Future direction of FFXIV

[Nekokaori]

This will not work the way they expect. No one who intentionally avoids MMOs will rush to pay a subscription fee to play ONE game solo. At best it will work like in FFXI where it helped future-proof the lv1~99 grind.
Besides XIV has a lot of combat, dungeon and progression design decisions even in the pre-Endgame range that only works because it's a MMORPG.

u havent played much single players have you? I can name many times in ff history of single player where i had to dungeon crawl/grind to progress better or well ff7 getting all the summons and ultima weapons it worked fine.. plus do i need to mention dark souls,demons souls, skyrim, oblivion etc ...

people need to stop acting like the "mmo" makes it diffrent it doesn't it only means more than one person playing on a server at a time online... really... its annoying acting like the "mmo
matters that's just a tag on the real generic of rpg

not even counting old digimon and monster rancher games where u had to dungeon to progress or u know pokemon games lol