I'm on the same boat as a load of people here but I'll throw what my red flags are anyway.
Enforced Voice Chat - Now I actually love listening to conversations and I love speaking to people in voice chat mostly due to the fact I don't talk to people often, but I have limits. Sometimes I don't want to listen to people talking and I just want to listen to music/watch something while I'm farming and so forth. Having ONLY the voice chat as a way to communicate with other FC members is a no-no. I don't mind it being there if I can still talk to people in text format elsewhere though.Â
Distasteful leadership - This tends to go everywhere so I'll try and generalise it. It could be the attitude of the leader or officers or it could be the actions they do, but if I see something that gets me uncomfortable or really not pleased an alarm bell is going to ring with me leaving very quickly. It could be favouritism, it could be gender preference, it could be the leader having a terrible attitude towards something and people are just ignoring it. I just don't tolerate that stuff and it seriously ruins my fun the more I see it.Â
Free Company Cliques - I'm talking about Free Companies that roleplay in the house and barely do anything else and it almost always ends up being with other Free Company members. It starts off great, but then it just gets stale fast. Bubbling is awful for character development and seriously, you have the entire of Eorzea in your hands with all sorts of things going on and you want to hide in your house and do heavy roleplay in the spa? That's just sad.
Hugboxing Edvyn this name is perfect thank you - I usually don't say these kind of things, but Free Companies with the whole *wow gib evry1 hugz <3333* makes me want to stab them with a rusty spoon. It seriously angers me more than anything else in the world. No it's not kawaii as fuck it's ridiculously irksome. Stop it. I can tolerate almost anything, just not THAT.Â
"We're only roleplayers" Free Companies - I want to be able to do content non-solo and be able to roleplay when I'm not doing PvE/PvP with others. "Just RP" Free Companies is a massive nope for me. If you just want to be roleplay group with no in-game content running, make a linkshell. Some people actually want to enjoy the actual game with people and I am one of those people. I'm getting awfully tired of playing the game on my own and I really want to play with other people! This doesn't include "Primary Roleplayers" since from what I've seen those companies actually do help each other out with PvE stuff (sometimes PvP?).
Lack of story - Personal stories is one thing, Free Company story is another. I want to be in a company that has something going on the entire time. Not literally "I WANNA SEE EVENTS EVERY SECOND OR I'M OUT" but rather there is a story arc happening to the Free Company an I can see that happening. If I can't see it or it seems rather limiting to certain snowflakes then I'm out. No thank you.Â
...I'm so picky.
Enforced Voice Chat - Now I actually love listening to conversations and I love speaking to people in voice chat mostly due to the fact I don't talk to people often, but I have limits. Sometimes I don't want to listen to people talking and I just want to listen to music/watch something while I'm farming and so forth. Having ONLY the voice chat as a way to communicate with other FC members is a no-no. I don't mind it being there if I can still talk to people in text format elsewhere though.Â
Distasteful leadership - This tends to go everywhere so I'll try and generalise it. It could be the attitude of the leader or officers or it could be the actions they do, but if I see something that gets me uncomfortable or really not pleased an alarm bell is going to ring with me leaving very quickly. It could be favouritism, it could be gender preference, it could be the leader having a terrible attitude towards something and people are just ignoring it. I just don't tolerate that stuff and it seriously ruins my fun the more I see it.Â
Free Company Cliques - I'm talking about Free Companies that roleplay in the house and barely do anything else and it almost always ends up being with other Free Company members. It starts off great, but then it just gets stale fast. Bubbling is awful for character development and seriously, you have the entire of Eorzea in your hands with all sorts of things going on and you want to hide in your house and do heavy roleplay in the spa? That's just sad.
Hugboxing Edvyn this name is perfect thank you - I usually don't say these kind of things, but Free Companies with the whole *wow gib evry1 hugz <3333* makes me want to stab them with a rusty spoon. It seriously angers me more than anything else in the world. No it's not kawaii as fuck it's ridiculously irksome. Stop it. I can tolerate almost anything, just not THAT.Â
"We're only roleplayers" Free Companies - I want to be able to do content non-solo and be able to roleplay when I'm not doing PvE/PvP with others. "Just RP" Free Companies is a massive nope for me. If you just want to be roleplay group with no in-game content running, make a linkshell. Some people actually want to enjoy the actual game with people and I am one of those people. I'm getting awfully tired of playing the game on my own and I really want to play with other people! This doesn't include "Primary Roleplayers" since from what I've seen those companies actually do help each other out with PvE stuff (sometimes PvP?).
Lack of story - Personal stories is one thing, Free Company story is another. I want to be in a company that has something going on the entire time. Not literally "I WANNA SEE EVENTS EVERY SECOND OR I'M OUT" but rather there is a story arc happening to the Free Company an I can see that happening. If I can't see it or it seems rather limiting to certain snowflakes then I'm out. No thank you.Â
...I'm so picky.
