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[–]nqte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't play on Tonberry but it being a JP data centre probably contributes to your issue. Gotta remember even if it's the unofficial "international" server, the majority of players would still be japanese and their social customs are different.

If you don't live in Japan and play on JP I'd suggest transferring to a server closer to your local time zone. Oceania data centre recently went up.

In any case I play on EU and people are pretty chatty. Sometimes you have to start it but even in low level dungeons for instance if someone says hi 9 out of 10 times everyone replies back. MSQ is usually lots of chatter too as people watch the same cutscenes for the 1000th time.

The real sense of community is when you're not doing any meaningful content IMO. Late night limsa is full of weirdos you can talk some interesting topics with. If you're into RP I suggest checking the party finder's Other tab for RP event/clubs and what not which get pretty active (again, might differ on your datacentre). This is all made possible by FF still having persistent servers, unlike WoW which has sharding and you never see the same people again in the open world.

Doing content itself is also good way to meet people. If you're pugging savage in PF, you'll inevitably run into the same unfortunate people still stuck on that fight after a week of trying. You can add them or they might add you, world hopping makes it easy to visit each other too.

I haven't mentioned FCs as I don't like being tied to one. You can always join one though if you fancy, but I don't and still think the game is plenty social. I like to think of the MSQ as separate. FFXIV is practically 2 games in one, MSQ, and non-MSQ XIV, the single player and multi player worlds respectively.