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Mahoni Kazami

Lady of the Fetch

Excalibur [Primal]

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Do ya wanna be friends?

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Since coming back, I've been thinking about my friendships in-game, past, and present.
It got me thinking, is it easier to make friends when you are a little sprout, eagerly seeking for friends?

Eorzea always felt different than Vanadiel. In FFXI, you were forced to make friends in a way, waiting hours for a party, you were really going to invest time with them, get to know them. There was no Facebook or social media for connecting. When I came to FFXIV, I played a bit on my own and felt so lonely, and bored. So I reached out to a group on FB and very quickly met a whole FC of people.

I still look back on that Free Company as my favorite. Long defunct now from a crumbling saga at which I was in the center, I suppose, I look back on much of it with nostalgia and fondness. These were the best friends I ever made in the game, people I spent hours laughing with, and learning how to play with. They were so welcoming and kind and friendly and a very close-knit group. Many of them are in a re-formed FC and sometimes I see them, still together, and feel... well, jealous and sad at what was lost and will never be regained.

To be honest, I've never made friends like that in-game since. My next Free Company was wonderful, and we had some good times together, but as people and time does, things changed, people left and the dynamic shifted.

Now, I'm in a small, not very active FC with a couple of people I met in-game but also am now friends with IRL since we're from the same state and live a couple of hours apart. But even they are not as active right now and even if they were, are much more focused on end game.

I guess all this is to say, I miss having game friends. I miss having people to run dailies with and clear new things with. And, how do you keep meeting new people? Why does the meeting of new friends seem to fall off after some undetermined number of years playing?

Is this a personal thing? Maybe I'm too leery, too shut in, too shy to be outgoing. Maybe I feel like everyone already has their group and no room for someone new. If I made a new character on a new sprout, would I make new friends again?

Mahoni Kazami, signing off, but if you see me on Excalibur, feel free to say hi. I'm open to new friends <3

Comments (1)

Vesta Neptuna

Ultros [Primal]

I would but different datacenters and time zone would be a huge issue. Good luck, take the iniative like youre doing now. I learned that a bit late.
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