New player on cerberus EU

[Bald Wolf]

Hey Everyone I am a new player and just finished the trail got to level 20 Conjurer and I am tempted to go full time sub. However the one thing that is stopping me from doing this is the lack of community.

I got to level 20 and never really seen anyone speaking in the game and felt more like a single player game most of the time. I didn't see any guild recuitments or even any chat. now it could be the fact I was on trial and didn't have access to these channels. Or is there something I am missing as if I am going to play a MMO i want the social part of the MMO

[Greyjoy's Anatomy]

I have to agree, the chat is extremely barren. Granted I'm only lvl 10, but in every other mmo ive played its active 24/7. There must be separate channels or something.

[BloodravenD]

A majority of the playerbase is on ps3 and ps4, so you won't see as much talking as say a MMO that's only on PC. From what I hear writing in chat is a hassle on console, so that might be why it seems like chat is barren to you.

[Big Boom Boom]

You just haven't played XI, that's all. This might be a cultural thing, FF players aren't used to spam general chat with yo momma joke or whatever. Chat will generally go on Linkshell (private channel) instead of public channel.

[Bald Wolf]

I never mention yo mama jokes and I don't know what mmo you play that spammed yo mamma jokes.



Also I know about FC and linkshells i have played FFXI the issue I see with this game is that for a new player it will appear barren soical wise and a very closed community. As no one is willing to chat in the open about anything or LFG they rather do it in FC (private channel) or linkshell.

A new player will not be invited into these channels or know about any to get into them so he will be stuck in the general chat which no one takes on. Hoping that in one of the duty finder dungeons he does he might meet someone on his server that might let him in the chat.

Atleast in FFXI you had a mentor system that allowed you to ask a verteran in game a question and hopefully he might have introudced you to some other players.

Not say FF a bad game but it's a very closed community if everyone sticks into there own private chats

[Asphe]

8 linkshell channels (all active simultaneously) + Free Company channel + Content Finder that lets you match-make without having to /shout LFG

There is slightly more banter / yo mama jokes / etc on the NA/EU servers... but otherwise most /shouts are <t> <pos> or in certain areas, advertising a PF / non-CF/DF event.

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As for stupid jokes via /shouts in MMOs... pretty much every one I've played except FFXI/FFXIV. I think the community is a bit quieter. The only time it was different was when FF14 launched ... or it was RMT / gold farmers.

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I do see your point about it being rather barren or quiet. Quite different from say, Neverwinter or ESO. I kinda prefer it that way though. If folks start chatting in general chat, I'll /blist 'em. I've got 9 channels to monitor...

Perhaps it's the server you're on. On Balmung in town, there's always someone 'talking' but on Aegis, almost noone unless an event just started.

Plus it's also kinda rare to actually meet someone from your server in the Duty Finder. The /whois function is also not that newbie-friendly and player levels are mostly 50 or 'soon to be 50'. Queue times for non-tank/healers are getting longer and longer.

[Zero Honour]

Not really much selling or LFG in FF14, however I see plenty of guild ads on Cerberus. Which is a great server name BTW. Reminds me of Eve where because of robust guilds you had little random chat, other than people trying to scam rookies.

You'll find more chatter in the 35+ zones, but even so, as mentioned a lot of folks keep it to their own channels, largely just because they dont really have much to say to strangers. Lomina seems to have more people chatting generally while they craft or wait for queues.

As far as mentoring goes, dont be afraid to ask - just the other day I had someone ask me a random quetion about why my low level class had a mount fighting with him and ended up chatting for a good 20m about the multiclass system, mounts and how to use a mount in combat.

[north]

It's one of the things I absolutely hate about the game. The community is boring and lame as hell

Only very rarely is it possible to get some banter started in mor dhona but even then most of the FF14 nerds are extremely precious and get upset. "Blacklist!!! BL BL reported" is pretty much the most common thing to see in /shout

Not sure what the population is like on Cerberus but on every other EU server if you insult the French you'll suddenly see the chat filled with angry defensive frenchies rofl

[SniperWolfMGS]

When i started playing i had a small group of friends and we party chatted on the 360. Then they quit and i moved my toon off cerberus to goblin and yes it was very quiet in the 3 cities. Finally i just started talking randomly in shout till people replied and founf myself in a FC. Its just one of those games where if your too shy to start the conversations, they never start at all.

[clappa]

Shout is not that populated, most of the chatting goes in Linkshells, Free Company chat and Party chat. Shout is almost exclusively used for hunts. It's just how it is in FF14, doesn't mean there isn't any community, so don't be discouraged.

If you decide to sub give me a tell, I'm on Cerberus as well, and I can get you in a decent FC :)

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