FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Solo Players

[Souljacker]

Are you kidding? I wish things were MORE soloable, given your skill and build. We have so much forced multiplayer content - things you literally cannot complete unless you have at least 1 other player. Some things you can't even enter without more than 1 player.

There would be so much more interesting challenge if we had real skill trees and could try our hand at soloing bosses and other content designed around parties\alliances.

[AmiableApkallu]

MMO just means more than one person on playing.

"MMO" is more than that. The reason I care about other players being online at the same time as me is because I want to interact with them. If I want to hang out by myself and do my own thing, everyone else could be offline or replaced with NPCs.

I could see how well that go over you go to do a MSQ then get put in a queue for others to join you for it. Pretty sure they lose a huge number of new players from it.

Then I guess I'm the exception that proves the rule?

[TBerry]

The more you want to force players together the more they will repel each other.

[Antharaes]

So you want a single player game with dynamic NPC’s then

Funny to call others childish when you have 14 other mainline FF’s and your response is basically “nuh uh I want this one”

Where in my comment did I say, that I didn't like to play with others ?
Pot calling kettle and all that.....

[Supersnow845]

Where in my comment did I say, that I didn't like to play with others ?
Pot calling kettle and all that.....

So you do like playing with other players but also interacting with said players (which you like doing) is also not a core tenant of MMO’s and shouldn’t be used as an argument why 14’s excessively solo focused experience is becoming a problem

I mean sure, weird stance to take but sure, I guess I assumed in the post because I kinda expect people’s stances to be logical

[Ilisidi]

It's rather disingenuous that duty support and variant dungeon keep being brought up as examples of bad solo player content.

Both leave you the choice to play how you want. You can do MSQ dungeons with NPCs or with other players. You can do Variant dungeons solo or with a group. The choice is yours and now content should offer that choice instead of forcing one play style or the other the choice.

[TaleraRistain]

So if mechanics like the second boss of sorm al or the last boss of sor khai can easily be done with trusts and nothing about the mechanic besides its marker is out of date why did they redo all the bosses rather than change the marker exactly when the dungeon was given trust support

To streamline the dungeons and make things like visual triggers more recognizable and take out some mechs that may have been more obtuse or not telegraphed as well. As I've been running an alt through the modified dungeons, those are the things I've noticed the most that changed. And think about something like Zot. First boss of Zot is a lot more sophisicated than some things we saw in older dungeons that were changed, but while Zot's first boss has new visuals, the general pattern of the telegraphing is the same. Now new players have a much smoother segue mechanics-recognition-wise into the newer dungeons.

[miraidensetsu]

I disagree from that.

Signed: Solo Player.

[ZiraZ]

Remove all solo choices, nuke them from orbit, YP already made the solo experience its called XVI.

[rawker]

Duty Support can stay. I use it if I want to apply what I learned from doing 30-60 mins dummy practice when learning a new job.