Request: I don't want to solo the main scenario

[Majidah]

ahhhh the old canard of "It's an MMO, you should HAVE to play with other people, if you want to solo play an offline game"

NO! I CAN play with other people, I don't HAVE to, nor should I be REQUIRED to.
Other people are there to accomplish their own goals, if they line up with yours, GREAT!, if they don't I shouldn't have to annoy them with my constant begging. Other players aren't in game for your benefit, they have their own things to do. Sometimes, I have no desire to group up, maybe I just want to chat with my LS and do other stuff, that other stuff should not be relegated to a handful of side quests with no bearing on the story, grinding leves, chopping trees, or grinding a craft, I should be able to actually accomplish something, even things that are important.
Not being able to find people for endgame content... you want to talk about optional, haveing 7/7 ifrit/garuda/moogle/gooblotz, whtever weapons, THAT'S optional.

And no the Main Story is FFXIV, it is what gives structure to the whole thing, What is Eorzea, why am I fighting, who are these imperial jokers...Why do I care at all that they're invading? answering those question is what makes it a RPG
the primal fights and dungeons slot nicely into the main story, they supplement it, the greater context however is to be found within the main story. You cut players off from that because they can't find a group for anything other than the next big NM fight or primal, then the game becomes a hollow shell full of instanced raids and disjointed combat (I thought you wanted this game to have a more FF feel)...Hell even WoW has an over arching main story if you take the time to read quest text.

and even with a content finder... if no is looking for that content anymore, then no one will be on the content finder, and there is the attendant problems with "challenging content" and pick up groups.


and fun fact....I have pretty much hated every Final Fantasy besides XI(with many caveates) and XIV...

See? That's just a misconception.
People think that they are entitled to do group activities on their own with the same ease as they would be with 7 more people.

Sure, if you are level NINE THOUSAND.

But if you are just level 50, you are going to have a hard time. And you should. You aren't as strong as eight people.

If you don't want to fight the battles just look up the cut scenes on youtube.
Why would we sacrifice strategy and actual gameplay because you want to breeze through the game as if nothing mattered?

This isn't a book, its a game. A MMORPG for that matter. Game play shouldn't be the side dressing.
If you want to play on your own, you better be as strong as 8 people. Not ask for negligible content.

[Pandastirfry]

See? That's just a misconception.
People think that they are entitled to do group activities on their own with the same ease as they would be with 7 more people.

Sure, if you are level NINE THOUSAND.

But if you are just level 50, you are going to have a hard time. And you should. You aren't as strong as eight people.

If you don't want to fight the battles just look up the cut scenes on youtube.
Why would we sacrifice strategy and actual gameplay because you want to breeze through the game as if nothing mattered?

What is a misconception, that I think seeing a story shouldn't take 8 random yahoo's but killing a god should? Weird, I thought it was misconception to think getting the questions of why I should care about the fate of Eorzea should require 7 other people.

Not everything, not even every important thing needs to be group content. And saying "it's an MMORPG" is not a justification it is a crutch for lazy design and artificial challenge in the form or requiring the user to wait until the star align and they luck into other people with the exact same goals.