I can understand the feeling. Most of the time when I attend events like Grindstone/Runestone, etc, a half dozen of us from the same FC/LS all go together and meet up with friends there who we've met up with before, so we might already have some 6-8 other RPers to pay attention to at the time. I know I've missed some outside messages directed at me, and had to go back and find them and reply to them. This isn't because I don't want to RP with anyone outside my circle, however, I just missed it.
Part of the problem with FF14 and no chat bubbles is that, especially in an event, you can be subjected to some pretty intense scrolling from all the other /s and /em going on. Because of that, I know I (and I'm sure many others) focus twice as hard on just looking for familiar names in the chat spam so that I don't miss it. It also means I'm usually tuning out messages from players I'm not familiar with.
So it's not your fault, and it's probably not because people are actively just trying to ignore you. Try sending a tell to someone you want to RP with to inform them you want to engage with them? That way they can just tell you up-front if they're too busy, or otherwise know to look for your messages.
Part of the problem with FF14 and no chat bubbles is that, especially in an event, you can be subjected to some pretty intense scrolling from all the other /s and /em going on. Because of that, I know I (and I'm sure many others) focus twice as hard on just looking for familiar names in the chat spam so that I don't miss it. It also means I'm usually tuning out messages from players I'm not familiar with.
So it's not your fault, and it's probably not because people are actively just trying to ignore you. Try sending a tell to someone you want to RP with to inform them you want to engage with them? That way they can just tell you up-front if they're too busy, or otherwise know to look for your messages.
