Give ff14 a single player mode?

[Azurymber]

the game is not failing that bad, its much more popular that it was a year ago. and at re-launch who knows what marketing strategy they will have the. also solo all the quests and you are playing a single player game, a single player game where you can go play with your mates when you want to give single player a break for a bit. the main reason this is a bad idea and i agree with some of the other reply's you have had on this, its better they fix what they got and re-lauch to the masses

im saying implementing this in the first or second expansion. I fully support the game being fixed and tweaked first. This would allow them to re-launch the game AFTER ps3 release to an entirely new population-segment (all the PS3 users who have a ps3 mainly for single player games and dont want to play an MMO)

And all it really would be is an enhanced quest system. It would be identical to making 100 new quests except that it would have new instanced zones, a really good story, cutscenes and voiceacting maybe, 5-10 'bosses', etc. And maybe if you complete it you get a really epic ring or something (kind of like an incentive for the mmo players to do it).

It would also set FFXIV apart from other MMOs. Like if people were looking into it they would see not only can they play an MMO but they can play a full single player game. And even if the MMO part continues to get bad reviews, a really good story in the single player part could get epic reviews (almost every FF does) and attract a lot of players who would eventually decide to continue playing the game in MMO mode.

[grandm]

i don't know i think this could end up being a watered down single player game or a watered down MMO. you can't be all things to all ppl, or u end up being nothing to no1 :P

[Medura]

"Im saying this, im saying that"

till now ive not seen one with the same opinion as you, most peoiple just think of you as annoying.

Come with facts next time, and people might actually listen to you.

[grandm]

you are wrong about them giving money to the japan earthquake fund as a marketing technique. they can have a vote on behalf of the shareholders ( i'm just guessing would be mostly japanesse ) not all things are done for profit some things are done coz its the right to do. and your shares are worth zip if your house has just fallen down

[Azurymber]

you are wrong about them giving money to the japan earthquake fund as a marketing technique. they can have a vote on behalf of the shareholders ( i'm just guessing would be mostly japanesse ) not all things are done for profit some things are done coz its the right to do. and your shares are worth zip if your house has just fallen down

your right.
You can have a board of directors meeting.
But even there, you cant just -give- money away. it has to benefit the company somehow.
In this case the company is located in japan and obviously couldn't function until Japan fixed certain things. so they could justify the donation as "helping to fix the house that just fell"

But the point is, they cant just give money away to be nice. There has to be a profit driven reason. Unless theres like a super majority and even there, you get a lot of complex legal complications.

Otherwise someone could buy 51% of a company, vote to give all the money to their wife or parents, and run the company bankrupt essentially stealing its money.

edit: but the fact ppl know they donated the money shows there -was- a marketing aspect to the decision.

[grandm]

i think the point zenaku was trying to make and still stands, SE is hardly broke tho.

[Azurymber]

i think the point zenaku was trying to make and still stands, SE is hardly broke tho.

oh i wasn't arguing they were. I was saying if they didn't think about profit when they made games they -would- go broke eventually. Like if they spent 100 million making a new kingdom hearts so it would be the most epic game ever, they'd go bankrupt because they could never sell 100mil of it.

Corporations are about profit.... simple as that.

[Shneibel]

the topic go from "single mmorpg" to "prove that SE is not going bankrupt"....gj

note: the one create this thread is trying to hard to prove him/herself is right and heading toward the wrong part to get the thread close

[Akira_Tenshi]

To much work and it will only confuse people. They need to focus on what this game is an MMO and making it a good one. It's to late to add something like that.

[Uki]

SE should try to follow what Sega's Phantasy Star universe did,Single player mode & Multiplayer mode,but that would take lots of time,look at 1.19..we're not going to have the patch until october...and that's only a patch.