Stories that focus on the individual should never require parties.

[Tibian]

I disagree with the OP 100%. A mmo is all about working with others, it is one of the great things in XI. Coming together and beating things you cannot do alone is one of the pillars of a good mmo.

You mean one of the worst things of XI. Party requirements in XI were atrocious.

If you want a Solo focused story go play a solo player game. Not saying keep things large scale partys but the story SHOULD force you to play with others.

Tired of ignorant statements like this. If you want a party game, go play XI. See what I did there?

[Gidonoidon_Sur]

Although I disagree with the OPs premise, one way to interpret this: "we as a community need to do a better job helping other people so there isn't a person shouting for hours for group content." Need to move away from Linkshells and look at everyone as a member of the FFXIV community and we should help each other so we can all experience the content and fun.

There, I tried.

[Elexia]

It is great they lessened the restrictions for a lot of content, but why have them at all? Why do I need 4 people for AV/CC/DH? Why cant i go in solo, why do i need 8 people for Primal, why cant i go in with 2-3 friends?

Answer this: Why should you be allowed to do content solo? Why should you allow people to low man 'hard' battle content? You do know that causes more problems than help, right?

"/shout looking for members, Ifrit/Moogle/Garuda, only need 2 highly skilled experienced players!"

Or in linkshell

"Anyone wanna do Ifrit/Moogle/Garuda? Need 2 people, preferably, double-triple melded gear and x class to 50 with (list of sub abilities)"

Removing restrictions actually causes people to create their own set of restrictions (If you've played any MMO, you can't say you've never seen this happen before.)

[Zezlar]

Although I disagree with the OPs premise, one way to interpret this: "we as a community need to do a better job helping other people so there isn't a person shouting for hours for group content." Need to move away from Linkshells and look at everyone as a member of the FFXIV community and we should help each other so we can all experience the content and fun.

There, I tried.

Couldn't have said it better myself. Also if that content finder is as good as they hope it is. This problem should be eliminated.

[viion]

Answer this: Why should you be allowed to do content solo? Why should you allow people to low man 'hard' battle content? You do know that causes more problems than help, right?

"/shout looking for members, Ifrit/Moogle/Garuda, only need 2 highly skilled experienced players!"

Or in linkshell

"Anyone wanna do Ifrit/Moogle/Garuda? Need 2 people, preferably, double-triple melded gear and x class to 50 with (list of sub abilities)"

Removing restrictions actually causes people to create their own set of restrictions (If you've played any MMO, you can't say you've never seen this happen before.)

Your comment is invalid because it already happens with the current system. Weather restricted or not, people create restrictions for themselfs, eg Job stacking (arch onry, lnc onry, war onry etc....), specific setups and the whole Garuda exploit is proof.

Answered.

[Elexia]

Your comment is invalid because it already happens with the current system. Weather restricted or not, people create restrictions for themselfs, eg Job stacking, specific strategy setups and the whole Garuda exploit is proof.

Therefore, what's the problem with the current system? Restrictions will happen regardless if SE does it or if players does it.

[Gentaro]

I wished they were all party-based, I can play all SP FF games if I want to play alone

[Jynx]

We need a seperate main storyline that uses only PARLEY!

[Andrien]

Solo content is coming. Just deal with it.

[DarthTaru]

How are you going to make "United We Stand" solo content? It's in an open world high level dungeon. You want to eliminate all high level content so you can do it by yourself? What the OP is asking for is ridiculous. To achieve it, the Imperial stronghold would have to be transformed into Toto-rak and where does this leave the VAST MAJORITY of high level players socially adept enough to play in parties?

I hate these forums. I hope SE shuts them down after 2.0 because all they've done is left a minority of casuals under the impression that they can come here and cry about anything, no matter how stupid, and have the game adjusted to center around how much they suck at it.