so i installed ff14 to socialize and maybe find a gf. the gameplay itself is a bit boring since i'm still grinding the story quests but at least the story itself is starting to get interesting.

the social aspect on the other hand... first of all i have to exert some serious effort not to shit post too much or start random arguments in the newbie global chat. which doesn't always work out. 4channel really ruined my brain. thanks rapeape. but other than that i've had lots of positive encounters when starting random conversations with people around me. the only problem is i get flustered way too quickly when i even get a wiff of a female writing style. this might prove to be a problem in the future as i have to battle between my desire to start shit for no reason and running away with red cheeks.

how were your recent mmo experiences?

I bought a watermelon at the store, it was pretty nice

i want to kiss alisaie on the lips

cool didnt read
i installed FF14 to wank to alphinauds tight elf bussy

>>713220987 (OP)
dont play modern mmos if you want to socialise
everything from the moderation to the social systems themselves is built to get in the way of genuine and healthy socialising. it's made for people to treat others as npcs and soullessly jump from instance to instance with each other.
if you want to make genuine friends, and lifelong bonds that transcend the shared interest in a single game, you'll need to look to FF11, EQ, and other such games of that era

>maybe find a gf

>>713221047
in an mmo?

>>713221103
how do you know it's not her brother? no seriously they look identical to me

>>713221108
you should read it though otherwise i won't read your post

>>713221195
what kind of friends? are they exclusively male and sweaty? in both senses

>>713221336
yeah that's what i said

>>713221195
i met a good friend who is still one about 8 years ago on this game and he met his gf of 5 years on the game and they're getting engaged irl

>>713221523
>they look identical to me

their lips don't

>>713221594
my dick doesn't feel any difference
this is the kind i have to hold back on

>>713221523
>what kind of friends?
all kinds. best friend met his wife on XI, I met all kinds of people on EQ from sweaty nerds to mostly normal people. Weirdly enough I have heard so many stories of people meeting their wives/husbands on XI that before I gave it a try I thought it was purely some kind of dating chatroom with some vestigial game aspect to justify the subscription fee.

>>713221832
huh honestly didn't expect that. i'll keep that in mind then. thanks.

though for now i'll keep playing ff14 and see how it goes. my end goal is to join a guild so i don't mind if the rest of the game is too streamlined

>>713220987 (OP)
>installing ff14 to socialize
It's like jumping inside a pool to stay dry, it's one of the most antisocial MMOs in existence

>>713220987 (OP)
>so i installed ff14 to socialize
You are going to get groomed by a tranny. Uninstall and get the fuck out of there.

>>713220987 (OP)
>so i installed ff14 to socialize
This is a lot harder to do than you would think.
The only people from 14 I even talk to are in my free company (guild) and even then we mostly talk through discord and not in the actual game.

>>713222223
lol

>>713222268
well i do plan on joining a fc and as i said i did have lots of positive social experiences talking to random players. i mean unless you have a better alternative in mind

>>713220987 (OP)
>playing xiv to find a gf

Huge mistake, my friend.
You're better off talking to men in person even if you're ugly. You'll unironically have a higher chance of meeting a somewhat normal human being and not the biggest slut across the country.

>>713222138
any alternatives?

>>713222602
First off all, stop looking at online spaces for romantic relationships.
Even if you meet someone willing to play ball the long-distance relationship friction almost always kills any chance of a future you may have with said individual.
You know what? Go outside. Crazy thought I know and probably the last thing you want to do but you've got to do it.
Online spaces are not it for finding a gf not even close. At most you'll be just another orbiter in a dozen.

>>713222602
I dunno, I recommend trying private servers of old mmos or small mmos that have tight knit communities and you'll have an easier time finding actual friends, it'll be a minefield of autism but it's doable

>whiff of a female writing style

you sound like a massive fucking faggot

>>713222223
Off By One Kenobi

>>713222578
>>713222698
went there. did that. maybe i'll go out again and join a pen and paper or board game group one day but for now i want to chill at home. and i don't intend to have a long distance relationship. but thanks for your concern and i'm 90% serious

>>713222746
the autism kinda worries me. i think i need to become a bit more normal again but i'll keep that in mind if my current plan doesn't work out

>>713222970
oh yeah? prove it and post dick coward

>>713220987 (OP)
you can troll retards and retarded mentors so easily in the sprout chat
best time i had in that game i wish i could go back into beginner chat without being a faggot mentor

>>713222223
Anon is correct, the girls you find in the game are not girls. Lots of gay men also role play in the game to try and trick sexless straight men. Ask me how I know.

