Stories that focus on the individual should never require parties.

[DarthTaru]

In FFXI a time came when I decided I needed to unlock sea access. To do this I had to get through the CoP expansion. It was an incredible expansion, both for content and for game lore. I had to go above and beyond to accomplish this and the highs were highs and the lows were lows. Some nights I would have to build a party for longer than I would have wanted to and travel across the world (without instant teleports), overcome difficult situations and all just to fail in the end and have to try again another day. Defeats were sometimes crushing but victories were sometimes some of the great thrills of all my experiences in an MMO.

If FFXI had a forum with whiny casuals wanting instant gratification they would have all been crying to nerf and `make solo` the greatest expansion in the history of MMO's. This is why XI veterans react with a certain hostility to the WoW crowd always asking for easier while at the same time claiming "they don't mind difficult content."
I could solo FFXIV's main storyline quest. I couldn't even come close to soloing CoP. One was memorable, one was completely forgettable.

What the OP is asking for is a content nerf, pure and simple. And why? Because on one night he couldn't find other people who needed it or strangers who didn't sign up to be his personal quest-minions for no reason other than that's what he wanted to do. It didn't work out, that one night, and now he, she, and they, want a game change because of it.

This is probably never going to end. These threads pop up regularly. It's the `casuals` (or just people not that great at the game) who are quick to say "they want content for everyone" but the reality is they don't. They just want everything nerfed. They think they are the bar from which all standards are set.

I imagine once Odin and other open world HNMs are released they'll cry for a nerf. It won't matter that they can do some things by themselves. The moment they see something they can't do, like always, they'll take to the forums and start crying foul, claiming all of these mobs need to be gimped and thrown in an instance that scaled to how many people they have in their party, if any, because "not everyone can have a good linkshell" etc.

In XI the community realized and accepted the fact that it was their responsibility to RISE to the difficulty level of the content. Since the WoW influx, people have decided it's the content that needs to be scaled down to them.

It boggles the mind that after the disaster that was FFXIV 2010 there are people essentially asking to go back to it.

Pro tip: If you can't get people to help you in Ul'dah, go to the dungeon entrance and either follow a full party inside or look for a group of 6 or 7 heading in that you can get an invite from. You know, show some initiative. That or do something else for the night until another opportunity presents itself