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8/3/2025, 6:09:55 AM
There's a more nuanced thing so I'll share it here, but aside from everything else discussed/trolled a billion times:
The quality of new players/recruits in FF14 has vastly changed since 2021. Hear me out. If I went recruiting people for an FC about 10 years ago, the pool would be different. Let's say I tried to recruit 10 sprouts. Like 8 would be replying to /t right away and just join and 6-7 of those 8 would be sociable and team up.
Fast forward to 2023-2025:
Send tell to 10 sprouts
This already fails, only 2 will reply to /t so I have to go physically stand at the sprout in C. Shroud or etc and wave to them and /s and such
Maybe 3-4 of the sprout of the 10 can even figure out how to reply
Some just stand there and seem confused, some target me and run and jump but never type, some speak on /s after 5 mins of just moving around me even after I've told them how to use /say or alt+r
Of those 3-4 sprouts all of them will say they're new to games. Maybe 1 sprout every few days is a gamer.
Of those sprouts almost all will rapidly admit to me they are high anxiety, and also queer, and also shy.
So ten years ago I could just go grab 10 people like picking up adopted cats in a box. These days when I recruit people its like showing up to your local therapy office or clownworld gathering. I get people who are scared to heal, scared to tank, scared to dps, but still want to play the game. I get people who say they're lonely but never type into chat ever unless their name is said by someone else. I get people who we tell several times we'll help them/show up for anything then I watch them queue 4 man titan alone just ten minutes later. Then when I ask them about why they don't bring anyone else, eventually, I get the same sort of answers all the time. "I felt like I would just be bothering you" "you're all high level and seem busy?" "I was shy to ask I felt guilty" NO MOTHERFUCKER WE SAID LIKE TEN TIMES WE ARE BORED JUST INVITE US WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
The quality of new players/recruits in FF14 has vastly changed since 2021. Hear me out. If I went recruiting people for an FC about 10 years ago, the pool would be different. Let's say I tried to recruit 10 sprouts. Like 8 would be replying to /t right away and just join and 6-7 of those 8 would be sociable and team up.
Fast forward to 2023-2025:
Send tell to 10 sprouts
This already fails, only 2 will reply to /t so I have to go physically stand at the sprout in C. Shroud or etc and wave to them and /s and such
Maybe 3-4 of the sprout of the 10 can even figure out how to reply
Some just stand there and seem confused, some target me and run and jump but never type, some speak on /s after 5 mins of just moving around me even after I've told them how to use /say or alt+r
Of those 3-4 sprouts all of them will say they're new to games. Maybe 1 sprout every few days is a gamer.
Of those sprouts almost all will rapidly admit to me they are high anxiety, and also queer, and also shy.
So ten years ago I could just go grab 10 people like picking up adopted cats in a box. These days when I recruit people its like showing up to your local therapy office or clownworld gathering. I get people who are scared to heal, scared to tank, scared to dps, but still want to play the game. I get people who say they're lonely but never type into chat ever unless their name is said by someone else. I get people who we tell several times we'll help them/show up for anything then I watch them queue 4 man titan alone just ten minutes later. Then when I ask them about why they don't bring anyone else, eventually, I get the same sort of answers all the time. "I felt like I would just be bothering you" "you're all high level and seem busy?" "I was shy to ask I felt guilty" NO MOTHERFUCKER WE SAID LIKE TEN TIMES WE ARE BORED JUST INVITE US WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
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