>>713222222

>>713221103
With you? She would never.

>>713223115
rude

>>713223146
i know but apparently this mmo has one of the highest percentage of actual female players and i'm going to shoot my shot even if it means i have to work my way up. what chance do i have against a real women when even a tranny can drain all my blood from my brain?

>>713223317
i'm sure she has the hots for my hyur

>>713223317
that's what makes it so hot

>>713223476
There's only one man she wants

ffxi raids
>flopped
cosmic exploration
>flopped
crescent isle
>flopped
post dt msq
>flopped

It's officially over

>>713223035
You don't want help you just want attention.
Kill yourself.

>>713220987 (OP)
You're only going to find trannies

>>713223354
>what chance do i have against a real women when even a tranny can drain all my blood from my brain?
Bro you've got to stop being such a pussy, get some dumbells and lift some weights, read Machiavelli the Prince, read Plato's Republic, read the Count of Monte Cristo.
The ones who find girlfriends through this game are so rare that when it happens it's notable, you'd have more luck chatting up your local retail shop girl.

>>713223354
>what chance do i have against a real women when even a tranny can drain all my blood from my brain?
All trannies are porn addicted freaks who groom people in an attempt to stave off their suicide. These people are real life demons

>>713222746
Stop telling zoomers about this retard

>>713223817
truth considering it's an mmo

>>713220987 (OP)
>bought FFXIV to find girlfriend

>>713223792
not once in this thread have i ever asked for help idiot. i'm sorry i couldn't jerk off your savior complex boner but believe it or not i'm more than capable of doing things on my own

i made this thread because i like attention btw

>>713223817
i'll filter through all of them one cock at a time. surely they can't all be men right?

>>713223827
sorry i'm not an impressionable youngster anymore so spare me your tate routine

>>713223879
i'm not a zoomer thoughbeit

>>713224031
and i'm going to do it again. and again. and again. maybe i'll stop after that but i'm gonna try it for a few months at least

So what's the current state of XIV these days? I haven't played since Endwalker.

>>713224070
>sorry i'm not an impressionable youngster anymore so spare me your tate routine
You think I'm in my late teens/ 20s? If you weren't so terminally online associating everything to a boogey man, you'd realise that this is pretty standard advice from one guy to another guy.

Let me ask you, has your current attitude worked for you? Has your being a little pussy worked in getting a partner that doesn't hate you?

>>713220987 (OP)
If by gf, you mean obese troon, then you're gonna eat good brother.

There's a lot of chicks who play MMOs in general. Elder Scrolls Online being one example. I would never try to get into any sort of relationship through MMOs but it's alright to be friendly with them.
The only MMO I've played without a lot of female players was EVE Online, but that is an autistic spreadsheet simulator in space.

>>713224031
Hey, it's one of the few games with an actual biological female population. Granted, those bitches be fucking crazy

I'm sure playing as a femra I'm asking for trouble but I hate when people message me going "hehe nice outfit" because I know they're just trying to weasel their way into seeing if I want to erp or not

if you find a decent FC then that's all the socializing you need
most people in this game are complete fuckwits to be completely honest

>>713224202
yeah it's standard advice and entirely worthless. my attitude is my own and i've seen in what kind of relationships people like you end up with. but maybe i'm wrong who knows. i don't know and neither do i care. bitch.

>>713224238
can they at least have a normal BMI? asking for a friend

>>713224252
ESO was on my list but i decided to go for FF14 since i don't trust bethesda to make pretty characters and i believe women like pretty characters

>>713224353
i couldn't imagine ERPing in a game that has your personal information (payment data) and keeps chat logs

>>713224429
eh they seem nice at least. people regularly say hi even in those beginner dungeons that have longer cut scenes than actual gameplay time and i think that counts for something

>>713224070
Dude you're actually such an insufferable faggot.
Fuck off. Nobody would want to hang out with you if they had a choice and it's not hard to see why.

