The Solo disease?

[ZephyrAM]

A few things first off no one who plays solo replied my questions. If mmo are not about grouping, then why do developers promote the games as group games, ...

I didn't respond to this so as not to get into it, but put simply, Devs promot grouping because you 'have' to promote grouping in its current implementation in order to get the community to ever do it. Grouping takes more time and effort to put together and go about your task then it does to run it solo, thus if people can solo, they will. There are those who always want to group, however having so many others soloing tends to leave them without members, which is the current danger to the current implementation of grouping/soloing.

Yes, I bolded those bits for a reason. Remove the time and effort from grouping, such as is done on rare occasions in different games and is done here in XIV by way of the Behests, and people will group or solo as they choose.

I say again... grouping is promoted because it 'must' be. What does that say to you?

Play solo means playing by yourself. If your in an LS chating you are not really alone.

Honestly though grouping up or not grouping up don't make people solo or not solo. (I've been sick the last few days and havn't been thinking well or I would have said this. You do not need to be in a group to hang with people. Only if you need to. But if you hang with other peopple you are not soloing. Your just not grouping.

Okay, now you're debating over semantics. This thread was started to discuss the aspect of running solo rather then grouping, which is the actual process of forming a party mechanic supported team. Nothing else is relevant.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

I didn't respond to this so as not to get into it, but put simply, Devs promot grouping because you 'have' to promote grouping in its current implementation in order to get the community to ever do it. Grouping takes more time and effort to put together and go about your task then it does to run it solo, thus if people can solo, they will. There are those who always want to group, however having so many others soloing tends to leave them without members, which is the current danger to the current implementation of grouping/soloing.

Yes, I bolded those bits for a reason. Remove the time and effort from grouping, such as is done on rare occasions in different games and is done here in XIV by way of the Behests, and people will group or solo as they choose.

I say again... grouping is promoted because it 'must' be. What does that say to you?



Okay, now you're debating over semantics. This thread was started to discuss the aspect of running solo rather then grouping, which is the actual process of forming a party mechanic supported team. Nothing else is relevant.

Who said grouping is only about foruming a party. LS are groups... your not really in a "party" with them. And devs ONLY talk about grouping. Is what I was pointing out. They also do not have to promote grouong or soling, just their game. And that was more the devs explaining what MMORPG are. not their game persay. Ask any REAL dev what mmorpg are and the same explination comes up. A game that is about meeting people and going exploring together.


But all in all I'm saying OP isn;t even a soloist. he still in an LS, and he communitcates with ppl. REAL soloist avoid those.