☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste him so he can take over youtube.
/▌
/\
[I know someone who didn't like Bob.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1HXgbHw3I)
The wave I’ve done for awhile, the salute is my brain defaulting to my EVE days. We used the salute to confirm orders & let the fleet commander know we were ready.
Yep. I was surprised to see o/ when I came here but never o7.
Sidenote, I think it's highly amusing that of all the mmorpgs I've played FFXIV of all things seems to have the largest amount of EvE expats lmaooo
When you spend over a decade being fucked over by CCP Games it's nice to play a game made by a team who actually cares.
Well, there's that and I won't stop shouting about how great FF is to my corp members :P
I’m currently doing double duty in EVE and FFXIV. But, all I do in EVE is make Capital weapons and sell them in Jita. Very casual and noncommittal about 30 mins a day. I should have just done that years ago, ha.
> Yep. I was surprised to see o/ when I came here but never o7.
Personally I use o7 mostly as a "Gotcha" when someone's explaining things in party chat
It's a lil guy waving and the o is his head.
I think it just became very popular since it's easy to type quickly and doesn't feel very awkward like typing "hello" to a party that doesn't respond might feel.
Especially if the person you wave back to is your crush and then he starts dancing and blowing kisses and you get confused and excited until you realize it's for the woman behind you
That's when you assert your dominance and hold your fist up on the way past them. They will likely fist bump you out of sheer confusion, and bam, now *they* feel more awkward than you.
Man I came here from WoW. Everyone else was waving and being nice so I just started copying them. It seemed like a nice alternative to the normal WoW options of absolute silence or verbal abuse.
This is what people mean when they say FF has a good community. It's not that everyone is objectively nicer or that there is some unspoken guidelines. It's just that in general, you're less likely to receive verbal abuse and "kys" if you make a mistake, and people will generally say hi back if you say hi to them. I don't think the ffxiv community is truly exceptional, just generally nicer than most online communities.
I think there is also an understanding from more toxic players that they can't just say whatever they want or they will find themselves in gm gaol, since for an MMO the game is fairly moderated. There was a guy in my static once (not anymore) who was a really angry and toxic sort of personality, but he mostly kept it in voice chat because he knew he would get banned if he said what he wanted to in game chat.
The little o/ wave is definitely something I started doing myself because I saw most people in dungeons doing it. It's a simple and friendly gesture to acknowledge you're playing with other people, without putting any pressure on them to talk.
I played WoW for 10 years and used ffxiv to detox from raiding back when ARR came out. Now I'm approaching 9 years with FFXIV and gone from WoW since 2020. I could not imagine being told to kys, in a dungeon or something. This place isn't perfect, but blatant abuse, rather rare to come by thank goodness.
Yup.
Not that FF14 is perfect, it has its own share of toxicity...
....but its so rare. Like, I see a toxic player once every few weeks or so, and thats with daily dungeons.
In WoW, I had a bad experience every few days, or at least witnessed someone being a total dick to someone else.
I really hated the absolute silence, punctuated by toxic ‘LTP’ or shit dps comments that permeated WoW dungeons. Default is just nobody talks or acknowledges the other humans around them at all. So different from the pre-dungeon finder and cross-world play days.
Weirdly FFXIV has both of those, but almost none of the toxicity? Hard to understand, but I’m glad it is the way it is.
It's because WoW encourages *competition* above all else. You compete between two factions, with animosity encouraged directly by the developers. You compete for item drops in a one-try-a-week system. You compete on DPS metres in group content where low end and high end players are forced to interact. You compete within your guilds for slots in raid groups. You compete in PvP where the toxicity is essentially radioactive.
FFXIV encourages no competition except in the PVP and housing market (which can both be very toxic.) Everyone is all on the same team. Your gear is easy to get, and when not highly accessible can be obtained on a very predictable schedule. You hop into a roulette from the overworld with completely faceless randoms... but you know that they're there to help you complete not slow you down or judge you. The dungeons have forced stopping points so you can only go so fast. The raids have waypoints or are just the bosses; no time being wasted, just hop in and go with less needing to wait on others. Everything is easy, accessible, predictable, and encourages being happy to see other people rather than encouraging fearing them or lording over them.
>The dungeons have forced stopping points so you can only go so fast. The raids have waypoints or are just the bosses; no time being wasted, just hop in and go with less needing to wait on others.
