[Devs] Add high-end content for light party too, please

[BlaiseLallaise]

In the future I'm pretty sure there will be more content for light parties, which from what I remember Yoshida said mostly lowerish - mid level content would be for light parties while high level content would be for full parties, and rightfully so.

I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. In an ideal world everyone who wanted to do high-level content would have access to 7 other individuals at all times. But this is far from ideal. Sure, I would love to have all my friends join up, but I only managed to get 3. So we are automatically excluded from high-level content due to circumstance? That's just wrong, imo.

That said, I agree that the best rewards should be reserved for the harder (full party) content. Yet at the same time there is no reason they can't build a low-man version of high-level content with good loot, though noticeably less so than the full-party content. If other developers can manage to pull off this kind of high-level content balance, what excuse does SE have to be so exclusive?

[Lucifer]

I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree with you on that one. In an ideal world everyone who wanted to do high-level content would have access to 7 other individuals at all times. But this is far from ideal. Sure, I would love to have all my friends join up, but I only managed to get 3. So we are automatically excluded from high-level content due to circumstance? That's just wrong, imo.

That said, I agree that the best rewards should be reserved for the harder (full party) content. Yet at the same time there is no reason they can't build a low-man version of high-level content with good loot, though noticeably less so than the full-party content. If other developers can manage to pull off this kind of high-level content balance, what excuse does SE have to be so exclusive?

You're excluded because...? You can get another person to fill that slot. That's the beauty of an MMO. You have hundreds of people in one server; to accommodate and realize the idea of an MMO.
When I think of an MMO, I think of content designed for many players.
When I turn on my PS3, I play a game alone OR I can pop in CoD and play with 17 other people! That's 10 more people than the required raid party in an -MMO-

Why must the MMO genre be considerate of people who don't know how to work up the courage to recruit people? Why not become part of the community instead of hanging out with your friends?

[BlaiseLallaise]

You're excluded because...? You can get another person to fill that slot. That's the beauty of an MMO. You have hundreds of people in one server; to accommodate and realize the idea of an MMO.
When I think of an MMO, I think of content designed for many players.
When I turn on my PS3, I play a game alone OR I can pop in CoD and play with 17 other people! That's 10 more people than the required raid party in an -MMO-

Why must the MMO genre be considerate of people who don't know how to work up the courage to recruit people? Why not become part of the community instead of hanging out with your friends?

I don't think you get that there are two kinds of people: Those I know and have close bonds to, and everyone else. If I want to just go experience content I can do so with random strangers, sure. But when I want to experience content with my close, personal friends, I cannot do so because there's no way in hell I'll risk ruining that time by adding some random person to fill in the gaps.