Make solo versions of raids

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Oh good, somewhere to dump this troll feed I've been carrying.

- MSQ (majority of the game) = single player

Except for all of the parts you need to group up with other people in order to complete, right?

- Open World = single Player

Any MMO open world is singleplayer if you choose to ignore everyone else.

- Crafting = single player

I mean, sure? But good luck making money off of it solely on your own...

- World-in-world content (Eureka & Bozja) = grouped only for convenience or necessity to be able to have enough contribution to get gold rating from Fates = single player

Translated: "Almost strictly multiplayer, but I choose not to acknowledge it in order to reinforce my point"

- PvP …. ….. good one

Translated: "ACTUALLY strictly multiplayer, but I choose not to acknowledge it in order to reinforce my point"

They have already built in NPCs to do 4-mans with and actively encourage to do deep dungeons solo through achievement, in a supposed MMO. This shows how much they think of their own game as MMO.

There's a reason that's an achievement; because it wasn't meant for you to do it like that, but the devs want to acknowledge people who go the extra mile. This is game design 101.

There is no single design aspect that would make you meet friends and/or future guild members the natural way, yet to fully get my moneys worth and finish all content, I have to magically have 7 people, people that I never met because all of the game was SP as mentioned in the first place.

I have encountered dozens of situations where I could have made friends if I wanted to, Diadem chatter being one of the biggest, something that's ACTUALLY majorly singleplayer. Sounds like someone isn't putting in the effort to be social, and is blaming the game because of it.

This might also be the reason why there’s such a thriving RMT business around this game.

Every game has RMT, because it's next-to-impossible to police. WoW, having been around and popular for much longer than FFXIV, never really solved RMT, and had to add the WoW Token as a way to combat it.