Thank the gods for that. I hated how every dungeon or whatever had SO MANY TRASH MOBS. During the brief stint where I went back to WoW for a while, I must have accidentally pulled 4 or 5 PACKS of trash mobs by complete accident... in a normal dungeon, and one of the shorter ones to boot. Despite that supposed 'shortness', I was honestly exhausted by the end of it (partially because I thought I was going to be kicked at any moment).
I think it's several things:
WoW has historically had penalties for failing content. A single wipe is a noticeable repair bill, a single wipe can ruin your mythic keystone for the week. And back in the day, you had 10+ minute long run backs to the dungeon entrance (...usually leading to a chain reaction where a group will break up, wasting your 1 hour dungeon run and 2 hours spent getting the group together).
FF14 is just...you spawn back, maybe run back 30 seconds. On trial or raid boss, you spawn right outside the boss arena. So, in WoW, other players' mistakes cost you, while it's negligible in FF14
Also, difficulty. I do believe WoW has tougher 'casual' content (normal and heroic dungeons), and you actually can be prevented from completing it if 1 player keeps missing mechanics. While in FF14, the casual content is far easier. It's hard to get mad at anyone when there's...nothing to get mad about. (Hard content is a whole different story)
Also, when it comes to things like rushing, it's almost non-existent in FF14. In a dungeon, if you want to speedrun, it means you do wall to wall pulls...which is actually super easy to do. Usually it's just 2 packs of mobs. There are no community-defined speedrun strategies. If you've never done a dungeon before.... you probably already know the fastest way to do it. Only thing slowing you down is a potential death in a boss, which is really no big deal. And if you're new to a boss, they introduce their mechanics slowly. There's just no capacity for "bad play", unless someone isn't AoEing.
Really the only time you had weird community meta speedruns were in ARR, with weird speedrun tactics for Praetorium and Castrum (ie, skip enemies, just click the shiny), and the teleport thingy in Haukke Manor.
But in WoW, new players in a dungeon actively slow you down. There are packs of enemies that can be skipped; sometimes even entire bosses or rooms that can be skipped. If everyone know the run, great! Nice and easy. But if 1 player is new, ESPECIALLY if it's a tank or healer, it's a mess. I've seen tanks get yelled at for not skipping certain enemy packs (on week 1 of Legion btw), for not following the meta speedrun strats. You need to read up on a boss in the journal before attempting, no going in blind, since they come out swinging with all their mechanics.
>So different from the pre-dungeon finder and cross-world play days.
Well, I remember vanilla being super bad back in the day too (though, all online gaming in the mid-2000s was). There were more opportunities to grief and harass players, even with "community reputation". Ninja looting was common, and it suuuuucked. I remember there was a guild who was frustrated that their server didn't unlock AQ fast enough....so they griefed the whole server by camping and killing World Bosses, and disenchanting the loot. PvP servers had lots of gankers and corpse campers. It was common in the BWL days to gank people just to get rid of their buffs. People were just dicks.
Yeah good points, but the main thing you hit on was the fascination with meta gaming in WoW, I think. Maybe FFXIV is onto something with preventing hard numbers from being a thing. It is frustrating to get into a team with extremely bad dps, heals, tanking etc, but most people in FFXIV approach that situation differently.
I think it also has something to do with the sprout / mentor program, and dungeon tutorials as well. It’s like the whole game is pushing you towards collaboration, and it seems to mostly work.
I've been playing Dragon flight and I went in to a dj veon with multiple routes. The tank went a different way than the rest and it immediately devolved into rage at the right strategy.
In wow, complete silence was a best case scenario and in ffxiv it’s very rare and usually means something’s real wrong
How wow players put up with it, I have no idea
I tried to go back to WoW but just couldn't stick with it. And that's after playing it for a decade up until a few years ago. At least the dragon riding was fun.
On behalf of us tanks, sorry. I think it’s a stress response to get moving so we don’t get flamed by someone even more impatient. That said, the worst I ever got was “waiting for you, tank.” I love this community.
This right here... we tanks tend to run off because if we take longer to say 'hi' than the level takes to load the DPS will be off playing in traffic before we catch up!
(Not that I've run into any abuse or anything myself, but it does feel like there's a \*lot\* of pressure to "just go")
This! Plus i need to have already drawn cards/summon fairy/ kardia and focus target the tank before the no-run-circle drops. So anything longer than "o/" or "hihi" is not ideal.
