Stories that focus on the individual should never require parties.

[viion]

1 Provides no freedom unless you mean freedom to leave people out by choice rather than by design, you're absolutely correct.

Elaborate, i fear you have completely missed the point, but without understanding the thread i guess that's obvious. You should really read the thread before posting.

[Kowen]

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?

High level content should require a group.

Instead, there should be more of an incentive for people to re-do quests like "United We Stand," because right now there's no reason to do them again (other than to just be nice) and people get left behind. It hasn't even been out a week and I've already been having trouble trying to help a friend of mine get through it.

MMO's should definitely focus on multiplayer content, but things that only you benefit from shouldn't require 8 people to complete.

[Andrien]

A lot of console gamers don't play MMO. To attract that large player-base you need to appeal to that crowd. If there is any hope for a successful relaunch on PC, and keeping that promise for the PS3, then they have to appeal to everyone needs.

What FFXIV need is lots of progressing side quest, and storylines with freedom. That is something an offline Final Fantasy is best known for. If they keep that aspect in the Final Fantasy franchise together along with hardcore activities for large group content, then I see no reason to alienate that larger fanbase that is playing on consoles.

[Andrien]

Yes. Yes clearly. Clearly I am new to the MMO world... And clearly being new or seasoned is indisputably relevant to what I said. There is no other conclusion that can be derived from this.

You son, are a winner at life!

Is is not about what you said. It is what about what you mean... Get a clue

[Kowen]

Here's a suggestion:

Have the battlefields give a small Company Seal reward to everyone in the party, as long as it contains at least one person who's beating it for the first time (to make it so a group can't farm the fights for seals over and over again). Have the reward increase proportionately to the number of people in the party who haven't completed it.

[Goufunaki]

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.

And the award for best dramatic performance goes to~


Seriously, lighten up. lol
This isn't a request/petition thread, it's just me sharing how I feel. Everyone's free to not agree with me. No need to take it so seriously.

[Reaujien]

Is is not about what you said. It is what about what you mean... Get a clue

Wow... just... I- I mean, wow...

So what do I mean then? Clearly you know something that I apparently don't - which is what I meant by my opinion. I guess I speak in cryptic terms that even I don't understand...

Darn, another forum cop here - didn't mean to state an opinion that didn't "jive" with you.

Man... let me get out of this ~20% of players who post on forums mess ---___---

[Kowen]

It's a shame that more people don't help with things, but I honestly can't blame them with some of these quests.

I loved the battlefield for "United We Stand," it was probably the most fun I've had in this game so far, but getting through the stronghold first is horrible.

Whichever QA person okay'd putting THAT many hostile mobs in THAT small of an area, on our current god-awful server infrastructure, should be fired.


Edit: Also, we really need to be given reraise or something if we die and get kicked out. There's no way to run away from the instance if you're losing, so if you didn't bring a 9th person to stand outside and raise everyone you're ****ed.

[Andrien]

Wow... just... I- I mean, wow...

So what do I mean then? Clearly you know something that I apparently don't - which is what I meant by my opinion. I guess I speak in cryptic terms that even I don't understand...

Darn, another forum cop here - didn't mean to state an opinion that didn't "jive" with you.

Man... let me get out of this ~20% of players who post on forums mess ---___---

No disrespects but;

It is a damn shame that I have to break down your own words so you can understand your own statement.

Look, I understand that you like party-based content, I like that kind of stuff too, but there is many other MMORPG's that does not incorporate force grouping for everything.

I could attempt to educate you on the finer points of this subject, but it would require monetary recompense on your part.

[C56]

I have to agree with the op, I'm coming back to the game after about a year of not playing, with a fresh character, so it's getting to be a pain to find people to do stuff with. The thing is most people who play seem to be stuck up jerks who don't give a damn if it's your first time doing something and need help.

Sorry I've met a few nice people, but most were jerks, idk what community you people are posting about that wants to make friends and give linkpeals out to everyone, but from my experience most people keep to themselves and look down on new players for being new or trying to be friendly.

The new graphics are gonna draw people in, but the clicky rotten community is gonna drive them away in the long run -_-

Just let us solo so we can just rush threw stuff while we wait for the LFG thing so we can just pug are way threw like in WoW