The Solo disease?

[Frisque]

You're half-right. You didn't talk about being a red mage in this thread, but you have mentioned it in another past thread. (probably multiple)

[Kilta_Firelotus]

You're half-right. You didn't talk about being a red mage in this thread, but you have mentioned it in another past thread. (probably multiple)

I didn't say He has no right to solo and never said he can't solo.
I repeated said I do not mind solo'ers unless they are rude, or effect the game negatively. When asked by what I meant. I did reply to him on what happen to me on WoW. Pretty much idm solo'ers but if an mmo has nothing BUT solo'ers it can be hard on those who group. Or at least is what I meant to say

fyi ffxi is alot more solo friendly now when it comes to leveling they doubled exp and made it so ppl can solo tough mobs. Pretty much I was getting 200-230 exp a kill solo :P

[Xandre]

Kilta, at this point you are just spamming this thread. It's unfortunate that I come back to see nearly twenty pages discussing the same issue as before, which isn't even focusing on the original topic. Looking at the last page right now, seven out of the ten comments are from you. You don't need to post multiple comments one right after the other or even respond to every poster. Please, in the future, put all your thoughts into one post.

Let's move on.

Thank you.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Kilta, at this point you are just spamming this thread. It's unfortunate that I come back to see nearly twenty pages discussing the same issue as before, which isn't even focusing on the original topic. Looking at the last page right now, seven out of the ten comments are from you. You don't need to post multiple comments one right after the other or even respond to every poster. Please, in the future, put all your thoughts into one post.

Let's move on.

Thank you.

then tell sony to get rid of the character limitation so I wouldn't have to. I only multi post if I can't fit everything. I post from my ps3 because it is the only way I can acess this site. The pc I play ffxiv on is not mine and I only have time ti log on and play.

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[Kilta_Firelotus]

ahh ok. That was taken out of context I didn't mean for him to go play sp games. Sorry if it sounded like that . At the time the way it sounded (and still does) is he hates and will refuse to party. To me as well as others stated clashes with the concept of mmorpg. The way he sounded was he was not interested in being apart of the community. And As you can read I did appologies. And did say that my stance was based on experience with solo'ers (not including my solo friends) That the stigma soloers have is due to how rude that sound when Either 1 they find out most content at end game is group based. 2 when asked to party, bluntly refuse in a rude sounding way.

If i was rude, Then I'm sorry. I must been 1/2 a sleep. As i forgot nor seen I wrote that. I prob was sour from reading the OP sounding self entitled.

But he did sort of proved that when people did state they do not mind solo'ers but there will be group only content. Which he started fuming.

[Kilta_Firelotus]

Hey options where was you when I typed my more option = more players = more fun topic? I could used ya in there XD. Like I said idm if he plays solo, or they add solo content. But being a group mmo, there will be group content more then solo content (yes there are various styles of mmo: solo, group and social) All three have content that is solo and content for groups. Solo mmo have more solo content, Like WoW. The only group content in that game is bgs and raids. Most everything else is soloable. ffxi was a more group mmo. It did have solo content, but most content was grouped. And second life is a social mmo. It has both but is more about chatting.

ffxiv is trying to have balance between group and solo content. Like levequests can be solo or grouped. From what I seen. Most ppl solo levequests even though doing them as a group was supposed to be more rewarding and fun. And people give the reason "why bother grpuping if it can be solo"

[Kilta_Firelotus]

(and now the joke since I ran outa room)
FIGHT! FOR HIS RIGHT! TO SO~LO!. (if ppl get the job 10 hugs for you)

I ran into rude solo'ers who only play the game by themselves, they do not talk in LS's, and only ask for help. But when asked TO help. They say no I play solo. Same thing happens when trying to forn groups. It can be offensive to bluntly refuse a party invite by bluntly saying "no i play solo and do not party." (a better reply would be sorry I'm busy) I did also run into many rude solo'ers who did infact HATE how group centric ffxi was and did infact wanted change. (which they got and those who liked group started to leave, at least that was what ppl claim).

All i tried saying is you choose which mmo/mmo style to play. And should reseach what type of content is in the game. Instead of joining an mmo then expect a few things. Like a soloer wanting soloable content that was more for groups. under the guise of "choice". If content can be either solo or grouped ppl will solo it over grouping it.

[options]

But persitent SP games like oblivion are just that. SINGLE player. You cannot talk to a friend in the game world. The person standing next to you is not another person, he's a computer generated character that you cannot interact with other then what the code behind the game allows you to.

Just because a person wants to play their characters solo does not mean they don't want interaction. I for one love getting chatty while grinding away. In fact i am more social when i am playing solo as i can take my time doing all kinds of things. When i am in a group and am more focused on the job at hand rather then the social aspects. Actually i do not get social untill the beginning and the end of whatever we need to kill or what we need to do.

[Bled]

But persitent SP games like oblivion are just that. SINGLE player. You cannot talk to a friend in the game world. The person standing next to you is not another person, he's a computer generated character that you cannot interact with other then what the code behind the game allows you to.

Just because a person wants to play their characters solo does not mean they don't want interaction. I for one love getting chatty while grinding away. In fact i am more social when i am playing solo as i can take my time doing all kinds of things. When i am in a group and am more focused on the job at hand rather then the social aspects. Actually i do not get social untill the beginning and the end of whatever we need to kill or what we need to do.

Back in the day when FF7 first came out me and my friends hooked up multiple TV's in a room so we could all play our FF 7 files, O.o i don't even think people do that any more. IMHO i play Massively Multiplayer games for the epic group content, if i want interaction i call up a friend and we chill while playing games.

Of course though to each their own, i just don't feel that wanting to interact with people occasionally is a reason to play an MMO, I'm more apt to believe the OP's reasoning about the immersion factor of MMO's.