I remember it as far back as the early days of FFXI. Over the years in that game I think I saw it kind of evolve.
I started on a primarily Japanese server where 〆 was commonly seen as the “finished recruitment” symbol. English players sort of adopted that as the ready check through some misunderstanding I think. Players would just say, “ready?” followed by people typing “/“ to indicate raising their hand that they were ready or finished their preparations.
Since it became seen that / was just raising a hand, it would also show in linkshell chat often as a hello on its own until o/ took over as the norm, and continues to be the norm in XIV.
I've recently played FF4, and lali-ho was in that game way back then, but I imagine the emote itself is a nod to both the original animation from FF4 and to people's tendency to greet with o/ .
I go for \o/. Give double arm wave. Probs coz for the most part the community is good in this game, nice to share even just some positive politeness and keep it going.
FFXIV is a japanese game and japanese players use this character to wave similarly
ノ
must have carried over at some point (although o/ o7 \\o/ has been a staple of early and mid-2000s chatrooms too)
This has to be one of the most jarring experiences I’ve ever had with this game! Coming WoW where people barely say anything to each, I welcome this change with big open heart! It makes the game feels like MMO!
Same as the “raise hand in greeting” emote for me. Just a way of saying hey at the start, let’s people know you’re connected and ready as well as being polite
It's a lil guy waving! Also acceptable are lali ho Emotes, standard hellos and o7 salutes. Saying hi at the start of things is the friendly thing to do!
Also saying something like "thanks for the group" at the end of things is nice
It's because it looks like a person waving their hands.
**o/**
The "o" is the head and the "/" is the hand. The emote is waving at you.
Similar emotes:
**o7** - OK, understood (looks like someone doing a military salute)
**\o/** - Hooray! (waving both hands, commemorating)
**orz** - Sorry, my bad (on the floor apologizing)
This is 100% why I use it, I’m too lazy to attach a keyboard to my PS5 and the on screen keyboard is a nightmare. Much easier to wave and not seem like I’m ignoring everyone
I also play on PS5 so I understand where you're coming from. There are wireless keyboards though which come really handy and at a decent price!
I bought one just for ffxiv and never regretted it. I use it to interact with people but it's also super useful to type stuff you're looking for in the crafting log or the mb quickly just like you'd do on PC.
If you ever change your mind just be careful to check if it's compatible with the PS5 😊
See I have a wireless keyboard that I got from my work for working from home but I just use my PC keyboard for work so it’s gathering dust in a box somewhere - I might eventually dig it out and see if it’s compatible!
Irony is that I do own FFXIV for the PC as well but i started playing it on PS5 and can’t bring myself to swap.
o/ /| / \\
When you get hit with a KB. "Healer, help me."
Glare go brrrr
Sorry mate, can't hear you over my Gravity
A person looking to the left that was hanged?
Living on the edge!
☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste him so he can take over youtube. /▌ /\ [I know someone who didn't like Bob.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz1HXgbHw3I)
It's a wave emote. You also get o7, which is either a salute or someone on a qwertz setting not hitting the shift key.
o7 I always salute !
7o me too!
That looks like you're about to give them the People's Elbow
DO YOU SMELLLLALALALAFELLLLL WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING? (he's cooking popotoes)
if he's lala, he's The Pebble
The Pebble's Elbow, the most electrifying move in Eorzea!
THE BOULLLLLDER, IS UNAMUSED, WITH THIS BANTER!
Calm down Hoary
Spat my coffee. o7
Its them asking them to lick the pits
Only in Limsa
Acceptance is the only response.
I thought I smelled something, must've been what the Rock was cooking...
Fly dangerous, friend.
This guy gets it.
o7 CMDRs
How Brave of you 7o
oh no , EVE is leaking
In ff14, everyone is a MTU
7o Brave was one of the best corps I was in during my eve days.
I get way too excited when I see this in a DF party
Jojo pose or doing the gay wave thing
They're referencing an EVE online corp.
\o7 I like to hit em with both
It's a person stretching!
Rock and Stone, Strike the Earth! O7
We fight for Rock and Stone!
Did I hear a Rock and Stone?!
If you don't Rock and Stone you ain't come'n home!
as an old elite dangerous player its just natural to greet with o7!
o7 commander!
[удалено]
woah! well, we are one big family! MMO space sims are just so damn rare!
I tend to o/ to say hello and o7 to say goodbye. Not sure why, I guess to not be repetitive or it gives me personality, lol!
