Originally Posted by
Apie
I will personally never understand this desperate need people have to play with others. Just because it's a MMO doesn't mean we should have to focus on others to get anywhere. That's old school MMOs and there's a reason MMO's aren't like that anymore, it was a bad system and now it's better. I (like many others) only play this game cause it's a FF game, if I want to be super social, I'll log into facebook. lol We have a couple of people like that in the LS I'm in. We constantly have to tell those people that they content they want others to help with can be done easily solo with trusts. And then they start with that whole "years ago we would have these large groups, blah blah blah." It's call progression, the game no longer requires you to bother others to get things done. I do 99.999999% of everything I do on FFXI is solo and that is 1,000 times better than it was years ago when you would need to bother a TON of people to do the smallest thing. I (and most others that I've talked to) are much happier now with the game letting us do what we want, when we want. I could never even pretend to want to switch servers yet people switch just to join LSs (which can easily end and now you are in a different server in the same situation you were in the previous server.)
My advice to you, see the game as it is and enjoy. If you ever pine for the old days, go into those ffxi private servers that are stuck in the past and you can be reminded of how horrible this game actually was years ago and then you can appreciate the real FFXI. :)