(10-06-2016, 08:12 AM)Gegenji Wrote: Haha, got in on that quick, huh? As I mentioned, there's an entire thread on the Official Forums that just has Friend Codes posted up by people hopeful to get those feathers and other goodies from Inviting someone.
It did take me a while to start exploring the FF14 website, especially since it inexplicably locks me out of most of the content if I log in with a trial account, yet works perfectly if I log back out.
Now that I'm a Proper Subscriber, though, I've been looking through all that they have to offer.
I was a bit reluctant to look through the official forums, though. MMO official forums tend to have well-deserved negative reputations; my own experiences have shown that the best I can expect was a careful selection of subforums that weren't terrible. Usually Gameplay subforums should be avoided at all costs, due to people being very opinionated on how their characters should play. Anything PvP-related contains too much trash-talking. General Discussion is usually the worst, simply due to size. Lore is usually all right, except for the inevitable handful of people who insist on their One True Interpretation, especially if there's any nuance or grey areas to the game's morality system.
I don't know if FF14 has the same issues.
In any case, now I have three characters on the same server, of whom I will probably play only one. I did take the opportunity to watch the different intros to the three starter cities, which says a lot about their respective personalities. Limsa Lominsa and Gridania don't seem too bad, apart from the outside forces like pirates and beastmen, but Ul'dah introduces itself by having the guards attempt to mug you.
Also, there will always be a garrulous old trader fellow who has a name starting with "Br", and two young(?) Elezen who don't talk at all.
Back on my Arcanist main, all these random fainting spells cannot be healthy, convenient flashbacks or otherwise.