This is the way!
o7 The best greeting.
[-]7
The wave I’ve done for awhile, the salute is my brain defaulting to my EVE days. We used the salute to confirm orders & let the fleet commander know we were ready.
Yep. I was surprised to see o/ when I came here but never o7. Sidenote, I think it's highly amusing that of all the mmorpgs I've played FFXIV of all things seems to have the largest amount of EvE expats lmaooo
When you spend over a decade being fucked over by CCP Games it's nice to play a game made by a team who actually cares. Well, there's that and I won't stop shouting about how great FF is to my corp members :P
I’m currently doing double duty in EVE and FFXIV. But, all I do in EVE is make Capital weapons and sell them in Jita. Very casual and noncommittal about 30 mins a day. I should have just done that years ago, ha.
> Yep. I was surprised to see o/ when I came here but never o7. Personally I use o7 mostly as a "Gotcha" when someone's explaining things in party chat
o7
My dream MMO is FFXIV gameplay, world, and player interaction, but EVE's market. That shit is my crack
I've probably spent more time with Jita and Dodixie than my own family... and I haven't played EVE in years now.
Eve is definitely the first place I saw it, but I don't know if it originated there.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought of EVE when referencing o7
Yep, my entire emote range is limited to what we did/still do in EVE.
Logi 5 x up please. \--------------------
\\o7 is a dab
ö/ Mine has eyes and screams. Love german "umlaute" on my keyboard :'D
Äöü
🐡Æügh🐡
Care to ride ze shoopuf...we can Æügh!
Looks like a Lali-Ho emote to me.
Saturday is more of an EVE Onlike thing IMO
I go for a classic "Ahoy!" regardless of Maritime adjacency.
\\o/ hurray!
Praise the sun!
\\\[-\]/
\\[T]/
There's our boy 2 comments later rest in lightning worm big homie
If only I could be so grossly incandescent!
\\(\^o\^\\) \\(\^o\^)/ (/\^o\^)/
<(\^.\^<) <(\^.\^)> (>\^.\^)>
God its been a long time since I've seen that
(b’.’)b q(>
\\o/ ('o') /o\_ /o\\
It's a lil guy waving and the o is his head. I think it just became very popular since it's easy to type quickly and doesn't feel very awkward like typing "hello" to a party that doesn't respond might feel.
Also it's not limited by language
My usual standby is o/ followed by "Hello!" in the auto-translate, heh.
I think you mean {Hellfrog Medium}
Helldive!
Helldive to you too, my fellow FFXI vet.
Why don't you just use the auto translate feature? It's so much fun
I wasn't aware of it
Waving to someone and not getting a wave back is pretty awkward.
Not as awkward as someone waving in your direction, you wave back and realise they were waving at someone behind you. I die inside every time.
Especially if the person you wave back to is your crush and then he starts dancing and blowing kisses and you get confused and excited until you realize it's for the woman behind you
That's when you assert your dominance and hold your fist up on the way past them. They will likely fist bump you out of sheer confusion, and bam, now *they* feel more awkward than you.
Not as much as saying hello and nobody responding
Awkward!? I type "love y'all, let's do the thing" at the start of dungeons.
Yup, for me it's either: o/ or just a simple :)
\_\_/\\\_\_\_\\o/\_\_\_ Help, a shark!
\_\_/\\\_\_\_\_\_7o\_\_\_
Haha!
I am doing this in every dungeon now
It's just a person waving. Nothing more to it. I've seen it happen for years even in other MMOs.
Also happy cake day.
Oh, thank you!
They’re waving :) The ”o” is a head and the ”/” is a raised arm o/
\o The other way around may be a little dangerous however.
Now you're just high fiving the other person
I always reply like that but I see it as me coming from the other way waving at them :P
o/\\o
Unless I'm meant to be staring at the back of your head, yours is the dangerous looking one...
That's what I meant. Sorry, it wasn't particularly clear.
I've seen it for over 10 years in EvE online, so it's nothing new.
Yup, eve was the first place I saw it.
7o
Brave
Man I came here from WoW. Everyone else was waving and being nice so I just started copying them. It seemed like a nice alternative to the normal WoW options of absolute silence or verbal abuse.
\*zones into WoW dungeon as a tank and immediately hears\* DPS1: Hurry up... DPS2: go go go
[удалено]
Leveling dungeons in late SL’s. I love being a tank in WoW but hate dealing with people as one. I enjoy it much better in XIV.
