The Solo disease?

[thedevilsjester]

I have total respect on your ideals, and I'm the first one who thinks that someone has to play a game like that someone wants.

I'm always by the opinion that Party Playing is great, because you actually have the chance to fight alongside with other players and make fighting a game of strategy and plans. Not counting the bullcrap we often do in parties that make us lose with style and in a funny way =D

Thank you. However do you think that soloists don't do strategy? In fact I have found that you have to strategize more as a soloist because you don't have, say, a tank, and a healer, and all these other roles. You have to be creative and survive as a single entity, which requires a lot of strategy.

I respect your soloist choice anyway. BUT! I only respect you guys if you actually tried to play with a Party and realized that that's not your playstyle. If you didn't, I can't tolerate that and I'll obligue you to play in a party ASAP!

I hesitate to draw a parallel (because I do not want this topic to degenerate), but I do not have to "try" homosexuality, to know that I like heterosexuality better. One does not have to try both sides of a coin, to be fairly certain which side they like best, its a flawed logic. That being said I have partied in MMORPG's for years, whenever I have to, which in FFXI was very often, and I find it to be dull, and with rare exceptions (and I do love the exceptions), full of idiots (who are rude) and children (who don't know any better).

Anyway, an MMORPG is also meant to be played solo-style. It's just that with a group is even funnier! That's one reason on why's it called Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game, because playing with others is funnier than playing alone. That's the concept that I've got from those games.

Multi-player is not a synonym for Groups. I can play in a world with many people (which is one of the things I LOVE about MMORPG's) without wanting to actually "team up" with any of them.

[Renshi]

Thank you. However do you think that soloists don't do strategy? In fact I have found that you have to strategize more as a soloist because you don't have, say, a tank, and a healer, and all these other roles. You have to be creative and survive as a single entity, which requires a lot of strategy.


I hesitate to draw a parallel (because I do not want this topic to degenerate), but I do not have to "try" homosexuality, to know that I like heterosexuality better. One does not have to try both sides of a coin, to be fairly certain which side they like best, its a flawed logic. That being said I have partied in MMORPG's for years, whenever I have to, which in FFXI was very often, and I find it to be dull, and with rare exceptions (and I do love the exceptions), full of idiots (who are rude) and children (who don't know any better).


Multi-player is not a synonym for Groups. I can play in a world with many people (which is one of the things I LOVE about MMORPG's) without wanting to actually "team up" with any of them.

Nah, just think it as a way to figure out more strategies, as when you're in a group you can elaborate those in more ways than you can do in a solo play, but that's not the point.
Uh... you could've used something other than homosexuality and heterosexuality, as I see the level of comparison a little too high to compare it with a threesome- a group party, compared with a group party. Lessee...
Take it like a Mango Cake! I don't like it, and I know because I've tried it (in fact it has a bitter retrotaste that I just don't like).
Anyway, I did that talk about "funnier with groups" because I was in a hurry and had to go to the bathroom, and I've forgot to tell that that's my idea after some experience with MMOs. Yet, everybody has theirs =)

The point is: In every game, you don't have to stand to these kind of rules in order to have fun. Everybody has their concept of Fun, as there's not a common and sensational definition of Fun, and no, dictionaries will not help there.
I like to have fun with groups, you like to have fun playing solo. There's nothing wrong with it and those are two different ways that can lead to Fun =D