It's not really my intention to guilt trip people. Apologies if it seems that way - I usually wouldn't resort to such a low blow but I couldn't figure out how else to raise the point after repeatedly biting my tongue. Obviously I'm not going to name and shame since that's against the rules but...it's just food for thought and people are welcome to do with that what they will - whether it's ignoring it, contesting it or working to remedy it.
To answer Berrod's query, no - I don't consider him to be one of the culprits. I'll admit, I've been on the look out for his character in-game but I've never stumbled across him so I certainly can't blame him for that!Â
As for people being busy and only human, that's totally understandable. It's not an attack: I'm just raising awareness that it can be pretty disheartening when someone ends up caught in a net and unable to 'break in' to a fresh social circle to expand their list of IC and OOC contacts.
In regards to the FC I'm in now I simply made an application and sank my teeth into role-play the moment the opportunity became available. Again, I'm not really starved for role-play due to my FC but expanding beyond it has been where issues have arisen.Â
As for where I've tried to get stuff up and running? Pretty much everywhere, really - Ul'dah has been a major target but so has various areas throughout La Noscea. The latter interests me more than the former simply because my character concept gives more weight to him being there than lingering in Ul'dah.
I generally avoid major events because I'm more of a fan of character driven interaction on a much smaller scale. I'm eager to cross paths with people's characters at random and then head off out on an adventure. I never struggled to do that back in WoW yet in FFXIV's community it proves to be largely ineffective.
As for 'harm' I'm personally not losing any sleep over this. I just like sinking my teeth into a good debate. I do have some concerns that it's having a negative impact upon other people though - especially given the tone of that Miqo'te's post early on in this very thread.
Edit: Lots of posts happened whilst I was writing this reply so apologies if I missed anything!
To answer Berrod's query, no - I don't consider him to be one of the culprits. I'll admit, I've been on the look out for his character in-game but I've never stumbled across him so I certainly can't blame him for that!Â
As for people being busy and only human, that's totally understandable. It's not an attack: I'm just raising awareness that it can be pretty disheartening when someone ends up caught in a net and unable to 'break in' to a fresh social circle to expand their list of IC and OOC contacts.
In regards to the FC I'm in now I simply made an application and sank my teeth into role-play the moment the opportunity became available. Again, I'm not really starved for role-play due to my FC but expanding beyond it has been where issues have arisen.Â
As for where I've tried to get stuff up and running? Pretty much everywhere, really - Ul'dah has been a major target but so has various areas throughout La Noscea. The latter interests me more than the former simply because my character concept gives more weight to him being there than lingering in Ul'dah.
I generally avoid major events because I'm more of a fan of character driven interaction on a much smaller scale. I'm eager to cross paths with people's characters at random and then head off out on an adventure. I never struggled to do that back in WoW yet in FFXIV's community it proves to be largely ineffective.
As for 'harm' I'm personally not losing any sleep over this. I just like sinking my teeth into a good debate. I do have some concerns that it's having a negative impact upon other people though - especially given the tone of that Miqo'te's post early on in this very thread.
Edit: Lots of posts happened whilst I was writing this reply so apologies if I missed anything!
