FFXIV's Storyline

[Keith_Dragoon]

I enjoy group content, myself. However, this is Final Fantasy XIV, not XI. I just think we need to concentrate on getting a good deal more content into the game and improving its overall health before we go adding storyline content that requires several people to accomplish. Tons of group-only content only works in a game with a healthy population, and at this point I wouldn't call FFXIV "thriving." But I'm generally on your side of the issue.

Back on topic, I'm definitely in favor of a more involved storyline, and I also agree that you should be able to bring friends along if you want.

True but if they build the game in a way to promote grouping on missions it adds to the games fun factor and more content that you can just afk while NPCs do all the dirty work isn't going to bring anyone back it'll make what small numbers we have shrink, there are plenty of active players on each server, some more then others but people will come back when things get fixed up. Adding brand new AFK missions is not the right path. It may not be XI but it worked wonders for XI's community even when that game was in the gutter like this one is, turned that game from coal to a diamond and I know it can do the same here,

And yet more comparisons between content far into a game's lifespan with a game that's pretty much left the oven before it was fully cooked.

But yes, I see dead people.

I could give an example of mission that was launched with the game and still more engaging then anything we have in XIV cept lvl 40+ faction leve NMs.

[Eolrid]

True but if they build the game in a way to promote grouping on missions it adds to the games fun factor and more content that you can just afk while NPCs do all the dirty work isn't going to bring anyone back it'll make what small numbers we have shrink, there are plenty of active players on each server, some more then others but people will come back when things get fixed up. Adding brand new AFK missions is not the right path. It may not be XI but it worked wonders for XI's community even when that game was in the gutter like this one is, turned that game from coal to a diamond and I know it can do the same here,

I totally agree with you, and you're right that more group-based content actually lends to a better community experience which in turn would probably lead to a higher population.

I guess, ultimately, I'm just kind of a jaded MMO player who has a hard time being optimistic about this sort of thing. I've played too many "dead" MMOs with a lot of content but with no one to do it with, so I've just developed that sort of mindset. We'll see how it goes.

At any rate, I hope you're right, and that this game can turn itself around and become what FFXI was/is.

[Keith_Dragoon]

I totally agree with you, and you're right that more group-based content actually lends to a better community experience which in turn would probably lead to a higher population.

I guess, ultimately, I'm just kind of a jaded MMO player who has a hard time being optimistic about this sort of thing. I've played too many "dead" MMOs with a lot of content but with no one to do it with, so I've just developed that sort of mindset. We'll see how it goes.

At any rate, I hope you're right, and that this game can turn itself around and become what FFXI was/is.

Trust me, I have made minor suggestions that game companies have brushed off as uneeded or trivial and when I finally got enough community supprt behind the idea they added it only to increase the ammount of people playing the game and lessened the people complaining. Not saying I am a pro at suggestions but I have an eye for seeing flaw and filling that in with a good idea, i just can't do it alone and that is why I ask for community feedback/support.

I would creat a topic compiling all my suggestions along with every decent non-biased suggesstion that will benefit the game without doing any harm but even my thread about Linkshell Improvements gets pushed aside by all the topics about how this game is bad or needs XYZ instead of ABC.