Quote Originally Posted by LisSquid View Post
It's also an mmo. Playing with others is in the genre.
I was wondering just how long it would be for this tired old nonsense argument to surface. I'm actually surprised it took this long. Yes, XIV is a MMO - Massive (yes) Multiplayer (yes) Online (yes) RPG (yes) - It's not a MMPWOMORPG (Massive Must Play With Others Multiplayer Online RPG) game. Casuals, solo players, crafter's, etc interact with players each and everyday - they chat in cities, they buy/sell off the MB, they craft things for ppl, they do FATES's with other ppl.

Go back to what I said about WoW - the most well known and famous "MMO" - the vast majority of it's players played SOLO. The vast majority were ppl who quested, crafted, gathered, chatted in cities, played on the MB, etc while SOLO. Yes there were still plenty who grouped with friends/Guildies for dungeons, some questing, role-playing, etc... but the vast majority of ppl played solo.

You know why WoW was so successful? It's because it combined a known lore franchise, was a continuation of a known game franchise, came from a known & respected company (at the time), and was the 1st major accessible MMO where people did NOT have to group up, they could experience 90% of the whole game without being forced to group up. There is a reason why Hunter's were the highest populated class in WoW for many, many years - this was because it was the simplest class to play, and the easiest class to do stuff solo with... you had a pet to tank mobs, you could keep the pet heal.ed easy enough with Mend Pet, and you could frankly auto-attack and kill mobs.
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Yes I realize/know that ppl are forced into groups throughout XIV to progress the MSQ, as well as to experience side-content. However the fact is the base level of difficulty that they are required to go through for this content is typically fairly easy (yes, there are exceptions). I mean really, it should take an experienced group of raiders all of what... an hour max to blitze through all the normal raids? Oh noes... you have to deal with a *yawn* 1 hour or so. Pffft.

I'm sure I'll get the "You're not reading my post" response. *shrugs* I'm just tired of seeing the nonsense "It's an MMO" rubbish pulled out by ppl pushing for things like harder normal, harder MSQ, locking lore & story behind savage raid content, etc. Cuz yes, it happens just about every time this type of push happens... someone brings out the "It's an MMO, ppl should be interacting and solo is bad / too easy / too frequent / etc!" type of comment.