Without a real life friend...

[Loony BoB]

Of course!

[Pike]

I've always been an MMO solo-er. No shame. There was a while about eight years back where I was big into raiding and guilds in WoW and it was fun, but after a couple of years it burnt me out and now I pretty much only do solo stuff, or maybe stuff with my fiance.

I'm treating FFXIV much the same so far (only been playing for a week or so though at this point) and enjoying it greatly; if anything FFXIV feels more like a "single-player game that happens to be online" than WoW does. Sargatanas was full when I tried to roll on it so I picked some other random server where I know absolutely no one and it's workin' out great. I wound up in some random friendly FC if I want to chat but mostly I ignore it. Soloing an MMO is kind of like going to the arcade but playing by yourself... sometimes you just like the atmosphere, even if you don't have a "friend".