>>713224727
ok then fuck off

One time I was sitting in limsa listening to some fucking concert or something with a decent audience and then someone gifted me a flower.
I'm an autistic fuck and was too scared to talk, but I still think of it sometimes.

>>713220987 (OP)

>>713220987 (OP)
sugar apples are great

>>713224774
oh yeah i also saw a concert in limsa! it really left an impression on me

>>713224819
ok i know i said "this might prove to be a problem" but it's more like figure of speech. i'm not asking for help or advice. there is no problem. and even if there were i could solve it myself. i'm a big boy you know

>>713220987 (OP)
>so i installed ff14
ok. it can be awesome for a new player, still, with the right mindset
>to socialize
oh no....
>maybe find a gf
not like this, bro
>the story itself is starting to get interesting
where are you in the story?
>only problem is i get flustered way too quickly when i even get a wiff of a female writing style
i say this with the utmost respect and with 12 years experience with this game. 75%+ of the 'women' are men. ff14 is one of the designated safe spots for trannies, unironically, and none of them sound like or look like women at all. pure el creatura fuel
>how were your recent mmo experiences?
watching my favorite game genre die a slow death is a special kind of torture

>>713224961
>where are you in the story?
i'm at the point where we broke out the blondie out of the imperial prison. i hope imperial genocide is next for what they did to my favorite cabbage

>>713224961
>i say this with the utmost respect and with 12 years experience with this game. 75%+ of the 'women' are men. ff14 is one of the designated safe spots for trannies, unironically, and none of them sound like or look like women at all. pure el creatura fuel
so you're saying every 4th female character is an actual woman? this might not be impressive but i come from communities where no female dares to enter

>>713224961
I'm not in support of tranny scum or anything but I would unironically say he's better off with a tranny friend than with a biological woman.
The whores who play 14 are some of the fucking worst I've ever encountered. They're insane as fuck and not in a fun way. The drama they start the shit they sling and the passive-aggressiveness they employ. Dude, they ALWAYS have a simp army unlike the troons because people catch on to the trannies more easily and once the truth is out they lose like 90% of their power but women are the opposite the ones who are constantly posting pics of themselves and shit are the worst shit to hit the game ever.

Simps are genetic trash, yes. But women who play 14 are fucking disgusting monsters. It's not even close they're horrible creatures.

>>713225229
i'm pretty sure i could take on all her simps and save her from her harlot ways

>>713224621
I can tell immediately why you're alone, you're an incredibly passive aggressive, nasty person. You think that's attractive? Even if you talk with a girl in game she's going to immediately come to the same conclusion when you drop the facade of the 'nice guy'.

>>713225229
Yeah honestly this, there might be a lot of women playing this but most of them are BPD or some other flavor of mental illness.

>>713225331

BUNNYBROS????

>>713225389
sorry i don't intend on being passive aggressive idiot fucking retard bitch ass nigga faggot

>>713225418
in a fight of course

>>713225451
You've never had a gf before have you?

>>713225517
no :( can you please help lil poor ol me get a nice and cute gf? pretty please! i'll even suck your balls and clean your asshole with my tongue! just... just impart SOME of your pussy having wisdom on lil me k?

>>713225217
you're gonna fall in love with the game at this rate if you already like it
>so you're saying every 4th female character is an actual woman?
pretty much. you will find the real women eventually, and probably faster if you befriend a couple trannies first
>>713225229
this is also true. the trannies are great players and are good friends, but if you wanna get your dick wet, you have to deal with the self-cutting crazies. if you are college age this is probably a turn on tho, so go for it

captcha: SHANK

>>713225451
I can tell you're a SEAmonkey from how you type.

>>713225593
No.
I cannot help you.
I doubt anyone can.

>>713220987 (OP)
>first of all i have to exert some serious effort not to shit post too much or start random arguments
sasuga 4chan-kun
>i get flustered way too quickly when i even get a wiff of a female writing style. this might prove to be a problem in the future as i have to battle between my desire to start shit for no reason and running away with red cheeks.
you'll fit right in

>>713225634
>you're gonna fall in love with the game at this rate if you already like it
genuinely looking forward to it! it's been a while since i had a game click for me that i could play for long periods of time without getting bored

>>713225637
european chad sorry bro

>>713225725
it's alright. i never asked for help in the first place. remember? it was all in your head my friend

>>713225798
>you'll fit right in
nice

>>713220987 (OP)
>maybe find a gf
oh so you like trannies
>the gameplay itself is a bit boring
i can read three books by the time GCD is over

OP, download mare lamentorum, if you ever see a character like this on a syncshell then it's a genuine biohole.

