by far the community has been a positive experience. as someone who played wow for over 4 years i'll tell you this game is hands down better.

Sadly, I don't recall my server (it's one of the two Japanese ones though) and since it has to be a friend's list person... le sigh. Oh well :/

Why are people so butthurt? It's a good game, just some things can change.

Apparently your account has to be friended through FFXIV with the account that is inviting you already. Since I haven't played in so long that is not the case for me, and my friend is unable to send me an invite. I wanted to check it out too :(

Originally posted by Sarstan:

At first I want to go back. The game's world is beautiful, fleshed out, well polished, and gives those warm fuzzy feelings.
But then I remember everyone has their main maxed out in all jobs which makes a starting player useless and pointless to try being a part of a team since everyone else can do the role you have. Essentially everyone can do everything, which means everyone is useless to each other.
I remember going into dungeons and being expected to know how to run everything at min/max. Any slip up and you're booted. Or you get ♥♥♥♥ talked to. Joining player companies seem to have extremes of wildly casual with people who do very little or wildly competitive where you can't get your feet wet. New players are not welcomed. Not to say there's not a lot of friendly people. But they'll wave you off because they've got their own group they are maxed out with and play with all the time. The game leads to cliques.
I bought the first expansion and started to get into it. And that's when I gave up. I understand there's 150+ missions between typically reaching level cap in the base game and getting into the expansion content. I found myself starting to skip text because I didn't care. It was all mandatory and I wanted to get to the new content. When I had to go into another dungeon with people who were obsessed with min/maxing the whole run, I stopped. It hadn't been fun for a while, but I gave up hope of getting into the content I hoped would be fun again.
Next month I'm starting on a new journey in my life anyway and I'm preparing for it now, so for me this is horrible timing anyway. I'm not about to invest into this when I might get a few hours here and there each week I'd log in. No one would want someone who is that unavailable in their company anyway.
I'm hoping next time there's a FF MMO that they'll lock characters to a class at least.

you actually can't be more wrong about the playerbase lol. The playerbase here is one of the most open and inviting communities out there in gaming. Yeah, you will find the odd number of people who are jerks, but that's even in life. I usually don't respond to things like this but I really had to in order to negate this persons attempt at butchering the reputation of this game. It is indeed one of the most epic mmorpg experiences you can have. Early game is a bit slow mind you, but other than that, once you get past the realm reborn content, the story is exquisite and the classes all feel really impactful and thematic. You can certainly have your opinion. You can like the game or not, but the points about the community, are just factually wrong.

this event is the best event in world history (sais herra) get a friend or secret lover into discord with you and pass trial that you cannot fail. and then kiss eachother

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need invite