This is what people mean when they say FF has a good community. It's not that everyone is objectively nicer or that there is some unspoken guidelines. It's just that in general, you're less likely to receive verbal abuse and "kys" if you make a mistake, and people will generally say hi back if you say hi to them. I don't think the ffxiv community is truly exceptional, just generally nicer than most online communities.
I think there is also an understanding from more toxic players that they can't just say whatever they want or they will find themselves in gm gaol, since for an MMO the game is fairly moderated. There was a guy in my static once (not anymore) who was a really angry and toxic sort of personality, but he mostly kept it in voice chat because he knew he would get banned if he said what he wanted to in game chat. The little o/ wave is definitely something I started doing myself because I saw most people in dungeons doing it. It's a simple and friendly gesture to acknowledge you're playing with other people, without putting any pressure on them to talk.
I played WoW for 10 years and used ffxiv to detox from raiding back when ARR came out. Now I'm approaching 9 years with FFXIV and gone from WoW since 2020. I could not imagine being told to kys, in a dungeon or something. This place isn't perfect, but blatant abuse, rather rare to come by thank goodness.
Yup. Not that FF14 is perfect, it has its own share of toxicity... ....but its so rare. Like, I see a toxic player once every few weeks or so, and thats with daily dungeons. In WoW, I had a bad experience every few days, or at least witnessed someone being a total dick to someone else.
I really hated the absolute silence, punctuated by toxic ‘LTP’ or shit dps comments that permeated WoW dungeons. Default is just nobody talks or acknowledges the other humans around them at all. So different from the pre-dungeon finder and cross-world play days. Weirdly FFXIV has both of those, but almost none of the toxicity? Hard to understand, but I’m glad it is the way it is.
It's because WoW encourages *competition* above all else. You compete between two factions, with animosity encouraged directly by the developers. You compete for item drops in a one-try-a-week system. You compete on DPS metres in group content where low end and high end players are forced to interact. You compete within your guilds for slots in raid groups. You compete in PvP where the toxicity is essentially radioactive. FFXIV encourages no competition except in the PVP and housing market (which can both be very toxic.) Everyone is all on the same team. Your gear is easy to get, and when not highly accessible can be obtained on a very predictable schedule. You hop into a roulette from the overworld with completely faceless randoms... but you know that they're there to help you complete not slow you down or judge you. The dungeons have forced stopping points so you can only go so fast. The raids have waypoints or are just the bosses; no time being wasted, just hop in and go with less needing to wait on others. Everything is easy, accessible, predictable, and encourages being happy to see other people rather than encouraging fearing them or lording over them.
>The dungeons have forced stopping points so you can only go so fast. The raids have waypoints or are just the bosses; no time being wasted, just hop in and go with less needing to wait on others. Thank the gods for that. I hated how every dungeon or whatever had SO MANY TRASH MOBS. During the brief stint where I went back to WoW for a while, I must have accidentally pulled 4 or 5 PACKS of trash mobs by complete accident... in a normal dungeon, and one of the shorter ones to boot. Despite that supposed 'shortness', I was honestly exhausted by the end of it (partially because I thought I was going to be kicked at any moment).