>>713223784
maybe if you say it 50 more times it'll finally be true
i trust you sonny

>>713225921
... You literally asked him to help you, though? Do you read your own posts? Lmao.

>>713226024
ignore this faggot
do NOT download mare synchronos
never download it

>>713226024
i'm going to be honest with you but that doesn't look like the character a desirable woman would own. i'm trying really hard not to judge or at least keep it to myself but i have some stereotypes from those second life trolling videos and this is hits too close

>>713226110
it was sarcasm. sorry sometimes i forget to add an /s like it is customary for you reddit folk. btw this was an insult. i insulted you. i don't intend to come of as passive aggressive. this is active aggression. rawr

>>713226248
It's what XIV is all about!
>>713226267
>i'm going to be honest with you but that doesn't look like the character a desirable woman would own.
It's the kind of character normalfag women create, yes the same ones on Second Life.

>>713222223
>DO NOT REDEEM THE XIV IT IS THE TRANNY
>TRANNIES ARE GONNA GET YOU SAR DO NOT REDEEM
Desperate shit man.

>>713226313
>It's the kind of character normalfag women create, yes the same ones on Second Life.
huh. i might need some time to process this

>>713226267
>this is active aggression. rawr
this is either a trannie larping as a straight guy, or you will transition within 5 years. absolutely guaranteed. i dont make the rules

>>713226024
that is the most vile and retarded thing i have seen this week

>>713226267
Yeah. You'll actually fit right in on XIV. It's full of fake as fuck retards like you who get aggressive and start lying out their ass once someone catches them out.
It'll be a pretty hostile environment where people start drama all over but that's what you're all about.
You're a classic narcissist insecure piece of shit.

>>713226469

I completely tapped out of this game after Endwalker. I heard Dawntrail is fucking garbage and I can't stomach another stormblood-type MSQ.
Plus I realized that if you're not already confident irl then playing MMOs will NOT help you get friends and there are better games out there to play in singleplayer.

>>713226527
Why do you mod your game to look like this?

>>713226580
I don't, other people do.

>>713226619
Why do you save these pictures to your computer then?
Is this hot to you or something?

>>713225429
Not being able to wear Matoya's Hat was the one thing stopping me from being a bunny boy.
Finally I'm free
I am me

>>713226392
>Desper-AAAAAACCKKKKKK!

>>713226709
It's funny and I like to have a good time with my pals on 4chan /v/.

>>713226619
>im not an el cretura
>i just like collecting el creturas
>i am an el cretura connoisseur

>>713226718
WHEN I CUM
IN MY HAND
WE LOCK EYES AND THAT'S WHEN I REALIZE

>>713226753
It's all in good fun.

>>713226458
sir it's a word made out of letters. it can't force you to cut off your dick. sir no please! noooo! you really didn't have to do that ma'am...

>>713226490
at least you stopped calling me passive aggressive

>>713226718
This is who I was meant to be.

>>713226551
It was 100% SE's fault. They had a pretty good ride with this game so long as the MSQ was a base-level of quality to keep attention away from the glaring issues with its core systems.
Once the MSQ pillar fell, so did the rest of the game's criticism.
They could have avoided this and enjoyed more piss-easy support from their braindead audience if they just didn't get such an untalented and shitty writer to take a dump all over the narrative.
XIV has been shit since before endwalker if you'd asked me, but it just wasn't as blatantly clear as it was once even the cultists had to wake up.

>>713220987 (OP)
Ff14 helped me lose existing friends

>Mobile version has no furry races
I'm sold, I don't care the monetisation I'm all in for no Viera, no Hroth and no scalies with the Au'ra.

>>713226818
>At least you stopped calling me passive aggressive
The faggot said, in a passive aggressive way.

>>713226753
i desperately need an emet-selch edit of elon musk being told to kill himself while streaming

Social stuff was actually better before cross datacenter travel.

