Why is SE promoting Solo-Players so much??

[Fabijansven]

first off english isnt my main language, so sorry for whatever

to me every FF, if off- or online, was always about friendship, helping each other and live your dreams together and i really love that concept.

so why is it that in this ff there seems to be no need of getting together to advance (except maybe NM fights?)?

i know avoiding that ppl cant play because they, for example, need other players to level up is a good thing, but ruining the good old party experience for everyone else is really the wrong way (if its not going to be fixed with the next patches anyways, u know the dungeon stuff...)

in ffxi they added level sync after a long time so there is no huge wait time for players to get partys and it worked (somewhat) and here i think they should really promote party play much MUCH MORE and find a good solution for everyone,
like eerm hmm how bout some sort of guild where ppl can make "party orders" everyone can see them in the menue or anything and everyone joining gets some sort of reward from the guild + increased party xp of course, or something like level sync (only better and different :P) or anything like that, sry im tired lol, anyways be creative!!!)

And only in addition to that there should be the option for people that really dont have that much time or whatever to just get some xp with for example leves here or ballista in ffxi!

In the perfect case i dont want standart party grinding if u might think that, more like some sort of story driven leveling (in good old FF manner), i know thats hard to be done and needs alot of work but hey if ure polishing a rough diamond (is it said like that?) be sure to make it awesome!

Well maybe my wish will be mostly granted with the new patches and this thread is totally useless, but hey i just wanted to hear some opinions and get this out of me

PS: why play a MMO alone anyways? go play something offline...

[Evangela]

I still thinking the November SP nerf patch was a big suicide

yes, when you force people to solo C/Doblyns from r1 to r50 and get more sp than party grinding... it's suicide

[Vicious]

The current state of FFXIV is not how they want it. They are trying to fix it.

[loady]

we need more party play its just fun

[quantumsaint]

I think they can see from FFXI that there was a large divide between the amount of content available, and the percentage of people that actually completed that content. By making soloing viable, they are trying to ensure more people actually experience the game instead of playing for a bit and then quitting because they couldn't get a group to get help for a certain mission.

[Fabijansven]

I think they can see from FFXI that there was a large divide between the amount of content available, and the percentage of people that actually completed that content. By making soloing viable, they are trying to ensure more people actually experience the game instead of playing for a bit and then quitting because they couldn't get a group to get help for a certain mission.

thats totally what i mean with they should be creative with this and promote party play in a very different way than in ffxi in its beginning!

[DNO]

thats totally what i mean with they should be creative with this and promote party play in a very different way than in ffxi in its beginning!

HOW!!!!!???

[Fabijansven]

HOW!!!!!???

did u read my first post here?

how bout some sort of guild where ppl can make "party orders" everyone can see them in the menue or anything and everyone joining gets some sort of reward from the guild + increased party xp of course, or something like level sync (only better and different :P) or anything like that, sry im tired lol, anyways be creative!!!)

In the perfect case i dont want standart party grinding if u might think that, more like some sort of story driven leveling (in good old FF manner), i know thats hard to be done and needs alot of work but hey if ure polishing a rough diamond (is it said like that?) be sure to make it awesome!

and being creative doesnt mean asking others how to do shit lol :P

[TonyMontana]

Both solo and party play are important, some games get it right and some dont.

[Fabijansven]

Both solo and party play are important, some games get it right and some dont.

sry that might sound weird but i think if u do it right there is no need for solo play...

Edit: but i dont think FFXIV will ever be that way