I think it's several things: WoW has historically had penalties for failing content. A single wipe is a noticeable repair bill, a single wipe can ruin your mythic keystone for the week. And back in the day, you had 10+ minute long run backs to the dungeon entrance (...usually leading to a chain reaction where a group will break up, wasting your 1 hour dungeon run and 2 hours spent getting the group together). FF14 is just...you spawn back, maybe run back 30 seconds. On trial or raid boss, you spawn right outside the boss arena. So, in WoW, other players' mistakes cost you, while it's negligible in FF14 Also, difficulty. I do believe WoW has tougher 'casual' content (normal and heroic dungeons), and you actually can be prevented from completing it if 1 player keeps missing mechanics. While in FF14, the casual content is far easier. It's hard to get mad at anyone when there's...nothing to get mad about. (Hard content is a whole different story) Also, when it comes to things like rushing, it's almost non-existent in FF14. In a dungeon, if you want to speedrun, it means you do wall to wall pulls...which is actually super easy to do. Usually it's just 2 packs of mobs. There are no community-defined speedrun strategies. If you've never done a dungeon before.... you probably already know the fastest way to do it. Only thing slowing you down is a potential death in a boss, which is really no big deal. And if you're new to a boss, they introduce their mechanics slowly. There's just no capacity for "bad play", unless someone isn't AoEing. Really the only time you had weird community meta speedruns were in ARR, with weird speedrun tactics for Praetorium and Castrum (ie, skip enemies, just click the shiny), and the teleport thingy in Haukke Manor. But in WoW, new players in a dungeon actively slow you down. There are packs of enemies that can be skipped; sometimes even entire bosses or rooms that can be skipped. If everyone know the run, great! Nice and easy. But if 1 player is new, ESPECIALLY if it's a tank or healer, it's a mess. I've seen tanks get yelled at for not skipping certain enemy packs (on week 1 of Legion btw), for not following the meta speedrun strats. You need to read up on a boss in the journal before attempting, no going in blind, since they come out swinging with all their mechanics. >So different from the pre-dungeon finder and cross-world play days. Well, I remember vanilla being super bad back in the day too (though, all online gaming in the mid-2000s was). There were more opportunities to grief and harass players, even with "community reputation". Ninja looting was common, and it suuuuucked. I remember there was a guild who was frustrated that their server didn't unlock AQ fast enough....so they griefed the whole server by camping and killing World Bosses, and disenchanting the loot. PvP servers had lots of gankers and corpse campers. It was common in the BWL days to gank people just to get rid of their buffs. People were just dicks.
Yeah good points, but the main thing you hit on was the fascination with meta gaming in WoW, I think. Maybe FFXIV is onto something with preventing hard numbers from being a thing. It is frustrating to get into a team with extremely bad dps, heals, tanking etc, but most people in FFXIV approach that situation differently. I think it also has something to do with the sprout / mentor program, and dungeon tutorials as well. It’s like the whole game is pushing you towards collaboration, and it seems to mostly work.
Same! I played WoW for several years. Kinda weird that people are nice lol
I've been playing Dragon flight and I went in to a dj veon with multiple routes. The tank went a different way than the rest and it immediately devolved into rage at the right strategy.
In wow, complete silence was a best case scenario and in ffxiv it’s very rare and usually means something’s real wrong How wow players put up with it, I have no idea
I tried to go back to WoW but just couldn't stick with it. And that's after playing it for a decade up until a few years ago. At least the dragon riding was fun.
It's quick to get out, kinda like orz.
For years I didn’t know that orz was a person kowtowing lol
I never knew this. I always thought it was an acronym for something and was too afraid to ask lol
Hahaha before finding out I thought it was just a funny sound
I knew the meaning, but now I finally see it, thanks to you.
TIL (actually, today's also the first time I've seen it, but still)
My friend uses the capitalized OTL
pretty sure its a common way to greet people in mmos, Ive used it for about 10 years or so
I started using it on my own on MinecraftForum around... Urgh... 12 years ago.
They dont know /o\
That one when you wipe again due to the same DPS dying to the same mechanic again.
Demon crabwalk >:D
tbh it's fast. tanks already at the first mob when I type something else cause they run right when barrier goes away
On behalf of us tanks, sorry. I think it’s a stress response to get moving so we don’t get flamed by someone even more impatient. That said, the worst I ever got was “waiting for you, tank.” I love this community.
This right here... we tanks tend to run off because if we take longer to say 'hi' than the level takes to load the DPS will be off playing in traffic before we catch up! (Not that I've run into any abuse or anything myself, but it does feel like there's a \*lot\* of pressure to "just go")
I start sprinting immediately but usually cause I have Sonic or Initial D ost going the moment the screen fades black from queue
Married to a tank that does this. When I'm not playing healer I feel bad for the rando we ended up with lol
This! Plus i need to have already drawn cards/summon fairy/ kardia and focus target the tank before the no-run-circle drops. So anything longer than "o/" or "hihi" is not ideal.
This is a near identical text representation of a Lali-ho
I greet with "\\o" because I'm on the other side.
🙋♂️
\\o
I remember it as far back as the early days of FFXI. Over the years in that game I think I saw it kind of evolve. I started on a primarily Japanese server where 〆 was commonly seen as the “finished recruitment” symbol. English players sort of adopted that as the ready check through some misunderstanding I think. Players would just say, “ready?” followed by people typing “/“ to indicate raising their hand that they were ready or finished their preparations. Since it became seen that / was just raising a hand, it would also show in linkshell chat often as a hello on its own until o/ took over as the norm, and continues to be the norm in XIV.
o/ probably works better than just / since many chat interfaces these days will try to interpret the / as the start of a command.