>>713221195
I've literally never seen FFXIV moderation do anything except harass people who either talk about plugins in game or stream with plugins enabled and obvious on their screen
Just don't talk about plugins at all and you'll be fine

>>713226752
That's a strange fetish, dude. But if it makes you happy, who am I to judge?

>>713226896
i'm not falling for this bait!

>Hearing the English VA for Elidibus and Yshtola in Chrono Odyssey and how good they sound pissing me off to no end how wasted the voice talent FF14 is.
They could have voiced all the Praetorium raid story back in Endwalker for example.
Fuck I hate how cheap SE are with their talent and this is why they have such huge potential and piss it away by penny pinching.

>>713226983
My fetish is actually slutty traps tho.

>>713227026
You have fun with that, nonny.

>>713226827
I wasn't that deep into it anyway, basically everything worthwile past the update-long unreals required a static and even queuing up for those unreals with randoms made me really fucking anxious and I was just not having a good time there because of that. I would be much more into this game if I had a dedicated group of people to play with.
Even if I come back right now I'd have to afk in Limsa since I lost my home and that's more terrifying than any raid I've attempted.

>>713227014
I'm sure if you were to pay for a remaster they'd give you that.

>>713227426
A remaster of FF14?

>>713226818
sir PLEASE it’s just unicode characters woven into a semantic abstraction, bro PLEASE don’t—oh god he’s getting the scissors—OKAY I TAKE IT BACK, YOU’RE VALID, PLEASE KEEP YOUR DICK

also lmao at you thinking I’d stop being passive aggressive just because you called it out. I’ve evolved. I’m passively passive now.

>>713225395
If you're trying to meet women playing the game, yeah no shit. High-end self-selects for the mentally ill.
Just at cons and stuff though? All the girls I've met at Fanfest or random anime cons who play the game are super normal. Most of them are super thirsty for clout too so if you're even half decent at the game you might get laid if you're above average, but that's because the average for MMO players is really low.

it doesn't matter.
most players are still happy with the game.

>>713222223
Sounds tight I'm gonna keep playing

>>713226313

>>713228768
wow, you an just run into shit like that by standing around in the city? wtf?

>>713228839
If you join a public mare syncshell, yeah.

>>713228869
a what? is that part of the game?

>>713228897
It's a mod that syncs your personal character mods with other people so you can all see how your modded characters look.

>>713228897
no lol
it's an opt-in mod tool that syncs your mods with other peoples'
mods are 100% clientside

>>713220987 (OP)
>so i installed ff14 to socialize and maybe find a gf

>>713228965
so it's not built into the base game then
>>713228980
ohh, okay. that makes sense. thanks

>>713220987 (OP)
>and maybe find a gf.
pure fucking retard

do something you enjoy FIRST
THEN, if you meet a girl, you share your interests and grow close, THEN you decide if she's gf material

doing "activity" just to meet women is pure cuck stuff

>>713228995
i knorite? its the most pathetic thing i read on /v/ all year.

>>713221545
I wonder if you and I have the same friend, lmao.

>>713220987 (OP)
Drop FF14 after you beat Endwalker. Dawntrail is irredeemable dogshit, unironically worse than 1.0 of FF14.

not really related but does anyone have the webm of the guy walking around and making everyone disappear by adding them to a shitlist? i thought it was funny

is there a plogin that declines all chest drops holy fuck

>>713231713
you vill take the cogs and springs

>>713231751

as a lala i'm glad that the 30 people who played hrothgar for some reason can wear hats, thanking them for letting squeenix get away with it for 5 years and giving them piles of sub money and fantasias

maybe they'll fix things like pixelation, clipping and such now

definitely asked cocoli

>>713232717
i dunno who that is, but she sounds smart

>>713220987 (OP)
You need a bit more experience before interacting then ;3

>>713232832

As someone who has never played the game, yes. The story is bad.

>>713232652
>moneymaker game slowly crumbles and gets worse as the parent company siphons the revenue to fund vanity projects and retardation instead of reinvesting in the future of the game and taking its players for granted

gay hroth sex with hats on

>>713220987 (OP)
My 11 year old account got permabanned after I called Trump a chad for surviving his assasination attempt