FF14 Becoming More "Solo Friendly" is bad, Maybe

[SpiralMask]

@OP: i think that making the game solo-friendly is fine, so that people who just want to be here for the (really good) story can do so without any pressures if they want, as well as providing a sort of layer of protection against the game winding down--when expansion 12 comes out and people dont want to boost to level 150 and have no earthly idea what's going on, and all pre-EW content is so ancient that queues are eternally empty (like trying to actually regularly queue for coils right now), or if the game shifts to maintenance mode when the next SQEX final fantasy mmo is inevitably released and the playerbase largely dies out here (barring some catastrophic incident like 1.0). it's a great final fantasy game, full stop, the MMO part is secondary there.

of course the tradeoff there is that it sure does open the door to further disregarding some gameplay issues--queues taking forever because healers not fun and nobody's playing them (or because we hit a 12:1:1 role ratio by expansion 8 and dps are now entirely oversaturated)? just do the content solo! unless you want to solo as BLU, in which case we must politely ask you to leave the building.

[Xavier_Firbold]

@OP: i think that making the game solo-friendly is fine, so that people who just want to be here for the (really good) story can do so without any pressures if they want, as well as providing a sort of layer of protection against the game winding down--when expansion 12 comes out and people dont want to boost to level 150 and have no earthly idea what's going on, and all pre-EW content is so ancient that queues are eternally empty (like trying to actually regularly queue for coils right now), or if the game shifts to maintenance mode when the next SQEX final fantasy mmo is inevitably released and the playerbase largely dies out here (barring some catastrophic incident like 1.0). it's a great final fantasy game, full stop, the MMO part is secondary there.

of course the tradeoff there is that it sure does open the door to further disregarding some gameplay issues--queues taking forever because healers not fun and nobody's playing them (or because we hit a 12:1:1 role ratio by expansion 8 and dps are now entirely oversaturated)? just do the content solo! unless you want to solo as BLU, in which case we must politely ask you to leave the building.

"Really good story"....

Reeaalllyyyyy