of thing. So far, I've had more positive results doing that, and have gotten some really great people into our guild rather than sending random invites. :)

That is a much better way, really. If I had gotten an invite like that when I was starting out, I'd probably have accepted.

Now that I'm level 50 without a GC, though, I got too used to being anti-social :p

[Yorae Moogle]

Once when I was playong on message me and asked me if I was intrested in joing their FC. I probably would have said yes, expcet that I have some frined who also play the game and we all were woking up to start our own here. If not for that I probably would have accepted the one who asked instead of all those random invites that pop up all the time.

[Ashabel]

I just started a Lancer on Adamantoise and got hit by three FC invites before I even reached level 2. None of them introduced themselves or explained anything about their company, though one guy shouting ads for his FC right outside the Carlile Canopy revealed to me that he's simply inviting everyone FC-less who is passing by.

His FC was apparently focused on running high-level FATEs, which makes you wonder why he'd invite a level 2.

Solo player or not, that was immensely annoying.

[Ryk_Feral]

Originally posted by Archous:

This is why instead of sending random people invites to my Free Company, I send them a personal message asking if they are new to the game and if they would like to join our guild to help them get started. Like a help us help you sort of thing. So far, I've had more positive results doing that, and have gotten some really great people into our guild rather than sending random invites. :)

You have my respect.
Recruiting that way improves the reputation of a guild in my eyes and many others.