Quote Originally Posted by Callinon View Post
The leveling experience IS a solo affair. Even dungeons are basically a solo experience with 3 other people in the dungeon with you. I've leveled all jobs to 70 mostly through roulettes. Do you have any idea how many dungeons I've done where nobody has said a single word to each other? There's no social experience there RIGHT NOW. So then I ask you, what's the difference if there are 3 people in there who may or may not know what they're doing, or 3 AI-controlled bots in there? Honestly, the difference is probably that you'll get a more consistent performance out of the bots and the social experience changes not at all.
You have literally contradicted yourself here. It's not a solo experience if you are with 3 players... It doesn't matter if they do not talk, you are still playing the dungeon with other players that you wouldn't if it was a solo affair and it still gives you the option to talk to the other players, you don't have that option if you are playing with AI characters.

Also you say that nobody talks to each other but have you even tried to in dungeons? if you talk first generally you will get a response in dungeons and in any other content, if you don't talk players won't reply and that's even outside of dungeons/duty finder content.

Going through dungeons also isn't a social affair as players are there to level their job so if they is no reason to talk about the actual dungeon then players won't talk, this is the same with all the duty finder content in the game they talk about what they are doing. (rarely do players talk about social things unrelated to the actual dungeon/fight)

In general though dungeons are designed to be easy to clear but when you reach a boss or some particular tricky situation that isn't easy to understand players would talk, this is up to the developers because most of the time they give no reason for players to discuss any tactics or mechanics of the monsters as most are easy but if it's not you have to interact and talk to the other players so they understand how to works etc so if "someone" did the same thing with AI characters and got up to a tricky mechanic part, they would have nobody to tell them how it works if they were confused.