After playing FFXI for a few weeks, cant wait for Trusts!

[TroySoFab]

Ok quite a bit to respond to here.

This game already is a great deal of solo play outside of dungeons and raids, much of the early story and various quests throughout flat out ban you from being in a party

Yes, it does. There is plenty of content already in the game to satisfy 'solo' players. Adding a whole other element to this that allows players to solo endgame and leveling content that was once multiplayer only seems counter intuitive to a MMO's design.

And it is easy enough to say "maybe this game isn't for you and you should play something else if you don't want to play a game where the second M means Multiplayer" but /some people/ play games for the story, or for the character creation, or for the ability to feel like they're on an adventure or just in general enjoying a good game.

Its easy to say because it should be commonsense. If I don't like playing with other people, why would I play a multiplayer game? There are plenty of single player games that offer the things you mentioned, and as I stated above this game does give you some solo content.

Saying that people should go play something else if they can't deal with being around others whether it's because of a social anxiety issue or just not really enjoying that for other reasons is basically like telling those people that if they aren't going to enjoy the whole game they can go away because who cares if they enjoy everything else they aren't needed in-game.

Personally I used to use FFXI as my only real way of comfortably interacting with people growing up but ultimately I was always more inclined to play solo at my own pace for the story and character creation, it can be very difficult to go through XIV without a few trusted friends who you don't need to worry about having snap at you during dungeons, and if you don't really have that then what?

I feel as though you are making light of a serious mental illness in the first section here, but your second section basically supports the need for more grouped content so, thanks.

Also, lets say I have separation anxiety or autophobia. Should I expect other single player games to add multiplayer aspects to the game that allow me to play through most of it in a multiplayer fashion?

Why should anyone be excluded from enjoying the parts of a game that they enjoy because they happen to have difficulty with other people? Now, that being said when the day comes when they release FFXIV as a single player offline game I'm absolutely going to buy it, but until then I'd imagine many people will have to cope, so~ giving them a way to play the game fully is quite considerate if they do expand on trusts.

I'll leave you with one last thing here. Say there is an amazing sushi bar in your area, and everyone talks about how great it is. The sushi is delicious, the atmosphere is great, and the service is topnotch. But you don't eat sushi, would you ask the owner to to add hamburger and pizza to the menu?