Why do people want solo play in an MMORPG?

[Radacci]

Also i think it would be ridiculous if normal/random mobs were so hard, you must party. Wouldn't make sense, unless there's an army of them, and they are linked. But i think it's fine with raids/instances being party driven, while normal content is soloable.

[Elexia]

Link? Quote? What people are you talking about???

Is FFXIV your first and only MMO?

Some people don't like being forced into social interaction.

Some of those same people like playing MMOs.

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edit: Missed 2 words.

(Personally, I will just wait until friends log in, but I can see why others solo)

Developers trying to pander to Solo only players and group play players ontop of the crowd who craves PvP is why MMOs have been crap lately, because of people who fear spending time in an MMO or doing group stuff throughout rather than just 1% of the game.

Sadly though, Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game dropped the Multiplayer aspect because people who think MMOs should be solo personal playgrounds. So these days, MMOs are more MOGs than anything. Having the option to solo is fine, but developers took that option to being the standard.

Also i think it would be ridiculous if normal/random mobs were so hard, you must party. Wouldn't make sense, unless there's an army of them, and they are linked. But i think it's fine with raids/instances being party driven, while normal content is soloable.

It doesn't make sense to be able to solo most of your gameplay in a MMO either. There's a plethora of offline games that suit that.

[Radacci]

It doesn't make sense to be able to solo most of your gameplay in a MMO either. There's a plethora of offline games that suit that.

it feels like you're a pretty pathetic hero, if you need help to kill marmots, or even goats.
i'm fine with having to get party, to clear amal'ja camp, or FATE, Raids etc; but not standard content...that just feels awkward and pathetic.

[Elexia]

it feels like you're a pretty pathetic hero, if you need help to kill marmots, or even goats.
i'm fine with having to get party, to clear amal'ja camp, or FATE, Raids etc; but not standard content...that just feels awkward and pathetic.

Technically if you go that route you're not even supposed to be touching the fauna around you and heading straight for the bad guy.

[Radacci]

Technically if you go that route you're not even supposed to be touching the fauna around you and heading straight for the bad guy.

*not supposed to*? you could hunt wildlife for food and leather/fur etc. Practice archery on live targets. Everyone start somewhere. Only challenge marmots would offer, is hitting them.

[Shougun]

it feels like you're a pretty pathetic hero, if you need help to kill marmots, or even goats.
i'm fine with having to get party, to clear amal'ja camp, or FATE, Raids etc; but not standard content...that just feels awkward and pathetic.

Yeah I hated that about FFXI. HERE COMES A RABBIT RUN!!!! lol

(Though a part of that problem is the monster choice for higher zones, they could have picked stronger monster and it would have made more sense to run in fear without a group lol)

I imagine a level 50 should be able to solo Totorak though (they can, I hate the forced party limit though - "you need two people" .. what for? I'm going to go bitch slap the main boss with my nuke lol). I dont mind being forced in the party if people are still doing the content, and content finder will help a lot with that - but still it took me 4 non stop hours of shouting for the first baby Ifrit fight to get a group of people (all level 50's but me) to instantly kill Ifrit (cant imagine how long I'd have to wait if the party had a chance of dying because of level sync). At that point SE should just make the boss fight an option to turn into a challenging solo fight (including your pal chocobo).

[Radacci]

Yeah I hated that about FFXI. HERE COMES A RABBIT RUN!!!! lol

(Though a part of that problem is the monster choice for higher zones, they could have picked stronger monster and it would have made more sense to run in fear without a group lol)

I imagine a level 50 should be able to solo Totorak though (they can, I hate the forced party limit though - "you need two people" .. what for? I'm going to go bitch slap the main boss with my nuke lol). I dont mind being forced in the party if people are still doing the content, and content finder will help a lot with that - but still it took me 4 non stop hours of shouting for the first baby Ifrit fight to get a group of people (all level 50's but me) to instantly kill Ifrit (cant imagine how long I'd have to wait if the party had a chance of dying because of level sync). At that point SE should just make the boss fight an option to turn into a challenging solo fight (including your pal chocobo).

agreed, it would be nice if there was more Morbols, Magitech Vanguards, Iron Giants, what-not in high lv zones, rather than lv 55 marmots

Ya i found that annoying too, since i joined game late August; it wasn't until i got into a LS, that i could get into Toto-rak. I was outside waiting, and there was some groups going in, but they just ignore me. I shouted in multiple maps, but no one wanted to come So yah, in such a case i'd out-lv the content, and should be able to solo it.