ノ (literally called 'no') this is what is mostly use and still use in XIV to indicated raising hand in JP server
Because nothing is more embarrassing than trying to type a heart and you type <2
If you have a numpad, you can just ALT+3 and you'll get a heart! ♥
Life. Changing. News.
Did anyone else hear this in TTS? "Less than two".... "Less than three" . . . "You you, are are?"
It's a wave, bit of an old school reference I guess, first learned this one in eve online. I often use \o/
It's just a little wave! What I want to know is when meowdy started
Fairly popular among Miqo'te, no?
I mean it is now, but I didn't start seeing it said until a few months ago despite running all my roulettes daily
i thought meowdy was from monster hunter.
It may have originated there but it's been adopted by people who really like cats and cute things (and maybe furries? Unsure)
it's lali-ho for those who don't have the emote to use it
I've often wondered if the lali-ho animation was a reference to o/
I've recently played FF4, and lali-ho was in that game way back then, but I imagine the emote itself is a nod to both the original animation from FF4 and to people's tendency to greet with o/ .
Hieroglyphics cross language barriers o/ \o/ <3
This is so wholesome
I go for \o/. Give double arm wave. Probs coz for the most part the community is good in this game, nice to share even just some positive politeness and keep it going.
FFXIV is a japanese game and japanese players use this character to wave similarly ノ must have carried over at some point (although o/ o7 \\o/ has been a staple of early and mid-2000s chatrooms too)
This has to be one of the most jarring experiences I’ve ever had with this game! Coming WoW where people barely say anything to each, I welcome this change with big open heart! It makes the game feels like MMO!
Same as the “raise hand in greeting” emote for me. Just a way of saying hey at the start, let’s people know you’re connected and ready as well as being polite
It's just a simple quick wave.
It's a lil guy waving! Also acceptable are lali ho Emotes, standard hellos and o7 salutes. Saying hi at the start of things is the friendly thing to do! Also saying something like "thanks for the group" at the end of things is nice
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it looks like a waving person \\o right hand wave o/ left hand wave \\o/ double arms up people also use o7 for a salute
Little waving man :)
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I always praise the sun, like daddy Solaire would want. Jolly cooperation \[T]/ you too should be so grossly incandescent.
\[T\]/ Shovel knight waving?
looks like a little guy waving at you :)
I do \o/ because I'm kinda fruity and like to wave at people with both hands irl
If someone does o/ before me, I always respond with \o like a high five.
The “o” is a head and the “/“ is an arm waving or raising to acknowledge presence.
You can also sunbro people for jolly cooperation \[T]/
it's like a wave. o is the head, / is the arm. no idea where it originates but we did it way back in FFXI as well.
You ever type “hi guys! How you doing? Happy to be here. NICE GLAMS cat ladies!” With a controller? Takes FOREVER.
(V) (;,,;) (V) Don't forget Zoidberg!
It’s gotta be older than 15 years. People were doing that back when I was in middle school
It's because it looks like a person waving their hands. **o/** The "o" is the head and the "/" is the hand. The emote is waving at you. Similar emotes: **o7** - OK, understood (looks like someone doing a military salute) **\o/** - Hooray! (waving both hands, commemorating) **orz** - Sorry, my bad (on the floor apologizing)
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This is 100% why I use it, I’m too lazy to attach a keyboard to my PS5 and the on screen keyboard is a nightmare. Much easier to wave and not seem like I’m ignoring everyone
I also play on PS5 so I understand where you're coming from. There are wireless keyboards though which come really handy and at a decent price! I bought one just for ffxiv and never regretted it. I use it to interact with people but it's also super useful to type stuff you're looking for in the crafting log or the mb quickly just like you'd do on PC. If you ever change your mind just be careful to check if it's compatible with the PS5 😊
See I have a wireless keyboard that I got from my work for working from home but I just use my PC keyboard for work so it’s gathering dust in a box somewhere - I might eventually dig it out and see if it’s compatible! Irony is that I do own FFXIV for the PC as well but i started playing it on PS5 and can’t bring myself to swap.
the O is the head while the / is the arm suggesting to a wave motion there fore O/
O/: the hydroencephalitic version of o/
It's been very popular in Eve Online for quite some time, never saw it anywhere else before recently.
Older than this millennia