The Solo disease?

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Kilta, at this point you are just spamming this thread. It's unfortunate that I come back to see nearly twenty pages discussing the same issue as before, which isn't even focusing on the original topic. Looking at the last page right now, seven out of the ten comments are from you. You don't need to post multiple comments one right after the other or even respond to every poster. Please, in the future, put all your thoughts into one post.

Let's move on.

Thank you.

then tell sony to get rid of the character limitation so I wouldn't have to. I only multi post if I can't fit everything. I post from my ps3 because it is the only way I can acess this site. The pc I play ffxiv on is not mine and I only have time ti log on and play.

[options]

But persitent SP games like oblivion are just that. SINGLE player. You cannot talk to a friend in the game world. The person standing next to you is not another person, he's a computer generated character that you cannot interact with other then what the code behind the game allows you to.

Just because a person wants to play their characters solo does not mean they don't want interaction. I for one love getting chatty while grinding away. In fact i am more social when i am playing solo as i can take my time doing all kinds of things. When i am in a group and am more focused on the job at hand rather then the social aspects. Actually i do not get social untill the beginning and the end of whatever we need to kill or what we need to do.

[Bled]

But persitent SP games like oblivion are just that. SINGLE player. You cannot talk to a friend in the game world. The person standing next to you is not another person, he's a computer generated character that you cannot interact with other then what the code behind the game allows you to.

Just because a person wants to play their characters solo does not mean they don't want interaction. I for one love getting chatty while grinding away. In fact i am more social when i am playing solo as i can take my time doing all kinds of things. When i am in a group and am more focused on the job at hand rather then the social aspects. Actually i do not get social untill the beginning and the end of whatever we need to kill or what we need to do.

Back in the day when FF7 first came out me and my friends hooked up multiple TV's in a room so we could all play our FF 7 files, O.o i don't even think people do that any more. IMHO i play Massively Multiplayer games for the epic group content, if i want interaction i call up a friend and we chill while playing games.

Of course though to each their own, i just don't feel that wanting to interact with people occasionally is a reason to play an MMO, I'm more apt to believe the OP's reasoning about the immersion factor of MMO's.

[Leeloo]

Don't talk about Cloud like he's not real!! = (

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Hey options where was you when I typed my more option = more players = more fun topic? I could used ya in there XD. Like I said idm if he plays solo, or they add solo content. But being a group mmo, there will be group content more then solo content (yes there are various styles of mmo: solo, group and social) All three have content that is solo and content for groups. Solo mmo have more solo content, Like WoW. The only group content in that game is bgs and raids. Most everything else is soloable. ffxi was a more group mmo. It did have solo content, but most content was grouped. And second life is a social mmo. It has both but is more about chatting.

ffxiv is trying to have balance between group and solo content. Like levequests can be solo or grouped. From what I seen. Most ppl solo levequests even though doing them as a group was supposed to be more rewarding and fun. And people give the reason "why bother grpuping if it can be solo"

[Bled]

Don't talk about Cloud like he's not real!! = (

This is fully based on my opinion, but if your a true FF fan there is a little bit of cloud in all of us lol

Big ass sword yes please!

[Xandre]

This is fully based on my opinion, but if your a true FF fan there is a little bit of cloud in all of us lol

Big ass sword yes please!

This is just a nice way of saying he's not real.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

But persitent SP games like oblivion are just that. SINGLE player. You cannot talk to a friend in the game world. The person standing next to you is not another person, he's a computer generated character that you cannot interact with other then what the code behind the game allows you to.

Just because a person wants to play their characters solo does not mean they don't want interaction. I for one love getting chatty while grinding away. In fact i am more social when i am playing solo as i can take my time doing all kinds of things. When i am in a group and am more focused on the job at hand rather then the social aspects. Actually i do not get social untill the beginning and the end of whatever we need to kill or what we need to do.

I talk to my ex- b/f while I play over the 360 chat. (and secretely wish for an elder scrolls mmo with its radiant AI and story) But i know that. He didn't say anything about talking to others in is starter post. Just (joke incoming)

[Bled]

This is just a nice way of saying he's not real.

yeah :/ at least we still have santa, i don't know what id do if that jolly man wasn't real.

[options]

Its not just about interaction. Its a persistent gameworld, its to kill shit, its craft, gather, dungeons, grinding, farming and much more. When you finish a SP game it ends, thats it or untill there is an addon or a sequal. An MMO you can keep going. Its a genre and all kinds of ppl play it. And the same person might play it in a different style depending on their mood. I may want to just grind 1 mob one day just to get a specific item off of it, then another day i might wanna group up and do dung runs. Other days i may just stand in the one spot and chat away to friends for hours.

Sure there are other games i can do one or the other and sometimes multiple. But in MMOs i have em all. If an MMO doesn't have want i want to do at the time i am sure there is a SP or MP game that does. My game collection is quite a site ranging across many platforms so i am sure i have plenty to do.

But as i like to play SP games, they usually get clocked in a matter of days, where an mmo can keep me going for a long time.