FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Solo Players

[Tehmon]

Ugh, people. Especially FFXIV people, AND ESPECIALLY those who write on the forums!! I don't want to play with any of you!

Anyway, it is pretty funny seeing people who constantly demean the FFXIV community for being too casual or having a toxic positivity mindset or whatever seems to still want to play with each other lol!

[QiyoJoyo]

I like being a lalafell =,(

[Rongway]

Everyone else here knows what I mean

I promise you the devs won't know what you mean unless you are explicit because the people who translate for them don't always pick the best words if you don't word what you say very carefully. Even then, they will still probably translate it poorly so you do need to be much clearer about what you mean. Cake isn't just trying to be pedantic.

[strawberrycake]

I promise you the devs won't know what you mean unless you are explicit because the people who translate for them don't always pick the best words if you don't word what you say very carefully. Even then, they will still probably translate it poorly so you do need to be much clearer about what you mean. Cake isn't just trying to be pedantic.

I mean the thread is already derailing due to the lack of being explicit. But they wanna be stubborn so.

[Supersnow845]

I mean the thread is already derailing due to the lack of being explicit. But they wanna be stubborn so.

I mean people discussing treatment of lallafel players on a thread about accomodating solo players has nothing do with the OP not being explicit in their wording

[strawberrycake]

I mean people discussing treatment of lallafel players on a thread about accomodating solo players has nothing do with the OP not being explicit in their wording

It does because the person who said that wouldn't have had the basis to say it at all because the topic would have been "FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Single player features in an MMO"

[Supersnow845]

It does because the person who said that wouldn't have had the basis to say it at all because the topic would have been "FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Single player features in an MMO"

The original lala player would have made exactly the same point

“I don’t want them to stop accomodating single player features in an MMO because then I have to interact more with the community which treats lala’s like garbage”

There is no way you can specify the original intent of OP’s point to exclude that comment while still making the same point

[ChrysOCE]

Out of curiosity, what would you suggest as a way to fix the subpar play? We've already had parsers suggested which people did not seem to like so I'm curious what other alternatives you had in mind.

Like, what could SE do to make people want to/force people to play better?

Realistically, nothing. There's no real way to force people to be better, especially if they don't want to.

You could maybe have things hit harder/faster in 80+ normal content, which could push players to be better. But you can still have 1, even 2, player(s) in a dungeon be carried. And there will undoubtedly be howls of protest at making the base MSQ harder.

They could update the Hall of the Novice and introduce Halls of the Experienced/Advanced maybe? Something that shows some relevant/current concepts around higher gameplay. If they agree themselves on what is relevant and "correct".

[SailorCeti]

We need to address the elephant in the room. Not all Lala players are solo players. Many of us play just as much group content as any other player. Our choice in avatar is meaningless. Please, stop assuming all Lala players are introverts. We aren't. I do group content all the time. Also, Lalafell characters represent the adults of their species. Stop attributing human characteristics on to an alien race! They are not human and do not have human biology. The assumptions and complains about Lalafell players (and that's assuming that's the only race play) say more about the complainer than the player. I have characters of several races.

[fantasiaaddict]

Really wish I could just delete this thread.