FFXIV: No Inter connectivity or Emotional Attachment

[Felix7007]

Like the title says. The game lacks inter connectivity and does not provoke an emotional response from the user.

Right now the game is linear. You beat content to get better items to beat harder content.

No Inter Connectivity

Nothing anyone does effects anyone else (except for the market boards but its a market board. By definition, it must have human interaction and connectivity).
I can kill a fate, kill Ifrit 100 times and become highest rank in my GC..... it will never effect anyone else. Kind of like story mode with an economy right?

No Emotional Attachment

Because there is no inter connectivity where what one or many players do does not effect others, there is a lack of emotional response. No one is taking anything from you. You are not trying to gain resources to survive. What do you care if someone beats rounds 1 and 2 of coil? It doesn't effect you in any way.

The Future

2.1 will bring PVP but I predict it will just be a place where players battle one another to get higher up on the leaderboard in which nothing is gained from doing so except bragging rights. The Devs had mentioned summoning primals and having the whole realm change when one is summoned adding a nice touch of connectivity. (I beat Ifrit and this effects you because when I summon him, the entire realm has fire in the sky).