Is there any reason to focus on 'solo' players..?

[Dubont]

New players aren't going to know about /l or /sh or /p or macros or anything of that sort. Sure, if you've got experience with these sorts of games you can tinker with it and find out those kinds of things, but for all we know this may be someone's first video game ever. We have to think about those players too, their money helps SE build a better game for all of us.

Oh really? New players won't know? Well...I guess they won't know if they don't actually look at the game. If they just get the game and go "ok, let's play!" and don't look at the site AT ALL, then no...they aren't going to have the slightest clue of what's going on...but SMART people will look at the lodestone homepage and find this...

http://lodestone.finalfantasyxiv.com...e/macro01.html

Your argument is now invalid.

[ARoy]

Let me get this straight.

Your argument is that we're expected to do the equivalent of looking up a GameFAQs guide? And you're telling me to think back to the days of the first games when to get anything like that you had to buy it from a store for 20 bucks?(I can't recall, but was Prima selling game guides back then?)

And you're telling me that my argument is invalid?

And for the record everyone I know who has played that game has complained about how the original FF was like that, and how 80% of that game was wandering around the world map trying to figure out where you are supposed to be next. Everyone.

Dude, 8/10. You're good at pretending to be serious, but I suspected you were a troll from the beginning. I gave you the benefit of the doubt because I've been accused of it when not being one far too much, but this just takes the cake.

To everyone else: thanks for your input, and yes, asking questions is a good thing, and I do a lot of it in game when I've got the chance. But even I would be annoyed to have every level 1 noob running up to me and asking how to get to Camp Bentbranch or Blackbrush and seeing /sh crowded with "Where go 2 by nu armr" would be a nightmare. The NPCs need to handle these most basic of basics, not the other players.

[Rowyne]

Oh really? New players won't know? Well...I guess they won't know if they don't actually look at the game. If they just get the game and go "ok, let's play!" and don't look at the site AT ALL, then no...they aren't going to have the slightest clue of what's going on...but SMART people will look at the lodestone homepage and find this...

The lack of tutorials in FFXIV is a complaint by many players that tied into the game's lack of pick-up-and-play quality and contributed to frustration and bad reviews.

No one should ever be expected to start combing the web to figure out the basics in an MMO.