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1) Generally speaking people stick to one class. I subscribe to the "one class, one craft, one gather" mindset since those don't have a lot of overlap. It's not unreasonable to think of a paladin who's handy with an anvil and can swing a pickaxe (OH LOOK I PICKED ALL OF MINE) but if you compare that to the eighteen year old Warrior who is also a Summoner who is also a Black Mage and is a Dragoon you get a lot of "...and when exactly did you find the time to master all of these arts?"
2) XIV is plainly separated by zonelines, and you can't see across them. Generally speaking, draw-distance is law. Chats seem to be a bubble centered on you, with /say and /yell having different reaches and /shout being zone-wide, regardless of size.
3) On Balmung the whole game's pretty damn RP friendly. There's typical MMO etiquette in play (don't assume everyone's IC, it's polite to send a tell if you're not sure if someone's a roleplayer, etc) and it's fairly difficult to hang out in a city and not find roleplayers doing their thing. Edit: Oh, and yeah. Furniture can be sat on, and every character's got multiple sitting/standing poses. There's also a decent range of emotes, varying in usefulness and silliness. There's like, six dances.)
FINALLY THAT SMILEY IS A TONBERRY THEY ARE THE BEST CREATURE IN FF EVER
1) Generally speaking people stick to one class. I subscribe to the "one class, one craft, one gather" mindset since those don't have a lot of overlap. It's not unreasonable to think of a paladin who's handy with an anvil and can swing a pickaxe (OH LOOK I PICKED ALL OF MINE) but if you compare that to the eighteen year old Warrior who is also a Summoner who is also a Black Mage and is a Dragoon you get a lot of "...and when exactly did you find the time to master all of these arts?"
2) XIV is plainly separated by zonelines, and you can't see across them. Generally speaking, draw-distance is law. Chats seem to be a bubble centered on you, with /say and /yell having different reaches and /shout being zone-wide, regardless of size.
3) On Balmung the whole game's pretty damn RP friendly. There's typical MMO etiquette in play (don't assume everyone's IC, it's polite to send a tell if you're not sure if someone's a roleplayer, etc) and it's fairly difficult to hang out in a city and not find roleplayers doing their thing. Edit: Oh, and yeah. Furniture can be sat on, and every character's got multiple sitting/standing poses. There's also a decent range of emotes, varying in usefulness and silliness. There's like, six dances.)
FINALLY THAT SMILEY IS A TONBERRY THEY ARE THE BEST CREATURE IN FF EVER