Colliseum/Solo Instances

[kikix12]

Good, the way it should be.

You missed the part where they did it month or so later, being carried and continuing on the main quest without ever getting any better...

I enjoy it now the way it is, its why I play online games to group with people. If people want solo content that badly they shouldn't be playing this game, not to say there shouldn't be any solo content but no way as large of a shift as you're suggesting.

So do I, generally. But you see, when most people I meet in random parties don't even respond to a simple hi, when in a free company saying "Hi" on log-in gives me maybe one or two responses even if there are seven or more people on and when the people I am familiar with and thus want to party and play with are around the world with different time zones and their own real lives on top of me having my own, it's nice to have some solo content to do here or there. A game that is rarely played stops being interesting, and this game costing per month (and for me, that's quite a significant amount, I could get two-three games every month just for what the sub costs me) doesn't help it. If I can only expect to play with random-AI "bots" (as that's what most people in duty finder parties are) or for a few hours every couple of days/weeks with people I know, then where is the problem?!

Especially with the DPS queue's being so long, and a lot of play time being even more wasted (unless you are interested in limited few options that can be done while waiting, FATE for example once nearly making me auto-withdraw due to time-out, as I had to change class and managed to do that in the very last second), some valid, satisfying content to go to would be helpful.

No one tells you to do it. There will still be plenty of people that do the group content. I honestly don't know what's with that argument coming so often, when the main content will not lose anything out. One would need to be on a virtually dead server way out of prime hours, and that's really not something I can imagine with how this game solves that by simply cross-world duty finder...


What would be better. A player that quits completely, or a player that still groups up here or there, while soloing otherwise?!

[Soupa]

You missed the part where they did it month or so later, being carried and continuing on the main quest without ever getting any better...

Thats fine, they paid in valuable time instead, during that month a bunch of people moved on to relevant content while they have to play catch up.

So do I, generally. But you see, when most people I meet in random parties don't even respond to a simple hi, when in a free company saying "Hi" on log-in gives me maybe one or two responses even if there are seven or more people on and when the people I am familiar with and thus want to party and play with are around the world with different time zones and their own real lives on top of me having my own, it's nice to have some solo content to do here or there. A game that is rarely played stops being interesting, and this game costing per month (and for me, that's quite a significant amount, I could get two-three games every month just for what the sub costs me) doesn't help it. If I can only expect to play with random-AI "bots" (as that's what most people in duty finder parties are) or for a few hours every couple of days/weeks with people I know, then where is the problem?!

Especially with the DPS queue's being so long, and a lot of play time being even more wasted (unless you are interested in limited few options that can be done while waiting, FATE for example once nearly making me auto-withdraw due to time-out, as I had to change class and managed to do that in the very last second), some valid, satisfying content to go to would be helpful.

No one tells you to do it. There will still be plenty of people that do the group content. I honestly don't know what's with that argument coming so often, when the main content will not lose anything out. One would need to be on a virtually dead server way out of prime hours, and that's really not something I can imagine with how this game solves that by simply cross-world duty finder...

This sounds like you need to move onto greener pastures to improve your FFXIV experience and is more of a community issue then a game issue. As for it being optional that just means no one will do it, look at all the optional content this game has that most people hardly touch.

What would be better. A player that quits completely, or a player that still groups up here or there, while soloing otherwise?!

If said player is soloing constantly and hardly grouping then in my opinion they should quit. I sure wouldn't play this game if I spent the majority of my time alone and I doubt said player would be happy paying a sub fee for playing a single player MMO.